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Define 'climate change'.
'There is no silver lining': why Alaska fires are a glimpse of our climate future
For residents of Anchorage, July’s wildfire and unprecedented temperatures plus the current McKinley Fire confirm that global heating has changed life forever
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...ska-fires-are-a-glimpse-of-our-climate-future
Climate change: Greenland's ice faces melting 'death sentence'
Greenland's massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned.
During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a millimetre.
Researchers say they're "astounded" by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around the world.
One glacier in southern Greenland has thinned by as much as 100 metres since I last filmed on it back in 2004.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49483580
'It's all gone': shattered Bahamas counts cost of Hurricane Dorian's destruction
Lashing rain, 185mph winds – the ferocious storm has left 43 dead and hundreds missing. Oliver Laughland reports from the rubble of Grand Bahama
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...dorian-bahamas-grand-bahama-abaco-latest-news
Gone. Their island has gone.
Nothing unusual. Everything normal. Move along.
The Bahamas is still there.
Australia launches emergency relocation of fish as largest river system faces collapse
There are doubts the Noah’s Ark plan for the Lower Darling will be enough to prevent more mass fish kills
Faced with a looming ferocious summer with little rain forecast, the New South Wales government has embarked on a Noah’s Ark type operation to move native fish from the Lower Darling – part of Australia’s most significant river system – to safe havens before high temperatures return to the already stressed river basin.
Researchers have warned of other alarming ecological signs that the Lower Darling River – part of the giant Murray-Darling Basin – is in a dire state, following last summer’s mass fish kills.
Professor Fran Sheldon, from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute, said only one surviving colony of river mussels had been found along the river and there were signs that river red gums were under severe stress.
“If the river red gums die, and some are hundreds of years old, there will be a domino effect. Banks will collapse, there will be massive erosion and it will send sediments down the river.”
https://www.theguardian.com/austral...argest-river-system-faces-ecological-collapse
Hurricane Dorian: thousands may still be missing as death toll hits 43
Rescuers battle to reach devastated communities as cruise ships arrive with supplies and volunteers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/07/hurricane-dorian-death-toll-missing-rescue
Spanish floods claim sixth victim
Climate SOS: Five-year period ending 2019 to be hottest on record
If greenhouse gas emissions don't soon start falling there will be 'hell to pay', researchers warn.
A damning new UN report published on Sunday said the world is falling badly behind in the race to avert climate disaster as a result of runaway warming, with the five-year period ending 2019 set to be the hottest ever.
It comes ahead of a major UN climate summit on Monday that will be attended by more than 60 world leaders, as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pushes for countries to increase their greenhouse gas reduction targets.
The report "highlights the urgent need for the development of concrete actions that halt global warming and the worst effects of climate change", said its authors, the Science Advisory Group to the summit.
Average global temperature between 2015-2019 is on track to be the hottest of any five-year period on record, according to the report, which was compiled by the World Meteorological Organization.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019...riod-2019-hottest-record-190922180025530.html
Mont Blanc: Glacier in danger of collapse, experts warn
Italian authorities have closed roads and evacuated mountain huts after experts warned that part of a glacier on Mont Blanc could collapse.
About 250,000 cubic metres of ice are in danger of breaking away from the Planpincieux glacier on the Grandes Jorasses peak, officials said.
The mayor of the nearby town of Courmayeur said global warming was changing the mountain.
The Mont Blanc massif is Western Europe's highest mountain range.
It has 11 peaks above 4,000m in France and Italy and attracts hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.
On Tuesday, Courmayeur Mayor Stefano Miserocchi signed an order closing roads in the Val Ferret on the Italian side of Mont Blanc, after experts warned that a section of the glacier was sliding at speeds of 50-60cm (16-23in) per day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-49820542
Extreme sea level events ‘will hit once a year by 2050’
Climate report says intense storms and loss of marine life are already inevitable
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...sea-level-events-will-hit-once-a-year-by-2050