Real Climate

JANUARY 28, 2024

The second is to avoid cherry picking your comparison – there is always a spread of results by just looking at one small region, in one season, in one metric, so it’s pretty easy to fool yourself (and others!) What about other seasons and regions? if you find something that doesn’t match.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers extreme heat and drought across Europe. In Europe, countries continue to endure an extremely hot and dry summer. Temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit have made the region a tinderbox. Transcript. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2023

Parched conditions are a major stress for subsistence farmers, most of whom practice dryland agriculture in a region where irrigation is scarce. He endured three years of forced labor without compensation on a cattle farm before escaping and crossed the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Europe. Mahmoud’s is not an isolated story.

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The Applied Ecologist

MAY 26, 2022

A new paper led by Csaba Tölgyesi from the University of Szeged, Hungary, shows that drainage canals can be harnessed for biodiversity conservation in desiccated, heavily transformed regions by reconciling the interests of opposing stakeholders. In Europe, most lowland fens have been drained; approximately 25% of the arable land …

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

A study published last month when the European temperature was peaking, now predicts Europe is facing its worst drought in 500 years It reported that two-thirds of the continent is either in a state of drought or on alert. It reported that 47% of Europe has been warned to expect severe shortages of water. Severe droughts.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In the regions of the Basque Country, Asturias and Cantabria around 40 blazes were reported. In some areas, vegetation had turned into dry fuel working as a catalyst for the wildfires, adding to increasing concerns about Europe’s changing weather patterns. The trend of rising temperatures across Europe. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, IPCC finds that Northern Europe, Western Central Europe and Eastern Europe all show an observed increase in heavy precipitation events, such as the one causing the recent massive flooding in Germany and Belgium. Work here will continue to advance, but the picture is clear only in a few regions so far.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 20, 2021

More than 700 people in one German city are safe after disastrous flooding over the weekend kills nearly 200 across western Europe. Why it matters: A decades-long drought in one of the warming world’s most arid regions, heightened by what many consider to be governmental mismanagement, has set the stage for a severe, dangerously dry 2021.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This fact is underscored by recent weather-related calamities , such as flooding in Central Europe and heatwaves over North America. Our understanding on how regional climates will unfold in the future is very limited and the outcomes are uncertain. It’s urgent because we are not even adapted to the present climate.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 15, 2022

Wildfires in the Gironde region of southwestern France. Wildfires on the rise in Europe. In recent years the wildfire season in Europe has hugely intensified with much more severe and prolonged fires. Photo credit: Reuters / Stephane Mahe. By Anders Lorenzen. Is this a view of the future? Heartbroken.

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Real Climate

JULY 7, 2021

In the paper, they show that this event was truly exceptional in the temperature statistics in the region and specifically in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, but that the geopotential height anomaly (one measure of the ‘heat dome’ or the ridging) was not that far off from the underlying trends. Their preprint (Philip et al.)

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 7, 2023

Countries in Europe have had a shockingly dry winter and are now preparing for yet another hot, dry summer. In Italy, rivers in prime farming regions are well below normal levels. If passed, the bill would allow the regional water provider to restrict how much water a single-family home can use each year.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. 2012) and account for random regional climate variations on scales up to decades. C above the preindustrial level.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 26, 2022

Tracking building activity across the years, estimated from felling year of timber from historical buildings, can yield an unrivaled economic record for premodern Europe. That is the conclusion from a vast study by a consortium of scientists across Europe, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2023

The President and CEO of Swedish mining company LKAB Jan Mostrom and Sweden’s Energy Minister Ebba Busch host a joint news conference at LKAB in Kiruna, Sweden upon the discovery of Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth metals. An estimated up to one million tonnes of rare earth oxides is the largest known deposit in Europe.

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Real Climate

MAY 31, 2023

Do the global climate models (GCMs) we use for describing future climate change really capture the change and variations in the region that we want to study? I also want to know whether the ensemble of GCM simulations that I use provides representative statistics of the actual regional climate I’m interested in.

