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New research has found that instances of severe weather in the UK will increase with every degree of climate change. The study, published in the journal Climatic Change, suggests that the higher the level of global warming, the stronger the projected increase in frequency or severity – or both – of hot weather, droughts and...
Radical changes to land use are required to tackle climate change and ensure food security, according to a new report from the IPCC. The Special Report on Climate Change and Land, approved by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 7 August in Geneva, highlights that land is under growing pressure from human activity...
The most extensive land-based study of the effect of drought on Amazonian rainforests to date has shown that a recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin’s carbon sink. Previous research has suggested that the Amazon – the most extensive tropical forest on Earth – may be gradually losing its capacity to take carbon from...