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Cities across globe switch off their lights to highlight climate change during Earth Hour

Famous buildings and structures have switched off their lights to highlight change during Earth Hour, plunging landmarks in Moscow, Sydney and Beijing into complete darkness.




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Big Brother star Tim Dormer speaks out against climate change amid bushfires

Former Big Brother winner Tim Dormer has spoken out against climate change, amid Australia's ongoing bushfire crisis. 




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JANE FRYER joins more than a thousand climate change protesters in staunchly liberal town of Stroud

JANE FRYER: The Stroud climate change march started yesterday with just one man who arrived early and waited patiently under the anti-slavery arch in this staunchly liberal Gloucestershire town.




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Tropical coral reefs are being transformed by climate change

Climate change and warming seas are severely bleaching tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems.




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Hungry birds are using their brains to beat climate change

Birds are learning new tricks to survive as global warming threatens their habitats, scientists in Canada say.




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Bill Nye warns 'the planet's on f***ing fire' as he calls on viewers to address climate change

In a profanity-laden tirade from one of TV's most famous liaisons of science and learning, viewers were dealt a stark warning about the disastrous effects of climate change.




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Sally Field, 73, arrested during Jane Fonda's climate change protest

The Mrs Doutbfire actress seemed positively thrilled by her own civil disobedience, flashing a smile as she triumphantly raised her cuffed hands in the air.




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The Colorado River has lost over a billion tons of water due to climate change, study finds 

A survey found that the Colorado River's flow has decreased by 20 percent over the past century and climate change is the cause of more than half of the loss, as less snow is falling in the region.




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Climate change could spell the end of the human race 'as we know it', says JP Morgan

The American bank said huge numbers of people may have to leave their countries because of rising sea levels or farmland left barren by sweltering heat.




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Aussie celebrities including Julia Stone and Ryan Fitzgerald call for action on climate change

Asking the prime minister if this is 'the sort of world' he wants for his daughters, the campaigners said the country had been hit by 'unprecedented' disasters.




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German teenage climate change denier Naomi Seibt, 19, known as the 'anti-Greta' will speak at CPAC

Naomi Seibt, a 19-year-old German YouTube 'influencer' claims to promote 'climate realism' over 'climate alarmism' on YouTube. She will be speaking at CPAC in Washington D.C. this week




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Heathrow third runway rejected by court: climate change cited

The government has effectively washed its hands of the battle for the £14billion Heathrow project after the Court of Appeal ruled that it had not yet met environmental standards.




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Council holds referendum on whether to hike tax to tackle climate change

Warwick District Council wants to become carbon-neutral itself by 2025, and make the entire district carbon-neutral by 2030.




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Polar bears are being forced into CANNIBALISM by climate change and humans, scientist reveals 

A Russian scientist reveals the animals are feeding on each other in the Arctic as melting ice and fossil fuel extraction companies are forcing the animals out of their traditional hunting grounds.




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UK's only working sled-dog centre to close 'due to climate change'

The Cairngorms Sleddog Centre, in Scotland, has decided to close its doors after 20 years in business as rising temperatures turn the once snow-covered mountains to a barren muddy landscape.




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MAFS' Connie Crayden won't have children due to climate change

Married At First Sight star Connie Crayden has revealed she will be adopting rather than having biological children due to concerns over climate change.




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Half of the world's beaches could disappear by the end of the century due to climate change

At-risk areas include Surfers' Paradise in Queensland, St Tropez, Honolulu, Copacabana, the Costa del Sol and Weymouth, the study reveals.




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Cuts to air pollution could SPEED UP climate change in the short term

Experts from the University of Reading found that cutting pollution in areas with heavy industry would lead to short term temperature spikes and heavier rainfall.




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Viking's 1,500-year-old arrowhead discovered after climate change melts Norwegian glacier

Climate change has revealed a Viking's missed shot that laid hidden in Norway's the Jotunheimen glacier, a glacier for 1,500 years. Made of iron, it is seven inches long and weighs just over an ounce.




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Holy cow! How feeding cattle seaweed can help stop climate change

Boffins at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation have developed FutureFeed, an additive made from a red seaweed called asparagopsis.




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Climate change is causing more plants to grow in savanna and tundra

An increase in wooded plants in both savanna and tundra regions is caused by increased rainfall and temperatures that can be attributed to climate change, UK ecologists have concluded.




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World 'way off track' in meeting climate change targets warns UN report

A damning report compiled by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation highlights 2019's increasing heat, accelerating sea level rises, and extreme weather.




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Snakes are facing extinction as temperatures rise due to climate change

Global warming makes it harder for snakes to maintain their optimum body temperature, changes their habitats and can reduce food availability.




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Climate change could see up to 1.2 BILLION people suffer from unsafe temperatures by 2100 

Researcher from Rutgers University in New Jersey found that four times as many people will be impacted by heat stress by 2100 than are today.




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Climate change threatens Himalayan goats used to produce world's most expensive cashmere

Pashmina goats, source of the world's most valuable form of cashmere wool, are facing a growing threat from climate change as heavy snows kill the grasses they depend on as a food source.




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New stunning National Geographic images explores aspects of climate change in their new issue

Rachel Carson's bestseller Silent Spring, which was published in 1962, helped to spur an environmental movement. The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970.




