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Study: Amazon’s Future Capacity to Absorb Carbon, Fight Climate Change May Be Less Than We Thought

...fuels. Its “rate of increase over the past century is unprecedented,” according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is the main driver of climate change. Related on The...

By Liesl Goecker

Adapting To Disaster

When Climate Change Leads to Fear and Migration, Women Bear the Brunt

Migration is a volatile byproduct of climate change, an inevitable occurrence for many farmers whose crops fail to yield harvest due to increasing droughts and floods. When these men leave...

Study: Women Are Going Into Labor Earlier Because of Heatwaves Caused by Climate Change

The full extent of the damage caused by manmade climate change is only just unfolding, but we all quietly agree (mostly) that the planet handed over to the Millennials and...

By Pallavi Prasad

Monolith for End Times

An Indestructible Black Box Will Record How Climate Change Destroyed Earth

...already begun recording data, viewable on the website in real-time. These include every single conversation currently playing out about climate change, atmospheric temperatures, and other climate-related data. The structure’s solar...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Indian Children Will Face Lifelong Health Issues Due to Climate Change, Says Lancet Report

A child born today will have to cope with long-lasting ill health caused by climate change, according to the 2019 Lancet Countdown on health and climate change — a yearly...

Relationship Trouble

Divorce Rates in Albatrosses May Be Rising Due to Climate Change: Study

...shown the extreme weather changes male dragonflies’ wing color, which reduces their mating changes — and in extension, their survival. A 2019 research also found climate change and rising temperatures...

By Saumya Kalia

Emperor Penguins Could Be Extinct by 2100 Due to Climate Change, Scientists Say

...penguins face is climate change,” Jenouvrier wrote in The Conversation. However, it isn’t too late yet. “[Climate change] will disrupt the sea ice cover they rely on unless governments adopt...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Wilful Destruction

Climate Change Has Made 75% of Indian Districts Vulnerable to Extreme Weather: Study

...Indians, suggesting extreme climate events in the future will upend many lives and livelihoods. Extreme weather conditions, like cyclones, can occur naturally, even before the effects of climate change were...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Simulating Sovereignty

Island Nation to Upload Itself to the Metaverse as Climate Change Threatens Existence

...threat due to climate change. “As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation,” Tuvalu’s foreign affairs minister Simon Kofe said while addressing...

By Ananya Singh

Dead Water Bodies

Climate Change Is Making Extreme, Once‑in‑a‑Century Flooding an Annual Event: UN Report

Global warming and climate change are changing ocean temperatures to such an extent that coastal cities could see frequent flooding and cyclones, while also wreaking havoc on marine ecosystems and...

Birds Are Shrinking Because of Climate Change, Study Finds

...examine how climate change affects animals’ migratory patterns or habitat and life cycle timings around birth and migration. However, it is not the only study to examine how climate change...

By Liesl Goecker

Progress Made to Eradicate Malnutrition, Stunting Is Now Being Reversed by Climate Change‑Related Droughts

Droughts linked to climate change can slow or reverse progress made eradicating stunting caused by childhood malnutrition, according to a new study published in the U.S-based journal, Proceedings of the...

Competing For Resources

Earliest Known Human Conflict Was Fueled by Climate Change, Research Suggests

...into warfare, but also show how climate change — that manifests as resource scarcity, flooding, and loss of habitat — triggers conflict and displacement. “These changes were not gradual at...

By Saumya Kalia

Algae’s Sex Lives Could Help Corals Survive Climate Change, Research Shows

...activity of one type of algae could help protect coral reefs from the trials of climate change. Published in Scientific Reports on Wednesday, the study looked at the single-celled algae...

By Saumya Kalia

crawling to life

Climate Change Caused an Explosion of Reptiles in the Past: Study

A long time ago, climate change caused an unexpected change in the Earth’s biosphere: even as other species underwent mass extinction, there was a significant increase in the population and...

By Amlan Sarkar

Trees Are Getting Bigger Due to Climate Change, Shows Study

...million other things, this “bulking up” of trees, too, is a result of climate change — as a consequence of trees absorbing the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, a...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Apocalyptic Haze

How Climate Change Turned the Skies Over Beijing Yellow

...also canceled. Blaming the haze on extreme weather conditions, which have grown more frequent due to climate change, and desertification, Li Shuo, senior climate policy officer at Greenpeace East Asia,...

By Devrupa Rakshit

She's (Not) Like a Rainbow

Fish Communities in Coral Reefs Are Losing Color Due to Climate Change

...complex corals become rarer, on future reefs impacted by climate change, fish communities may become duller,” wrote the researchers. “…as the cover of turf algae and dead coral rubble increases, the...

By Saumya Kalia

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