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Climate change could create millions of climate migrants by 2050
2 days ago · As seas rise along the coast of Bangladesh, salt water is seeping into farmland, destroying soil fertility. So some farmers and families are moving to the huge city of Dhaka in search of better opportunities. It’s one of many places around the world where droughts, floods, sea level rise, and ...
Climate change made Hurricane Helene and other 2024 disasters …
Oct 9, 2024 · Deadly Hurricane Helene, wildfires in the Amazon, an extreme monsoon downpour in India, a heat wave during the Summer Olympics, and other dangerous and devastating weather events in 2024 were all made more likely and damaging by climate change, scientists have found.
As renewables rise, the world may be nearing a climate turning …
Dec 4, 2024 · Climate pollution caused by burning fossil fuels hit a record 37.4 billion metric tons in 2024, marking a 0.8% rise from the previous year – and dashing hopes that a peak in global emissions might occur this year.. That’s according to the latest annual Global Carbon Budget, which underscores a deeper challenge: the world’s ongoing reliance on coal, oil, and gas, which continues to drive ...
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Climate news to watch in 2024 - Yale Climate Connections
Jan 3, 2024 · Although the clean technology investments were only starting to be deployed in 2023, U.S. climate pollution fell by about 2-3% compared to the previous year and is now 18-19% below 2005 levels. Climate pollution in the European Union improved even more, declining by about 6-7% in 2023 as the member nations accelerated their clean energy deployments — in part to reduce their reliance on ...
How cities run dry » Yale Climate Connections
In April 2024, more than 9 million residents of Bogotá, Colombia’s capital city, were told to collect rainwater – if the city was lucky enough to experience a storm. Fed by the Guatiquía River, the Chingaza reservoir system, which supplies the area with …
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The world just broke a stunning slew of heat records. Why right …
Jul 7, 2023 · Hottest single days globally on record. Drawing on multi-source analyses from NOAA of daily global temperature that extend back to 1979, the Climate Reanalyzer website shows that July 3, 2023, was the warmest single day on record — only to be toppled by July 4, tied on July 5, and broken again on July 6 (see Figure 1 below). The Copernicus Climate Change Project, part of the European Center ...
A major milestone: Global climate pollution may have just peaked
Jul 16, 2024 · Global society may have finally slammed on the brakes for climate-warming pollution released by human fossil fuel combustion. According to the Carbon Monitor Project, the total global climate pollution released between February and May 2024 declined slightly from the amount released during the same period in 2023.Many experts believe that the clean energy transition has reached the point where ...