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overall warming trend, changes to precipitation patterns, and more extreme weather. As the climate changes it impacts the natural environment with effects such...

considered the most vulnerable to warming, with one meta-analysis concluding that every 1 °C (1.8 °F) of global warming reduces maize yields by 7.4%. It...

rise in line with projected ongoing global warming for different climate change scenarios. A review found if warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century...

the rate of the global ocean. The warming rate varies with depth. The upper ocean (above 700 m) is warming the fastest. At an ocean depth of a thousand...

common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate...

gloenvcha.2006.11.007. "SPECIAL REPORT: GLOBAL WARMING OF 1.5 °C; Chapter 3: Impacts of 1.5°C global warming on natural and human systems". ilcc.ch. Intergovernmental...

as it accounts for the majority of the human population. Warming since the 20th century is increasing the threat of heatwaves across the entire continent...

a warming climate. This is likely to further accelerate warming, as the evergreen trees will absorb more of the sun's rays. Given the vast size of the...

Many of the fastest-warming locations were in the drought-prone Southwest, with Reno, Nevada, warming by +7.7 °F (4.3 °C). Alaska warmed by 4.3° F (2.4 °C)...

vulnerable to the effects of global warming projected for the next 50 to 100 years because of its extensive arid and semi-arid areas, and already warm climate,...

total damages are estimated to be 90% less if global warming is limited to 1.5 °C compared to 3.66 °C, a warming level chosen to represent no mitigation. In...

The Köppen climate classification system was strongly influenced by effects of temperature and precipitation upon tree growth, and oversimplified assumptions...

2 °F) of global warming, abrupt (around 50 years) and widespread collapse of permafrost areas could occur, resulting in an additional warming of 0.2–0...

from the current level of warming, a small fraction of the 53.3 m (175 ft) contained in the full ice sheet. With a global warming of around 3 °C (5.4 °F)...

Stirling, I.; Derocher, A. E. (2012). "Effects of climate warming on polar bears: a review of the evidence". Global Change Biology. 18 (9): 2694–2706. Bibcode:2012GCBio...

global warming, ocean acidification, and pollution affect marine life and its habitats. For the past 50 years, more than 90 percent of global warming...

(73.6–74.1 °F). The water has gradually warmed since the 19th century and this has accelerated with global warming since the 1950s. The lake is stratified...

agencies have acknowledged the need to instill new policies battling the effects of climate change. The World Bank has provided funding through the Climate...

eventually cancelled by Japan in 2003. As one of the world's most vulnerable nations to the effects of global warming, Kiribati has been an active participant...

stressors such as climate change and global warming. Several studies show that high temperature raises proportion of male births, but the reasons for this...