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UN urges nations to scale up climate change adaptation to avoid major economic loss
Posted on March 25 2021
From CNBC, January 14, 2021 Governments across the world must significantly scale up climate adaptation measures to avoid major economic damage from global warming, according to the fifth edition of the UN Environment Programme Adaptation Gap report. Nations must put half of all global climate financing towards adaptation in the next year in order to...
Climate crisis and economic shocks leave millions food insecure across Central America
Posted on March 25 2021
From UN News, February 23, 2021 Reporting that hunger has increased almost fourfold in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in the past two years, the World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday warned that 1.7 million people are in the ‘emergency’ category of food insecurity, calling for $47.3 million now,...
FROM THE FIELD: Poor and vulnerable bear brunt of climate change
Posted on March 25 2021
From UN News, February 23, 2021 People living in low-income countries are at least four times more likely to be displaced by extreme weather compared to people in rich countries, despite being the least responsible for climate change, that’s according to the UN’s humanitarian office, OCHA. The UN is warning...
Bill Gates: How the world can avoid a climate disaster
Posted on March 25 2021
From CBS News, February 15, 2021 Without innovation, we will not solve climate change. We won't even come close," Gates says. Anderson Cooper reports for 60 Minutes. Bill Gates helped usher in the digital revolution at Microsoft, and has spent the decades since exploring - and investing in - innovative...
The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record
Posted on March 25 2021
From The Atlantic, February 3, 2021 We live on a wild planet, a wobbly, erupting, ocean-sloshed orb that careens around a giant thermonuclear explosion in the void. Big rocks whiz by overhead, and here on the Earth’s surface, whole continents crash together, rip apart, and occasionally turn inside out, killing nearly...
2021 a ‘crucial year’ for climate change, UN chief tells Member States
Posted on March 25 2021
From UN News, February 8, 2021 The world is far from achieving agreed goals to reduce global warming in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the UN Secretary-General warned on Monday in his ongoing bid to secure greater commitment to averting climate catastrophe. António Guterres was speaking...
What climate change will mean for US security and geopolitics
Posted on March 25 2021
From Brookings, February 4, 2021 On January 27, newly-installed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin — having already made history as the first Black American appointed to the role — broke new ground for the Department of Defense. He declared that under his leadership, the department would treat climate change...
Climate change: West Antarctica's Getz glaciers flowing faster
Posted on March 25 2021
From BBC News, February 23, 2021 Wherever you look in West Antarctica right now, the message is the same: Its marine-terminating glaciers are being melted by warm seawater. Scientists have just taken a detailed look at the ice streams flowing into the ocean along a 1,000km-stretch of coastline known as...
Anthropogenic climate change is worsening North American pollen seasons
Posted on March 25 2021
From PNAS, February 16, 2021 Significance Human-caused climate change could impact respiratory health, including asthma and allergies, through temperature-driven increases in airborne pollen, but the long-term continental pollen trends and role of climate change in pollen patterns are not well-understood. We measure pollen trends across North America from 1990 to...
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