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Ocean seeding fails

Plants have a new date with flowering

Soils are breathing faster

The list of potential carbon emitters keeps growing

Warming up to kill

Deaths, diseases to increase with rising temperatures: WHO

Study links climate change with wheat blast; warns crop yield could drop by 75% in South America, Africa by 2050

Wheat blast-prone locations could increase due to climate impact; global wheat production could drop by 13%

Entrepreneur Nikhil Kamath announces Rs 50 lakh for climate change charity

A recent podcast highlighted global shift in energy system and opportunities it provides to young entrepreneurs

Heatwaves have a cost. Here’s why it’s important to quantify it

Extreme heat is often reported as a “silent killer” because its impacts are much more invisible and silent compared to other natural …

Africa Climate Summit 2023: Renewable energy potential can make the continent energy self-sufficient, says Ruto

Continent’s renewable resources can help other nations achieve their net-zero strategies by 2050

EU climate advisory board recommends reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90-95% by 2040 from 1990 levels

Of 63 scenarios compatible with the target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, 27 had high feasibility concerns  

High Road to Dubai COP28: Seven days later, Agenda for SB 58 still not adopted

Parties and chairs of the SBI and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice have gone back into huddles to decide on the way …

Global heating to put 600 million Indians at ‘greatest future risk’: Study

Nearly a billion people could be protected from dangerous heat if countries manage to contain global heating to 1.5C, the threshold of the Paris …

World’s top 21 fossil fuel companies owe $5,444 billion in climate reparations, study says

Coal India Limited was exempted from paying for damages as India’s Gross National Income per capita income is below $4000, researchers said

After catastrophic drought for 6 years, flash floods in Somalia displace 200,000

Floods by ongoing Gu rains destructed Belet Weyne district, Hirshabelle State and Baardheere in Jubaland State, says UN

April 2023 records great variations in temperatures globally: Copernicus

World’s fourth warmest April; 0.32°C  warmer than the 1991-2020 average

Climate Crisis: Adaptation limit reached in some parts of the world, shows IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report

The report calls for accelerated actions to bridge funding gap, challenges ‘myth of endless adaptation’

Getting out of fossils

Quickly ramping up cheaper finance should be JET-P’s focus so that the new energy future is clean

Coral reefs can adapt to climate change; you must give them a chance

99% coral reefs will be gone by the end of this century if coordinated efforts are not taken

Loss and damage from climate crisis needs urgent intervention from rich countries: UN chief

Comments in light of Pakistan floods; Guterres urges G20 nations to up climate adaptation financing, emissions reduction targets

Bonn Climate Conference begins with tense stand-off on ‘Loss and Damage’

Developing countries complained about inadequate focus on loss and damage and climate adaptation

Heat waves likely to last ‘25 times longer’ in India by another 2-4 decades, says climate report

 The heatwaves will last over five times longer if global temperature rise is constrained to about 2°C, says report launched ahead …

5 days to CoP26: NDCs insufficient, climate finance unmet till 2023

Signals on key issues such as enhanced climate ambition and climate finance point to poor progress

Greta seeks honesty from world leaders at CoP 26

This story originally appeared in Reuters and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global media collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate …

Climate crisis: Deforestation in southeast Asia mountains on the rise

Forests are being increasingly cut down on steeper slopes, which have a high forest carbon density relative to the lowlands 

Five years after Paris: How countries’ climate policies match up to their promises, and who’s aiming for net zero emissions

So far, countries’ individual plans for how they will lower their greenhouse gas emissions don’t come close to adding up to the Paris …