USA: Colorado extreme rainfall and flood event of 2013
Like many people around the world I watched and followed the astonishing rainfall and flood events in Colorado in September this year that resulted in at least 10 deaths, damaged some 18,000 homes,...
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Climate Departure: Oceans already outside historical variability as cities...
Climate departure will affect the tropics disproportionately moreResearchers from the University of Hawaii have estimated the year when we depart the climate variability we have historically known for...
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Australia: Unusually early Sydney Bushfires spark debate over climate -...
Bushfire smoke cloud over Sydney. Image: Maarten Danial / FlickrWidespread October bushfires in NSW are unusual, but have happened before, such as in 1991. This year there was an Early start to...
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Super typhoon Haiyan strongest on record with over 10,000 feared dead in...
Super typhoon HaiyanOn the eve of the annual United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) meeting in Warsaw Poland, an extreme weather disaster has struck the Philippines with...
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Philippines negotiator: "time to take action. We need an emergency climate...
Philippines lead negotiator Yeb SanoHalf a world away from the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan, the Philippines delegation is in Warsaw, Poland, for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...
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Poland: Dismay At The Coal Powered Negotiations of COP19
Dismay At The Coal Powered Negotiations: photo by Sarah Marchildon via theverbHosting COP18 in Doha, a city built on oil, was a choice that didn’t go unnoticed for its irony. The fact that Poland, a...
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COP19: Japan's reduced emissions target a setback to climate change negotiations
Japan wins fossil of the day award for reducing targets: Photo: Adopt a negotiatorJapan, the third largest single economy, has announced in the Warsaw climate change negotiations a change in it's...
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Australia: Tens of Thousands rally for Climate Action
thousands rally for climate action in Australia: Photo by TakverMore than 60,000 people are estimated to have rallied or marched for climate action across Australia in a demonstration that a...
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Canadians rally to stop tar sands pipelines and defend a safe climate
Rally against pipelines and tankers in Vancouver: Photo: Mark Klotz / FlickrLast Saturday thousands of Canadians took to the streets marching and rallying for a safe climate, and against tar sands...
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Civil Society NGOs walk out in protest from COP19
FOE climate justice bloc: Photo by Push Europe / FlickrCivil society organisations are leaving the climate change negotiations today on mass. Members from Greenpeace, Oxfam, WWF, Actionaid, Friends of...
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