Exceptionally Strong El Niño Has Peaked but Impacts to Continue
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement of 18 February, 2016, that the powerful 2015-2016 El Niño has now passed its peak. El Niño reached its peak ocean…
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Climate Change Behind Floods in South of England, 2013-2014
Floods which battered Southern parts of England in 2013 and 2014 are likely to have been caused by human-induced climate change. Oxford University recently charged a team of scientist from…
Warmer Seas Speed Up Antarctic Ice Melt and Consequent Rise in Sea Levels
New scientific studies provide a further warning of the increasing vulnerability of Antarctic glaciers to faster melting as temperatures rise in the Southern Ocean, reports Tim Radford for Climate News…
UK Floods – Linking Extreme Rainfall, Flooding and Climate Change
Linking extreme rainfall, flooding and climate change in the recent UK deluges – a report by Nick Reynard, the Science Area Lead for Natural Hazards at the UK’s Centre for…
Antarctic Peaks Reveal Sea Rise Threat
A pioneering fieldwork study of mountain heights and boulders in West Antarctica supports computer predictions that global sea levels could rise steeply by 2080, reports Alex Kirby for Climate News Network.…
COP21 – Paris Agreement Adopted
COP21: “It is rare in any lifetime to have a chance to change the world”, declared France’s President François Hollande as the UN climate talks finally closed. Paul Brown reports…
Which Countries are Worst Affected by El Niño?
BOGOTA, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As world leaders gather in Paris to seek a deal on tackling climate change, millions of people around the world are suffering the…
Nations Most at Risk of Climate Change Urge Lower Warming Cap
Reporting by Megan Rowling PARIS, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Leaders from a group of 43 countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change called on the first…
Climate-Linked Poverty Needs Creative Approach says World Bank Head
PARIS, Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From restoring degraded land to financing hydropower dams and creating jobs for refugees, the world needs to come up with more innovative solutions…
Seychelles and COP21 – “Strong Climate Agreement is Important to Our Survival”
The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report of 2014 predicted that the world’s sea levels would rise between 30 to 90 centimetres by 2100. For the Seychelles,…
Countries Better Prepared for Strong El Niño says WMO
A mature and strong El Niño event, which is contributing to extreme weather patterns, is expected to strengthen further by the end of the year, according to the latest Update from…
Researchers Say Climate Change Will Intensify El Niño Sea Level Extremes
Scientists say coasts and communities in the Pacific region face more extreme weather hazards as climate change magnifies the devastating El Niño effect. By Tim Radford for Climate News Network…
Report – Harder Rains Set to Fall as the World Warms
Scientists pinpoint when global warming emerged – and predict increasingly greater climate extremes in hot, cold and wet weather trends. By Tim Radford for Climate News Network LONDON, 26 September,…
Global Glacier Melt Reaches Record Levels
In the wake of recent glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Pakistan, as well as the recent announcement by IOM that unseasonal snowmelt has resulted in over…
Funding Boost for African Climate Research and Data Centres
The European Union (EU) has teamed up with African governments to fund local climate research centres and help the continent prepare for natural disasters, reports Inga Vesper for SciDevNet. Funding…
Research Says Floods in Krymsk and Sochi a Result of Warmer Sea Temperatures
Research by Russian and German scientists has shown that warmer sea surface temperatures can lead to an increase in precipitation intensity – in some cases of over 300% – for…
