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Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London
Society, Politics & Law

Climate Change, Coastal Erosion and Flooding: The Thames Gateway and London

...change will lead to sea level rises and this will lead to enhanced coastal erosion. Professor David Humphreys explores the challenges that this will pose for the Thames Gateway in south-east England. ...[Thames flood defences at low-tide] Flooding is not new in the United Kingdom. The country has long experienced incidents of flooding around rivers and coastlines....
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How is the IPCC helping scientists talk about climate change?
Nature & Environment

How is the IPCC helping scientists talk about climate change?

Climate change is about massive narrative and minute details. How can scientists help the wider public understand the changing planet?...The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the UN body charged with explaining the changing world - has produced a guide that helps scientists communicate their climate knowledge more ......
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...climate change. Palm oil is also an issue of social justice affecting the livelihoods of local indigenous people, and their cultures that are destroyed through deforestation. When they protest against the continued practice of unsustainable farming, they are thrown in jail rather than heard, because palm oil businesses are protected by local law enforcers and government...
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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...climate change solutions. At COP26, over 100 countries signed a pledge to end and reverse deforestation by 2030. Although welcome, such pledges are not legally binding. The reality is, despite efforts dating back to the 1992 Earth Summit, an agreed International Convention on ending and reversing deforestation has never been reached. This is mainly because of division...
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Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change, sovereign debt and the looming debt crisis in the global south

...climate change are facing the greatest financing difficulties in addressing its impacts. What do we know about how climate change will affect the macroeconomy?...This content is associated with The Open University's Economics courses and qualifications. What is the impact of climate risk on financial sector stability? Will countries facing the greatest ......
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What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...climate change is the result of human activity and that the ‘scale of recent changes across the climate system …are unprecedented.’ United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres2, warned that it is now ‘code red for humanity’ and the time for delay and excuses has passed. But he also pointed out that, although the situation is serious, it is not yet...
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
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What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...changing climate might affect global species, one study is looking at a small mammal - and its smaller parasites - to get a sense of what might be in store for us all...How do species respond as the climate warms? Although most research on Arctic animals focuses on economically important or charismatic species like caribou or polar bears, small mammals, such as shrews,...
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Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change
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Ancient Rain: Historic monsoons could help us respond to climate change

...changing climate says PhD student, Katrina Nilsson-Kerr...[Monsoon in the valleys of Madhya Pradesh, India] The valleys of Madhya Pradesh, India, during monsoon season The Indian summer monsoon represents a significant component of the global climate system, specifically its role in the hydrological cycle during the summer monsoon months of June through to September when...
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