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Wings of the nightingale famed for its beautiful birdsong are SHRINKING due to climate change 

This change will make the nightingale's long migrations to Africa more arduous and threaten its very survival, scientists have warned.




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Major UN climate change summit set to take place in Glasgow postponed

The Cop26 meeting was set to take place at Glasgow's Scottish Events Campus - which is being turned into a temporary coronavirus field hospital - from November 9 to 20.




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Britain's water birds have declined by a QUARTER in 10 years due to climate change

Data for the trust's Wetland Bird Survey - which has been running for 70 years - is collected monthly by a network of volunteer across British wetlands.




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Birds are adopting 'extraordinary behaviours' to survive the impact of climate change

Researchers from McGill University, Montreal studied data on more than 8,600 bird species to look at changes in their feeding and hunting techniques over time.




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Hungry birds are using their brains to beat climate change

Birds are learning new tricks to survive as global warming threatens their habitats, scientists in Canada say.




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A 'MEGADROUGHT' is likely to emerge in the southwest of North America driven by climate change

Parts of the US and Mexico have been plagued by a severe drought since 2000, making it the worse one in the past 1,200 years and experts warn it could progress as a megadrought.




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Greta Thunberg says coronavirus and climate change must be tackled together

The 17-year-old marked Earth Day with a live-streamed appeal from Sweden to 'tackle two crises at once', saying the pandemic showed the importance of listening to scientists.




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Jane Fonda treats herself to a martini and fights climate change for the 9 To 5 TikTok trend

The 82-year-old movie star embraced the viral moment by walking people through her daily quarantine routine and encouraging viewers to join in her Fire Drill Friday protests.




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Greenhouse gas emissions drop due to coronavirus lockdowns is NOT enough to stop climate change

The coronavirus has forced the world in a lockdown, resulting in a 6% drop in carbon dioxide levels, but experts warn it return to normal once the global economy recovers from the pandemic.




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Tropical coral reefs are being transformed by climate change

Climate change and warming seas are severely bleaching tropical coral reefs and undoing decades of knowledge about how to protect these delicate and vital ecosystems.




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Climate change could slow down hurricanes by two miles per hour, experts warn

Princeton scientists warn that climate change will slow the movements of hurricanes by two miles per hour, resulting in the storm lingering over land longer and cause more destruction.




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Climate change is slowly killing off the main source of food for crabeater seals

Life for crabeater seals in the Antarctic could get even more difficult in the coming years, as climate change and commercial fishing make krill, their main food source, more scarce.




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Google creates 3D models of five world heritage sites at risk because of climate change

In an effort to preserve the legacy of some of the world's most famous landmarks, Google has announced a new project transform five of the most endangered by climate change into 3D models.




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YouTube reduces conspiracy videos but struggles to rein in climate change denial and more

The study analyzed 8 million video recommendations over the past 15 months and used an algorithm that rated videos on a scale of 0 to 1 for likelihood that it pedaled conspiracies.




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Climate change is slowly killing off the main source of food for crabeater seals

Life for crabeater seals in the Antarctic could get even more difficult in the coming years, as climate change and commercial fishing make krill, their main food source, more scarce.




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Bill Nye warns 'the planet's on f***ing fire' as he calls on viewers to address climate change

In a profanity-laden tirade from one of TV's most famous liaisons of science and learning, viewers were dealt a stark warning about the disastrous effects of climate change.




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Climate change is making sharks 'right-handed'

Australian scientists found sharks incubated in tanks that simulate temperatures in 2100 became 'right handed', preferring to swim to the  right, a process known as lateralization.




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Climate change lets toxic green algae thrive in the Arabian Sea

Shrinking snow caps in the Himalayas are causing the spread of toxic green algae so big it can be seen from space, a new study has found.




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Warming up to climate change


What we do know is that the temperatures are rising and that weather patterns throughout the globe are being disrupted as a consequence, says Fred Pearce, one of the best-known environmental journalists and the author of Global Warming. Pearce recently spoke in Mumbai. Darryl D'Monte chaired the discussion.




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Alert to the implications of climate change


Even as the IPCC's latest assessment speaks of the need for technocratic solutions to the challenge of global warming, the United Nations Security Council has signalled that this will be an issue of importance to questions of political stability and peace too. Gopal Krishna reports.




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When will Indian politics wake up to climate change?


Initiatives that do not factor in climate resilience and related gender concerns cannot address development challenges, but the manner in which state-level climate action plans are being implemented shows these are yet to become electoral planks. Aditi Kapoor reports.




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India's black agenda in a climate change era


In January, the Ratan Tata-chaired Investment Commission green-lighted coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology for India and the goverment appears eager to develop policy to promote CTL. But beyond the pressing demands for energy security and new investment lies a starker reality less seen by the public, notes Sunita Dubey.




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Women along the LoC: Battling climate change and landmines


For women living along the conflict-ridden borders of Kashmir, caught between cross fire and attempts to check infiltration, the threat of landmines is a constant reality, made worse now by environmental degradation. Chetna Verma’s tales expose their rising vulnerability.




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Addressing climate change, the Sikkim way


A new volume that outlines in detail the climate change issues, impact and adaptation strategies in Sikkim could also provide replicable models for other states, particularly in the Himalayan region. Seema Bhatt reviews the publication.