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The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Vatnajökull in Iceland: The IPCC says humans are the main cause of recent warmingImage: Andreas Tille via Wikimedia Commons By the editors Summary for Policymakers of the Working...

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Emissions rate puts billion more at risk

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Areas of the Tibetan Plateau, such as the Deosai Plains in Pakistan, could become desertsImage: Kashiff via Wikimedia Commons By Paul Brown An extensive new study by climate...

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Shock outlook for local weather

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A world map of when cities can expect global warming to have a drastic effect on local climates Image: Mora et al, University of Hawaii  By Tim Radford Detailed new research into...

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Stockholm heat toll ‘doubled in 30 years’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Summer 2003 heatwave in London: Cities are normally warmer than the surrounding countrysideImage: Stephen Craven via Wikimedia Commons By Tim Radford Swedish researchers think the...

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Warsaw – Day 2: Extreme weather – who suffers most?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Image: © Marek and Ewa Wojciechowscy/Trips over Poland via Wikimedia Commons By Paul Brown in Warsaw One of the Climate News Network editors, Paul Brown, is in the Polish capital,...

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Warsaw – Day 3: World faces more ‘perfect storms’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Angola’s national tree, the imbondeiro or baobab, helped it through the 2013 droughtImage: Alfred Weidinger via Wikimedia Commons By Paul Brown in Warsaw One of the Climate News...

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Insurance shortfall for world’s poorest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Less-developed societies lose most economically from natural catastrophesImage: UN Photo/Fred Noy By Kieran Cooke People in the Philippines are struggling to rebuild their lives...

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Warsaw – Day 10: Talks falter over climate funding for poor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hurricane damage in the Caribbean: Micro-insurance offers hopeImage: madmack66 via Wikimedia Commons By Paul Brown in Warsaw Today’s report by the Climate News Network’s Paul...

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US taxpayers foot bill for climate inaction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Farmland in Colorado affected by drought in July 2012 (the green areas are irrigated)Image: US Department of Agriculture via Wikimedia Commons By Kieran Cooke In the US last year...

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Natural defences can best protect coasts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jon Woodruff and Christine Brandon survey sediments after Superstorm SandyImage: Courtesy of UMass Amherst   By Tim Radford Many shorelines around the world are at risk – not just...

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Arctic melting ‘affects temperate zones’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bear on the ice near Svalbard: Arctic warming appears to be having effects far to the southImage: Hannes Grobe via Wikimedia Commons By Tim Radford Weather extremes in temperate...

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It’s getting hotter in Oz

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Drought leaves its mark on Australia – as here in 2010, and in subsequent yearsImage: Philip Capper, of Wellington, New Zealand, via Wikimedia Commons By Kieran Cooke As happened...

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Worse cyclones will hit East Asia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tacloban in the Philippines, November 2013: East Asia stands to be worse hit by cyclonesImage: Trocaire from Ireland via Wikimedia Commons By Kieran Cooke Hundreds of thousands of...

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Warming ‘will double extreme El Niños’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A NOAA vessel services a buoy used to measure ocean temperatures and provide warning of El NiñosImage: Courtesy of NOAA/US Dept of Commerce By Tim Radford Rising global...

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Penguins feel climate change’s impacts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Adélie penguin chicks chase an adult in the hope of finding foodImage: Liam Quinn from Canada via Wikimedia Commons By Tim Radford Scientists have identified climate change as...

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Drought intensifies in western US

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Low water in California’s San Gabriel dam after two years of droughtImage: Shannon1 via Wikimedia Commons By Kieran Cooke In recent days California has announced its most severe...

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Oxford breaks 247-year rainfall record

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE By Ian Curtis Large parts of England have just emerged from their wettest January since records began in 1910. But one city in the English Midlands, though its total rainfall did...

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Evidence ‘suggests climate change is worsening UK winter’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Flooding on the Somerset Levels in the West of England: Parts have been under water for weeksImage: Nigel Mykura via Wikimedia Commons By Alex Kirby Scientists at the UK Met...

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Coastal flooding ‘may cost $100,000 bn a year by 2100′

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The only way is up: A rapid start on cutting emissions is essentialImage: Jan Smith via Wikimedia Commons By Tim Radford On the world’s present course, the cost by 2100 of...

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If it walks like a duck, it probably is climate change

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The morning after the storm: Aberystwyth in west Wales has borne the brunt this turbulent winterImage: Ian Capper via Wikimedia Commons By Phil Rothwell As debate rages over the...

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