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Greenpeace Activists Slip Through Davos Security To Stage Climate Protest
Greenpeace activists evaded the World Economic Forum's tight security checks on Tuesday, staging a brief climate change protest outside the main hall of the annual meeting in Davos.
Dressed up in dark suits and white shirts, three…
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Earth’s water cycle is shifting dramatically and it’s not good news
As climate change worsens and extreme weather events become the norm of the day, a new study led by American space agency, Nasa, confirms that Earth’s water cycle is shifting in unprecedented ways.
The shift is largely attributed to human…
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Wayanad landslides among 26 extreme disasters caused by climate change: UN report
A United Nations report ranked the 2024 Wayanad landslides among the 26 global extreme weather events caused by climate change.
In July 2024, massive landslides occurred in the Chooralmala and Mundakkai regions in Kerala's Wayanad,…
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2024 Warming Doesn’t Mean Paris Agreement Breached, Need Stronger Climate Action: WMO Chief
The annual warming of 1.55 degrees Celsius recorded in 2024 does not mean that the crucial Paris Agreement has been breached, rather it comes as a stark warning.
That there is a need to step up climate action, said WMO Secretary-General…
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Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting May Intensify Volcanic Eruptions, Study Finds
The melting of Antarctic ice sheets could be leading to more intense volcanic eruptions, with significant implications for Earth's geological systems. As ice sheets reduce in size.
The massive weight they exert on the Earth's crust…
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Fishing Kept Them Afloat For 700 Years. Now They Are Drowning In Debt
For nearly 700 years, the Koli community in Mumbai has been making its subsistence from fishing, the Arabian Sea offering an abundance of piscine riches to enable it to do so. Today, however.
The Kolis - who are an indigenous community in…
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2024 Hottest Year On Record: World Meteorological Organisation
The year 2024 was the hottest on record, a spokesperson for the World Meteorological Organisation said ahead of the release later on Friday of a comprehensive report incorporating.
The findings of several regional climate monitoring…
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Global Cooperation Flatlined, Climate Finance Offers Hope: World Economic Forum
Amid heightened geopolitical tensions and instability, international cooperation has 'flatlined', but positive momentum in climate finance, trade and innovation offers some hope, a Global Cooperation Barometer showed on Tuesday.
Releasing…
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New Study Uncovers Vital Ocean Processes for Carbon Storage and Climate Regulation
Organic carbon preservation in ocean sediments, a phenomenon critical to the Earth's carbon cycle, has been illuminated by new research.
The study explores mechanisms that prevent organic carbon from breaking down, a process vital for…
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Taiwan records hottest year in 127 years amid global heat surge
Taiwan’s 2024 annual average temperature of 24.97°C is the highest recorded since 1897, surpassing the previous record of 24.91°C set in 2020, according to the Central Weather Administration.
Taiwan said Tuesday that this year was the…
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