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Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” could make the current global coral bleaching the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes as they cool the oceans. More than three-fifths - 62.9% - of the world's coral reefs are badly hurting from a bleaching event that began last year and is continuing. That's nearing the record of 65.7% in 2017, when from 2009 to 2017 about one-seventh of the world's coral died, says Derek Manzello, coordinator of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch Program. When water gets to...
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Climate change is putting countless marine animals under pressure but jellyfish could actually benefit from warming ocean waters. A study by researchers at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) looked at eight different species of Arctic jellyfish. They exposed them to rising water temperatures, sea ice retreat and other changing environmental conditions through computer models. Scientists found that by the second half of the century, seven of the eight species could expand their habitat polewards under these conditions. Simulations showed that the lion’s mane jellyfish - one of the biggest...
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Airlines have hit back against EU plans to monitor contrails from aircraft, claiming too little is known about their climate impact to regulate them. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it’s too soon to implement regulations as there are still “gaps” in scientific knowledge about their impact. New EU regulations will see airlines required to measure and report non-CO2 emissions from flights from January 2025. That would include contrails, nitrogen oxides and sulphur. Contrails or condensation trails are created when ice crystals form around tiny particles of carbon emitted ...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — South Korean automobile giant Hyundai has ended an agreement with Adaro Minerals, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s second-largest coal miner, PT Adaro Energy, to procure aluminum for its electric vehicle (EV) production. Hyundai and Adaro Minerals signed the agreement in November 2022, and at the end of 2023, both agreed not to renew the agreement and “to explore other opportunities independently,” Hyundai said in a statement. The decision came on the heels of campaigns by K-pop fans who urged Hyundai to back out of the agreement and to avoid sourcing aluminum from A...
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Large volumes of climate-warming gases are being smuggled into Europe from China and Turkey, a new investigation has found. The illegal trafficking is compromising the global push to phase them out, a report by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said this week. These hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), described by the EIA as “super-pollutant”, are a group of synthetic gases that are predominantly used for cooling and refrigeration. Although they do not damage the ozone layer like other banned refrigerants, their impact on global warming can be up to thousands of times greater th...
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In the next couple of years, everyone on Earth will lose a second of time but when exactly this happens is now being influenced by human-driven climate change. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad faster than it used to. Clocks may have to skip a second - called a "negative leap second" - around 2029, a study in the journal Nature said Wednesday. Without global warming, however, this time change would likely have happened three years earlier in 2026. "This is an unprecedent...
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Tree-planting is often hailed as a way to fight climate change. But a new study reveals that it might actually be warming up the planet. Trees are known for their ability to soak up planet-heating carbon dioxide. That means planting saplings to boost forest cover is seen as an important tool in the fight against global warming. However, a new study published in the Nature Communications journal has found that these tactics could be causing damage alongside their positive effects. Researchers have discovered that, in a number of cases, too many trees in one area means that less sunlight is refl...
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Increased average temperatures could drive up annual food inflation by up to 3.2% per year and overall inflation by up to 1.18% per year by 2035, according to a fresh study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). In the study, the scientists looked at how climate factors such as high temperatures and extreme rainfall have affected inflation in historical data, but they did not take a separate look at which food items were likely to be most affected. "Looking at over 27,000 observations of historical data, we found that increases in temperatures can increase food prices, par...
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Governments, regional authorities, the business community and European citizens as a whole must face the fact that, even if world leaders succeed in limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees in line with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Europe must prepare for double that amount of heating. That was the message of climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra as he presented on Tuesday (12 March) an EU strategy for managing the associated risks, a day after the European Environment Agency (EEA) published a first EU climate risk assessment report warning of potentially catastrophic damage to health, property ...
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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is in the grip of a mass bleaching event, officials have confirmed. The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority said on Friday that they have detected widespread damage at the UNESCO World Heritage site. Aerial surveys conducted by the two authorities across two-thirds of the marine park confirmed that a widespread coral bleaching event is unfolding across the Great Barrier Reef. It is the fifth time in eight years scientists have seen extensive damage on the reef. February breaks temperature records for the ...
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