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New UN climate chief: 'Action on warming unstoppable'

Posted in Science on 27th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

The UNs new climate chief says shes worried about President Donald Trump - but confident that action to curb climate change is unstoppable.

Banned chemicals persist in deep ocean

Posted in Featured, Science on 15th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

Chemicals banned in the 1970s have been found in the deepest reaches of the Pacific Ocean, a new study shows.

Increacing numbers of people now believe human-made climate change is happening

Posted in Science on 15th Feb, 2017
by Alex Muller

The proportion of people who accept climate change is happening and is largely human-made has risen to almost two-thirds, a survey shows.

As Trump enters White House, California renews climate change fight

Posted in Science on 21st Jan, 2017
by Alex Muller

The state's climate change goals are the most ambitious in North America.

Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year

Posted in Science on 19th Jan, 2017
by Alex Muller

It is the first time in the modern era of global warming data that temperatures have blown past the previous record three years in a row.