Climate Change

[climatechangebox]

Climate Adaptation Finance Update: MDBs Approve Projects with Co-benefits | News | SDG Knowledge Hub | IISD

[climatechangebox]

[climatechangebox]

Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius days

A new study warns that Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius (122-degree Fahrenheit) summer days under the Paris Agreement targets.

[climatechangebox]

[climatechangebox]

Sardegna, elettricità dalle onde del mare

Finora la tecnologia che sfrutta il mare per produrre elettricità è tata poco sfruttata. Ma secondo uno studio dell’Enea il potenziale è enorme per una fonte rinnovabile “leggera”, decentrata, ideale per le nostre coste

[climatechangebox]

Tropical forests are now emitting more carbon than oxygen, alarming new study finds

So much of the Earth’s forest has been destroyed that the tropics now emit more carbon than they capture, scientists have found. Tropical forests previously acted as a vital carbon “sink”, taking carbon from the atmosphere and turning it into oxygen, but the trend has reversed: they now emit almost twice as much carbon as they consume. Scientists said ending deforestation and degradation in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by 8 per cent.

[climatechangebox]

Hey, politicians! We can totally meet those climate change goals

We have 20 years of carbon emissions at current rates before we need to cut them to zero. So we better get started

[climatechangebox]

HAARP: nella base di Gakona in Alaska eseguito il primo esperimento per creare una Aurora Artificiale!

Per tre o quattro notti consecutive uno scienziato in Alaska tenterà di creare un Aurora Artificiale che potrebbe forse potrebbe essere vista anche nello Yukon, uno dei tre territori del Canada, si…

[climatechangebox]

Factcheck: Climate models have not 'exaggerated' global warming

Carbon Brief shows why media claims that climate models are significantly 'wrong' misrepresent the main results of a new climate science study.

[climatechangebox]

Ecco da dove viene l’ossigeno dell’atmosfera terrestre

Un nuovo studio su Nature Geoscience ipotizza che l’ossigeno fosse già sulla Terra prima di riempire l’atmosfera, intrappolato nelle antiche rocce

[climatechangebox]

Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible

It's still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of the global carbon budget. But it sure won't be easy, and we need to start now.

[climatechangebox]