Climate Change

He will tell the conference it is “simply nonsense” that major industry super funds or IFM, which manages industry fund money and is part-owned by industry funds, would make any investments that were not in the best financial interests of savers and retirees. Mr Neal will cite scenario analysis by…

One-third of Pakistan is now underwater. The country is currently dealing with one of the worst floods in a decade, with record-breaking rains leaving 1,325 people dead and more than 33 million without homes. Climate change experts say that these extreme weather conditions did not come out of the blue,…

Water problems as a result of climate change, in the form of droughts and devastating floods, will have dire consequences on African communities, economies and ecosystems.  A report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) found that because of climate change, rainfall patterns are increasingly getting disrupted. As a result, rising…

The U.S. National Science Foundation announces 13 new Partnerships for International Research and Education, PIRE, awards totaling more than $19 million. The PIRE competition focuses on global societal challenges related to climate change and clean energy. PIRE awards are visionary, ambitious, interdisciplinary, use-inspired research projects that require international collaboration. The…

A new report said that rising seas could swallow millions of acres by 2050. File photo by UPI/Gary C. Caskey. | License Photo Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Rising tides due to climate change could flood nearly 650,000 properties and $34 billion worth of real estate along the nation's coasts by…

Artistic reconstruction of the reptile adaptive radiation in a terrestrial ecosystem during the warmest period in Earth’s history. The image depicts a massive, big-headed, carnivorous erythrosuchid (close relative to crocodiles and dinosaurs) and a tiny gliding reptile at about 240 million years ago. The erythrosuchid is chasing the gliding reptile…

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Charlotte Honiat and Tanguy Racine from the Department of Geology pack ice samples in the Tyrolean Guffert Eisschacht for further analysis in the laboratory. Credit: University of Innsbruck Analyzing eight ice caves in four Austrian federal states, a team of geologists from the University of Innsbruck has comprehensively documented the…

Blistering crop-withering temperatures that also risk the health of agricultural workers could threaten swathes of global food production by 2045 as the world warms, an industry analysis warned Thursday. Climate change is already stoking heatwaves and other extreme weather events across the world, with hot spells from India to Europe…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A commentary in the International Journal of Dermatology stresses the need for dermatologists to engage more meaningfully on key climate issues and to move beyond discussions of the skin-related impacts of climate change. The authors note that they and other dermatologists are professionally charged with diagnosing,…