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Water Crisis Should be Considered as Critical as Climate Change, Researchers Say

The global water crisis should be considered as critical as climate change, researchers have said. A report from the British Standards Institute (BSI) and non-governmental organisation Waterwise has brought together of several areas of research for a comprehensive analysis of the challenges nations face around water supplies. The research, published on Wednesday to mark World Water Week, […]

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Climate Goals Reported Across Multiple Corporate Sources, Study Finds

The vast majority (96 percent) of companies publish voluntary climate goals, data or metrics in their sustainability or CSR report, though this data is also spread across eight other corporate sources, according to research from the Society for Corporate Governance and Persefoni. The company website is the next-most popular place to publish such information (59 percent), while […]

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Dangerous Fungus is Becoming More Prevalent. Scientists Believe Climate Change Could be to Blame

In 2016, hospitals in New York state identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus had been present in the country since at least 2013. In the years since, New York City has emerged as ground zero […]

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Climate Change May Force More Farmers and Ranchers to Consider Irrigation — At a Steep Cost

The Texas ranch where Gilda Jackson trains and sells horses has been plagued by grasshoppers this year, a problem that only gets worse when the hatch quickens in times of heat and drought. Jackson watched this summer as the insects chewed through a 35-acre pasture she badly needs for hay; what they didn’t destroy, the […]

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Climate Disasters Are Clobbering Local Responders

This summer’s extreme weather onslaught is shedding a light on a nationwide problem: Local governments aren’t ready for emergencies. When natural disasters fueled by a changing climate grab the headlines, the Federal Emergency Management Agency gets most of the scrutiny on the government response. But the feds generally swoop in to aid recovery after the […]

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Climate Change Is Redrawing the Disaster Map

Disasters have no borders, and a summer of unexpected catastrophe across the US shows it. California is notorious for drought and fire, not tropical storms like Hilary that barreled over Los Angeles this week. The East Coast expects hurricanes, not the pollution nightmare triggered by smoke that drifted in from blazes hundreds of miles away. […]

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Associations Call for Tougher Climate Measures Following ‘Inadequate’ Govt Plans

A broad alliance of more than 40 civil society associations and organisations has called on the German government to step-up climate measures as the country is projected to miss its future greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. The Council of Experts on Climate Change yesterday (22 August) said the government’s Climate Action Programme 2023 – which was set to establish measures to ensure climate targets are […]

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Here’s Where Climate Change Could Cause Credit Downgrades

The U.S. and other countries could see their credit ratings tumble in the wake of climate change’s impacts, making their debts harder to pay off.  That’s according to research by Patrycja Klusak, a researcher at Cambridge, and a team of scientists who used AI to calculate the likely impact of climate change on the finances […]

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EU Climate Czar Frans Timmermans Quits Job to Lead Center-Left Coalition in Dutch Elections

BRUSSELS — The European Union’s climate chief quit his job in the EU’s executive arm Tuesday and will lead a broad center-left coalition of social democrats and greens going into the Dutch elections in November. Social Democrat Frans Timmermans, 62, was the only candidate and won 91.8% of votes cast by party members of both groups Tuesday. […]

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Weather That Drove Eastern Canada’s Devastating Wildfires Made Twice as Likely by Climate Change

The weather conditions that fueledrecord-shattering wildfires in eastern Canada earlier this summer – and sent plumes of hazardous air into the US – were made more likely and more intense by the climate crisis, according to a new report published Tuesday. Scientists from the World Weather Attribution initiative – which calculates the role of climate change in extreme weather events – […]

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