Alister Doyle

Extreme global warming seen further away than previously thought

August 24, 2021 at 3:04 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Extreme global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international team of scientists...

Scientists say united on global warming, at odds with public view

August 24, 2021 at 2:43 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Ninety-seven percent of scientists say global warming is mainly man-made but a wide public belief that experts are divided is making it harder to gain support for...

Ice melt, sea level rise, to be less severe than feared: study

August 24, 2021 at 2:40 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - A melt of ice on Greenland and Antarctica is likely to be less severe than expected this century, limiting sea level rise to a maximum of 69...

Acidification: the latest unknown for stressed Arctic ecosystem

August 24, 2021 at 2:12 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - The Arctic ecosystem, already under pressure from record ice melts, faces another potential threat in the form of rapid acidification of the ocean, according to an international...

Plants slow climate change by forming cloud sunshade: study

August 24, 2021 at 1:40 p.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Plants help to slow climate change by emitting gases as temperatures rise that lead to the formation of a sunshade of clouds over the planet, scientists said...

Metals recycling needs bigger role in product design: U.N

August 24, 2021 at 1:31 p.m.

OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) - Designers of everything from mobile phones to electric car batteries should make their products far easier to recycle to offset soaring demand for metals, two United Nations...

Ending poverty hinges on tougher environmental goals: study

August 24, 2021 at 6:15 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Governments must impose radical limits on everything from water use to greenhouse gases if they want to have any chance of ending global poverty, a group of...

Norway shows the way with electric cars, but at what cost?

August 24, 2021 at 5:57 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's buzzing little market for pure electric cars has in its very success shown the severe drawbacks to a model that relies on public subsidies worth as...

Canada’s Arctic glaciers headed for unstoppable thaw: study

August 24, 2021 at 5:35 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Canadian glaciers that are the world's third biggest store of ice after Antarctica and Greenland seem headed for an irreversible melt that will push up sea levels,...

Shark overfishing pushes many species to the brink

August 24, 2021 at 5:13 a.m.

OSLO (Reuters) - Protection measures have failed to stop around 100 million sharks being fished every year and a third of all shark species are now threatened with extinction, conservationists...

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