Climate change

Environment Lead Story News A man stands at a dried-up bed of a reservoir in a village in Dandong, part of China’s Liaoning province, on 3 July 2017. (Photo: Reuters) By THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION 14 July 2017 Print Email Tweet Email This Story : Climate change will bring soaring temperatures, more intense storms, erratic rainfall, plummeting crop yields and a collapse of coral reefs to the Asia-Pacific unless countries fully implement their commitments under the Paris climate pact, scientists said on Friday, calling the challenges “unprecedented.” The region’s future growth and security — as well as the welfare of hundreds of millions of people — are at stake, said a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). “Countries in Asia and the Pacific are at the highest risk of plummeting into deeper poverty — and disaster — if … [Read more...] about Asia faces disaster from soaring temps if climate change unchecked

Young people here are being challenged to capture images on how climate change is affecting the nation through a recently-launched photo and video competition. The competition targets people between the ages of six and thirty years and aims to create a video or a photo indicating how climate changes is seen through their eyes. It is a part of a larger climate change public education campaign themed, “The Climate is Changing, SVG is Changing.” Nyasha Hamilton, Environmental Educator and national climate change focal point emphasized that, public awareness and public education is an important part of the push to integrate climate change considerations into every aspect of life of the Vincentian populace and it’s good to begin with young people. The competition runs from 1st March to 30th April 2018 and is being organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Japan Caribbean Climate Change Partnership and this country’s government. … [Read more...] about Climate Change Photo and Video Competition

Unmitigated climate change will make much of the United States poorer and generally exacerbate rising wealth inequalities, according to a new study. For every one degree Celsius rise in global temperatures, the study projects that the country will lose about 1.2 percent of its Gross Domestic Product. The economic impact of climate change will not be uniform, say the researchers in this week’s Science magazine, with a few regions possibly experiencing gains. “Unmitigated climate change will be very expensive for huge regions of the United States,” said lead author Solomon Hsiang, a professor of public policy at the University of California-Berkeley, as reported by Reuters. “If we continue on the current path, our analysis indicates it may result in the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in the country’s history.” The study is the first of its kind to put a price on global warming using decades of accumulated … [Read more...] about Study: Climate change will perpetuate U.S. inequality

Disappearing island Share:FacebookTwitteremailGoogle+ Some 1,450 Gunas from the San Blas island Cartí Sugdup, will become the first indigenous community in Latin America to be relocated because of climate change, according to the NGO  Displacement Solutions. The Panamanian state resumed the relocation project in 2017, which began in 2010 reports La Prensa The  Gunas will leave their traditional dwellings of walls of white cane and roof of pencas, on one of the largest islands in the Guna Yala Archipelago by 2019 to about 300 homes of 41 square meters and two bedrooms, with buildings s for cultural meetings of the tribe. The total cost will reach $10 million, according to the government. the exodus is the first of the 40  inhabited islands in the regions 365 with a total indigenous population of  33,109 inhabitants, distributed in coastal lands and islets. The accelerated increase in sea level caused by melting polar icecaps has already disappeared some white … [Read more...] about Latin America’s  first climate  change exodus

Hayhoe's memorable personal background has also helped raise her profile. Texas' most prominent climate scientist is actually Canadian. And she's also an evangelical Christian married to a pastor, details not usually associated with university scientists.Here's what Hayhoe had to say about important climate change issues, including how global warming affects deadly storms like Hurricane Harvey.Reasons for pessimism"Every time a new scientific study comes out these days, it seems as if the climate is changing faster or to a greater extent than we thought before. What we've learned recently is the Atlantic meridional [overturning] circulation has been measured to have slowed down by 15 percent over the century," Hayhoe said.A second study — both were published in the prestigious journal Nature — suggested that the slowing could have been natural rather than due to human impact. Either way, climate change is expected to slow circulation going … [Read more...] about How climate change does and doesn’t affect hurricanes, other worries and a little optimism