Into the fire: The alarming effects of climate change
Delhiwallas may have learnt to live with 43 degree heat, but Europe is wilting in the heat as a record heatwave continues to sweep across the northern hemisphere, causing forest fires, droughts and pe
Elephants of Cirkus Arena are being hosed down by local firefighters during a hot summer day in Gilleleje, Denmark.
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Bus driver Abdelkader poses in a bus wearing a bermuda, the new RATP uniform allowed during heat waves in the French capital, in Paris, France. In Nantes, a bevy of male bus and tram drivers sweltering in the 37-degree heat made headlines with an unusual protest against a ban on their wearing shorts. They turned up in skirts, which are allowed for female drivers!
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The Champagne region in France, renowned for the sparkling wine that bears its name, is grappling with rising temperatures that affects the acidity and taste of the champagne. Over the last six months, the region has been two degrees hotter than normal. Warmer nights may ensure that grapes ripen, but it also results in lower acidity in the grapes. This doesn't spell good news because acid
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Belgian winemaker Annie Hautier works among vines at the Domaine du Chapitre in Baulers, Belgium. A warming climate has contributed to a quickly expanding wine industry in a country otherwise known for chocolate and beer. The grape growing area has expanded five-fold and production has quadrupled since 2006. The UK and Poland are now producing wine, and competing with France, as their cli
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5/15
A combine, taken with a drone, harvests wheat in a field of the "Zemlyaki" farm in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. Global warming has helped Russia to expand its wheat yield, lowering global prices while the corn belt region in the US is expanding, with the growing season getting longer.
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A young woman sorts coffee beans at the Kaffa Forest Farmers Cooperative Union outside Bonga, Ethiopia. Poor countries, like the Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, are losing billions of dollars a year to extreme weather events like droughts that destroy harvests. The worst hit countries are those who rely on a single crop for export revenues like Ethiopia with coffee. South and central Ameri
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Pilgrims descend a rock face after a ceremony during the annual Qoyllurit'i (Snow and Star) festival in Ocongate, Peru. A warmer climate is melting much of the 'sacred' Qolqepunku's glaciers, and the rituals that were previously undertaken on the ice - believed to hold special healing properties - are now held on the rocky slopes. The disappearance of elements vital to a community’s belie
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Timing is everything in nature. Ecologists at the University of Ottawa presented a first global look at biological timing of 88 species that rely on another life form, and showed that on average, species are moving out of sync by about six days. Bees have to be around and flowers have to bloom at the same time for pollination to work, and hawks need to migrate at the same time as their pr
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9/15
Times Square was ‘flooded’ in a multi-media art display, aiming to show how climate change could lead to sea levels rising over low-lying sections of New York City. Using smartphones, visitors could see three-dimensional (3D) holograms of ships and marine life floating above them in the flooded square in an augmented reality display by artist Mel Chin titled ‘Unmoored’. Engineered by Micr
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10/15
Thousands of miles of underground internet cables crisscrossing coastal regions like New York, Seattle and Miami will be indundated by rising seas in the next 15 years. The study presented by computer scientists from University of Wisconsin-Madison is among the first to reveal the damage a changing climate will cause for the network of cables and data centres. The slight increases predict
