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Minnesota scientists test global warming worst case scenarios

One of the largest climate-change experiments on the planet is underway in Minnesota. Researchers in the US are trying global to understand how it will affect the region’s nature and wildlife. Al Jazeera’s John Hendren reports from Minnesota, the United States. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us …

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Iraq: Climate change endangers fisheries & aquaculture activities

Iraq: Climate change endangers fisheries & aquaculture activities

Fish farming communities in Iraq are seeing a decline in their harvests for the second year. Climate change is also taking a toll on the inland fishing industry. The city’s catch is down from 2,000 tonnes in 2018 to just 700 this year, as a result of drought. Al Jazeera’s …

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How climate activists are forcing systems change through the courts | earthrise

How climate activists are forcing systems change through the courts | earthrise

In this series of earthrise, we meet some of the people calling for systems change in the absence of meaningful global action on the climate crisis.   Law is becoming a powerful tool for climate action. In this episode, we highlight some historic cases in which citizens and campaigners took …

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Climate change threatens food stocks for millions in Madagascar

Climate change threatens food stocks for millions in Madagascar

A continuing drought and rising temperatures are wrecking food crops in Madagascar, warn climate scientists. That is causing people from the south to flee to the coast, putting pressure on the already strained resources. Al Jazeera’s @NickClark reports from Belo sur Mer, Madagascar. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – …

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Climate change and deforestation threatens Madagascar's biodiversity

Climate change and deforestation threatens Madagascar's biodiversity

Madagascar is a unique biodiversity hotspot. More than 80 percent of the flora and fauna can only be found on the island. However, many of these species are under threat from climate change, deforestation, hunting and illegal trade in wildlife. Al Jazeera’s Nick Clark reports from Morondava, Madagascar. Subscribe to …

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United Nations: Climate change and conflict take centre stage

United Nations: Climate change and conflict take centre stage

With nearly all the world’s leaders in London for the queen’s funeral, it was an unusual start to this year’s United Nations General Assembly in New York City. But with crises ranging from the war in Ukraine to climate change, and a looming world recession, there was no lack of …

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Chile launches climate change observatory

Chile launches climate change observatory

Chile has just launched a climate change observatory that will gather an unprecedented amount of data from the most under-monitored part of the Southern Hemisphere and make it available online for free. It is part of a new effort to speed up vital information for scientists to predict and mitigate …

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Climate change to make world sicker, poorer: UN report

Climate change to make world sicker, poorer: UN report

There are fears from scientists that the conflict in Ukraine will overshadow the release of a climate report that’s being called “an atlas of suffering” by the United Nations. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on global warming shows the pace and scale of climate impacts are accelerating rapidly …

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Will politicians listen to climate change warnings? | Inside Story

Will politicians listen to climate change warnings? | Inside Story

For more than a century industrialisation has spread across much of the world. The planet is getting warmer and the places on it, where humanity can live healthily, are getting fewer. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – or IPCC – has brought together scientists from 195 countries to …

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Fiji struggles with relocations amid climate change crisis

Fiji struggles with relocations amid climate change crisis

The people of Fiji want the developed nations that contribute most to global warming to not only curb their emissions, but to pay for the damage done to their land and homes. Local communities say they are running out of ways to adapt to the rising ocean that surrounds them. …

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