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Young Americans Hesitate To Have Children Over Climate Change Fears: Study
Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, according to several studies.
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Climate Change Is One Of The Biggest Health Threats Worldwide: Lancet Report
According to the Lancet data, on average, 84% of the heatwave days that people faced annually between 2020 and 2024 would not have occurred without climate change.
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India Saw 20 Heatwave Days In 2024, Most Linked To Climate Change: Report
People in India each experienced nearly 20 heatwave days in 2024 on average, of which about six-and-a-half days would not be expected were it not for climate change, according to a new global report published by The Lancet journal.
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Carbon Dioxide In Atmosphere Up By Record Amount In 2024
The increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year was the highest ever recorded, the United Nations said, calling for urgent action to slash emissions.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef Records Largest Annual Coral Loss In 4 Decades
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say.
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World's Top Court Steps In, Reminding Governments To Tackle Global Warming
The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries.
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India Achieves 50% Green Energy Milestone, 5 Years Ahead Of Paris Agreement Target
India has hit a major clean energy milestone, achieving 50 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources, five years ahead of the 2030 target set under the Paris Agreement.
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June Was Hottest On Record In Western Europe: Climate Monitor
Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, as "extreme" temperatures blasted the region in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said Wednesday.
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Swiss Glaciers Hit Annual Tipping Point Weeks Early
The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland's glaciers has already melted away, a monitoring service said, with Friday marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.
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Climate Satellite MethaneSAT Fails After Just One Year in Orbit
MethaneSAT, a climate-monitoring satellite backed by Google and the Bezos Earth Fund, has failed after just one year in orbit. Launched in March 2024 to track methane leaks, the $88 million satellite lost power in June 2025. Though unrecoverable, mission operators will continue analyzing the collected data to support climate action and emission tra...
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Japan Had Hottest June On Record: Weather Agency
Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe. Japan's monthly average temperature was highest for June since statistics began in 1898.
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Brazil Records 62% Rise In Forest Fires, Amazon Hit The Hardest
Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of the last four decades
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World May Exhaust 1.5 Degree Celsius Carbon Budget In 3 Years: Scientists
If the world continues to release carbon dioxide at the current rate, the carbon budget for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will be exhausted in just over three years, according to an international group of scientists.
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Southwest Pacific Hit By Unprecedented Marine Heat Waves In 2024: United Nations
Unprecedented heat waves in the Southwest Pacific affected more than 10% of the global ocean surface in 2024, damaging coral reefs and putting the region's last remaining tropical glacier at risk of extinction, the UN's weather body said on Thursday.
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'Red Alert': Fire Wipes Out Tropical Rainforest Twice The Size Of Belgium
Loss of tree cover in 2024 -- from deforestation and fires, deliberate or accidental -- generated more than three billion tonnes of CO2 pollution.
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Young Americans Hesitate To Have Children Over Climate Change Fears: Study
Younger generations of Americans are increasingly citing climate change as making them reticent to have children, according to several studies.
-
Climate Change Is One Of The Biggest Health Threats Worldwide: Lancet Report
According to the Lancet data, on average, 84% of the heatwave days that people faced annually between 2020 and 2024 would not have occurred without climate change.
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India Saw 20 Heatwave Days In 2024, Most Linked To Climate Change: Report
People in India each experienced nearly 20 heatwave days in 2024 on average, of which about six-and-a-half days would not be expected were it not for climate change, according to a new global report published by The Lancet journal.
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Carbon Dioxide In Atmosphere Up By Record Amount In 2024
The increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere last year was the highest ever recorded, the United Nations said, calling for urgent action to slash emissions.
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Australia's Great Barrier Reef Records Largest Annual Coral Loss In 4 Decades
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced its greatest annual loss of live coral across most of its expanse in four decades of record-keeping, Australian authorities say.
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World's Top Court Steps In, Reminding Governments To Tackle Global Warming
The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries.
-
India Achieves 50% Green Energy Milestone, 5 Years Ahead Of Paris Agreement Target
India has hit a major clean energy milestone, achieving 50 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil fuel sources, five years ahead of the 2030 target set under the Paris Agreement.
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June Was Hottest On Record In Western Europe: Climate Monitor
Western Europe sweltered through its hottest June on record last month, as "extreme" temperatures blasted the region in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, the EU climate monitor Copernicus said Wednesday.
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Swiss Glaciers Hit Annual Tipping Point Weeks Early
The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland's glaciers has already melted away, a monitoring service said, with Friday marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.
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Climate Satellite MethaneSAT Fails After Just One Year in Orbit
MethaneSAT, a climate-monitoring satellite backed by Google and the Bezos Earth Fund, has failed after just one year in orbit. Launched in March 2024 to track methane leaks, the $88 million satellite lost power in June 2025. Though unrecoverable, mission operators will continue analyzing the collected data to support climate action and emission tra...
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Japan Had Hottest June On Record: Weather Agency
Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe. Japan's monthly average temperature was highest for June since statistics began in 1898.
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Brazil Records 62% Rise In Forest Fires, Amazon Hit The Hardest
Historic forest fires in Brazil last year scorched through an area larger than the size of Italy, recording a burned area some 60 percent higher than average of the last four decades
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World May Exhaust 1.5 Degree Celsius Carbon Budget In 3 Years: Scientists
If the world continues to release carbon dioxide at the current rate, the carbon budget for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will be exhausted in just over three years, according to an international group of scientists.
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Southwest Pacific Hit By Unprecedented Marine Heat Waves In 2024: United Nations
Unprecedented heat waves in the Southwest Pacific affected more than 10% of the global ocean surface in 2024, damaging coral reefs and putting the region's last remaining tropical glacier at risk of extinction, the UN's weather body said on Thursday.
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'Red Alert': Fire Wipes Out Tropical Rainforest Twice The Size Of Belgium
Loss of tree cover in 2024 -- from deforestation and fires, deliberate or accidental -- generated more than three billion tonnes of CO2 pollution.
