Climate change

Warming Western Antarctic Peninsula waters impact plankton community

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Warming Western Antarctic Peninsula waters impact plankton community

Warming water and receding sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula is changing the local plankton community with potential consequences for climate change, according to research led by scientists from … The post Warming Western Antarctic Peninsula waters impact plankton community appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Last chance for budding young designers to create two new mazes to celebrate Queen’s Green Canopy

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Reference:  Date:  Mon, 08/16/2021 East Cambridgeshire District Council is calling on young people across the district to get involved in their maze designing competition. The Council is looking for two creative plans from budding designers which will then be planted at Ely Country Park using hornbeam trees within the next planting season. The two tree-based…

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Extinction Rebellion Cambridge protest at the BBC over climate change coverage

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Action at science park base of UK broadcaster as extreme weather events cause new levels of devastation

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Climate change will transform cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, study suggests

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Climate change will transform cooling effects of volcanic eruptions, study suggests

Simulation of global sulfur gas concentrations courtesy Thomas Aubry, University of Cambridge Wednesday, August 11, 2021 Researchers have shown that human-caused climate change will have important consequences for how volcanic gases interact with the atmosphere. Researchers from this Department, the Department of Geography and the Met Office say that large-magnitude eruptions will have greater effects…

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Council urges city to come together to tackle climate change in response to landmark UN report

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Council urges city to come together to tackle climate change in response to landmark UN report

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IPCC: Polar scientists welcome Climate Change Assessment

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IPCC: Polar scientists welcome Climate Change Assessment

CAMBRIDGE: British Antarctic Survey welcomes the publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 component of its Sixth Assessment Report.  This assessment brings together the latest advances in … The post IPCC: Polar scientists welcome Climate Change Assessment  appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Extinction Rebellion activists block major Cambridge road

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Extinction Rebellion activists block major Cambridge road

Protesters hope to highlight the severity of climate change and urge policymakers to take urgent actions against it

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East Road traffic live: Updates as Extinction Rebellion block major Cambridge road in protest

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The climate change activists are blocking the road as a protest.

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Climate change risk to emperor penguins

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Climate change risk to emperor penguins

British Antarctic Survey scientists have contributed to a new study published today (3 August)  which provides valuable new data highlighting how emperor penguins extinction risk is increased due to rapid … The post Climate change risk to emperor penguins appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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The call of the emperor penguin: Legal responses to species threatened by climate change

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