Climate change refers to a statistically defined change in the average and/or variability of the climate system, this includes the atmosphere, the water cycle, the land surface, ice and the living components of Earth. The definition does not usually require the causes of change to be attributed...
SYDNEY, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- While the threat of climate change poses great risk to public health and the environment, universities in Australia have warned on Thursday that it could also cost the economy billions. In an inaugural collaboration between the Medical Journal of Australia and the T...
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The disproportionate impacts of climate change on the poorest communities are already affecting pockets of the U.S.
But in the United States, everything about climate change is politically divisive. There appears to be little common ground on what causes it, what to do about it -- or even, in the case of some Republicans, whether the problem exists at all. While the president noted that "99.5 percent...
Global warming is the term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere and its oceans, a change that is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s climate. There is great debat...
As climate change drives more frequent extreme heat, this study reveals how global trade has intensified heat exposure for workers. Between 1995 and 2020, labour exposure to extreme heat rose by 89%, with many workers now spending nearly half their work hours in dangerous temperatures. ...
By the end of 2007 the scientific journals Science and Nature both demonstrated the urgency of climate change by emphasizing the importance and necessity of appreciating climate change, its severe consequences, and its anthropogenic causes. During that year the two journals' online news services ...
"Climate change is causing more frequent and intense heat waves that are longer in duration, resulting in nearly 1,220 deaths each year in the U.S. alone," NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said. "Last year was the warmest year on record for the globe, and we just experienced the warmest...