Climate Change

How do scientists determine whether climate change is driving extreme weather events like the floods, heat waves and droughts that we’re experiencing today? To find out about the science of attribution, Mongabay’s Kristine Sabillo recently interviewed environmental statistician Clair Barnes of World Weather Attribution (WWA), a global network of researchers that has been analyzing the role of …

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Ethiopia leads Africa’s green fight, planting millions of trees, pushing clean energy and hosting ACS2 in 2025 Climate change poses enormous challenges to the survival of human beings and economic development. The issue has become an important talking point of governments, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), researchers and academics for about half a century. Following the emergence …

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According to a detailed report, the village of Dharali is built on an ‘alluvial fan,’ a cone-shaped landform created by debris from past floods at the confluence of the Kheer Ganga stream and the Bhagirathi River. The devastating mudslide that killed five people and left over 50 people missing as it swept through the Dharali area in …

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The finding has scientists reiterating calls for decisive climate action as they brace for devastating consequences to biodiversity on Heard Island, a sub-Antarctic island and Australian external territory about 4,100 kilometres south west of Perth. The research, undertaken by Monash University-led Australian Research Council (ARC) research centre Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), and published in academic …

Climate change melts quarter of glaciers on pristine sub-Antarctic island Read More »

The Trump administration has announced a plan to scrap a landmark finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to the environment, severely curbing the federal government’s ability to combat climate change. Known as the “Endangerment Finding”, the 2009 order from then-President Barack Obama allowed the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create rules to limit pollution …

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