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Climate disasters increase risks of armed conflicts: new evidence
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02/04/2020 - The risk for violent clashes increases after weather extremes such as droughts or floods hit people in vulnerable countries, an international team ...
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From forests to peatlands: once lost, ecosystem carbon stores might not be recoverable in time
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01/04/2020 - Huge amounts of carbon are stored in ecosystems like peatlands, mangroves, old-growth forests and marshes, which play a crucial role for our Earth ...
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Regional nuclear war a risk for global food security
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16/03/2020 - Even a limited nuclear war could have dangerous effects far beyond the region that is fatally hit. It would result in global cooling that ...
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Identifiying crises through network connections: Nature Physics publication
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27/02/2020 - From a Wuhan market to Europe and the US: A chain of infection enabled the spread of coronavirus. Trade and travel played the deciding role. ...
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Focus on food to address climate change
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18/02/2020 - Bringing together agricultural production, supply chains, and consumption: In a comment published in the new journal Nature Food researchers ...
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PIK again among the world's best climate think tanks
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31/01/2020 - For 2019, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) was again one of the most influential think tanks in the field of environmental ...
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Buildings can become a global CO2 sink if made out of wood instead of cement and steel
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A material revolution replacing cement and steel in urban construction by wood can have double benefits for climate stabilization, a new study shows. First, it ...
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Climate costs smallest if warming is limited to 2°C
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27/01/2020 - Climate costs are likely smallest if global warming is limited to 2 degrees Celsius. The politically negotiated Paris Agreement is thus also the ...
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Rockström as one Voice of Science at Davos World Economic Forum
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21/01/2020 – After a year of climate change making headlines, the global leaders’ meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, too, has climate change written ...
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Tipping mechanisms could spark profound societal change towards climate stabilization: new study
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21/01/2020 - Limiting global warming to well below 2°C requires a decarbonized world by 2050 at the latest and a corresponding global transformation of the ...
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