Climate scientist Michael Mann explains the complex connections between climate change, atmospheric waves, and extreme weather. Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years, a new study has found. It may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer heatwaves, …
Criss-crossing the south of England are the thousands of miles of overhead cables bringing power to homes and businesses. Keeping those lines clear of trees and vegetation is a never ending task for power distributors like Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN). The company is spending £25m a year surveying and clearing its lines. With …
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Animals are changing their behaviors and bodies in response to man-made climate change. In recent years, some birds have exhibited larger beaks that help them dispel excess body heat. Animals that migrate when the seasons change have been observed to seek higher latitudes. Now, scientists have found that the clownfish, the saltwater fish featured in the hit Disney …
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Global carbon mitigation policies fail to reflect increasing emissions from forest fires, warns UN University paper Canada’s record-breaking wildfires last year released nearly three times more carbon than the country’s entire economy — yet such emissions are barely accounted for in climate policy. Forests and peatlands, long considered among the planet’s largest terrestrial carbon sinks, …
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Fourth most important food crop in peril as Latin America and Caribbean suffer from slow-onset climate disaster The climate crisis is threatening the future of the world’s most popular fruit, as almost two-thirds of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean may no longer be suitable for growing the fruit by 2080, new research has found. Rising temperatures, …
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