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By Hongji Kim and Minwoo Park SANCHEONG COUNTY, South Korea, June 4 (Reuters) - Park Gyeong-je started tending beehives almost five decades ago, making it his livelihood because he liked spending time in nature.
March was a scorching 9.35 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the 20th-century average for the month, capping the hottest 12-month stretch for the U.S. since records began in 1895 The El Niño climate event is due to return this year,
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Can virtual reality make people care more about climate change? CT researchers aim to find out
Researchers want to know whether immersing people in a vision of Connecticut's future shoreline makes the risks of climate change feel more immediate.
Along with destructive winds and tornados, these storms brought record-sized hail. In Illinois, one meteorologist, Victor Gensini, found a 16-inch diameter hailstone that weighed over a pound. “It didn’t just break the record,
Climate change is contributing to the escalation of existing local conflicts in Africa. A new WZB study by Ruud Koopmans, Daniel Meierrieks, and Daniel Tuki uses the example of pastoralist conflict between nomadic herders (mainly Muslim Fulani) and sedentary farmers in Nigeria to show how droughts triggered by climate change exacerbate existing religious conflicts.
Pew Research Center polling finds a majority of US adults view global warming as a significant problem, though with a sharp partisan divide.
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Retired teacher, 58, buys gorgeous off-the-grid cabin in Maine to escape Florida climate change
Ted Borduas, 58, left teaching in Naples after 26 years and purchased an off-the-grid hut in Chesterville, close to Farmington, where he plans to relocate this summer.
Ted Borduas considers himself a climate refugee, and more people like him may be arriving in the coming years.
On a hot afternoon in California wine country, the sun can do more than warm a vineyard. It can scorch it. When temperatures climb above 100°F, grape clusters can heat to nearly 140° in direct sunlight.
Ipswich is deluged by intense rainfall as the county council plays down a climate change emergency.
New research into attitudes about climate change show there is no evidence of an urban-rural divide, but that the concerns felt in one setting are often underestimated by those in the other.