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A Greener Life

MAY 4, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Temperature records have been set in Portugal and Spain , as the region continues to endure early Spring heat. The Iberian peninsula has broken temperature records for April as they swelter in an early-season heatwave which has exacerbated a long drought in some regions.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

So the Ditlevsens used sea surface temperatures (SST) in a region between the tip of Greenland and Britain as an indicator, based on Caesar et al. The basic idea starts with the observation that this region is far warmer than what is normal for that latitude, because the AMOC delivers a huge amount of heat into the area.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 8, 2022

The Deloitte Economics Institute modeled region-level data from 15 geographies across Asia, Europe, and the Americas to estimate how much it could cost the global economy if we aren’t able to prevent global average temperatures from rising 3 degrees C by the end of the century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Plus, offshore wind power can stretch far beyond the coasts, given regional electric grids and electricity flows between regions. Offshore wind offers one of the best opportunities for large-scale, zero-carbon electricity production in some regions, and is an important tool for diversifying the sources of clean electricity.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

It’s not a good areal sample of the northern hemisphere, it’s not a good sample of rural stations – many of which exist in the rest of Europe, Australia, Southern Africa, South America etc., An areal weighting of the four regional time series might be justifiable, but that isn’t what’s done. Lean, and D.H.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Another chapter from the previously-noted book, Greening Europe , is "Negotiating the Maritime Commons: Protecting the Baltic Sea in a European Context" , by Simo Laakkonen and Tuomas Räsänen. The second environmental regime was developed from the 1960s until the 1970sonaninternational level in the Baltic Sea region.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

More than 37,000 non-native species have been introduced to ecosystems and regions around the world and more than a third these introductions have occurred since 1970. In terms of impacts, 34% are reported in the Americas, 31% in Europe and Central Asia, 25% in the Asia Pacific region, and 7% Africa.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Azerbaijan filed suit in international court, claiming that Armenia , over decades of wartime occupation, destroyed biodiversity, ecology, and farmland in the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Drought, dams, and waterway diversions are overwhelming a recovering region of marshes, lakes, and river basins in southern Iraq. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Early in 2023 China brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties and direct contact between the two regional heavyweights, and aspiring leaders of Shia and Sunni Muslims, for the first time in seven years. That effort has grown to encompass international mediation.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Across the world’s primary grape-growing regions, from Europe to Australia and California, winemakers and growers are facing the same challenges: severe drought and heat in the summer and early warm temperatures in the winter followed by punishing frosts that are killing their vines or leaving them vulnerable to disease.

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Arnold Porter

MARCH 17, 2023

The 2023 edition of Chambers Europe highlighted five Arnold & Porter practices as "Leading Firm" and recognized eight attorneys as "Leading Individuals." Chambers Europe covers 53 jurisdictions across Europe, providing in-depth analysis on top-tier law firms and attorneys in the region.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 21, 2022

As many parts of Europe were last week gripped by an early heatwave , Europeans hunting for shade were increasingly concerned over climate change. The temperatures in some regions of France climbed close to Spain at around 41-42 degrees C. A woman trying to cool down during the heatwave in Spain. By Anders Lorenzen. Drought crisis.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 28, 2022

The European Union has announced a new bundle of sustainability-focused policy proposals that will expand existing ecodesign rules on energy efficiency by encouraging longer product lifespans, supporting the growth of circular economy business models and helping consumers combat greenwashing and make more environmentally friendly purchasing choices, (..)

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A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2022

The river stretching from the Alps in the northwest to the Adriatic Sea on the east coast is a vital source of water for several regions. The drought in Italy only adds to fears in Europe , where recent reports warn that currently half of Europe is at risk of drought. Water crisis.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A new Pew Research Center survey in 17 advanced economies spanning North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region finds widespread concern about the personal impact of global climate change. Read the full story from the Pew Research Center.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2022

The coalition has had most success in Europe, where on Earth Day, the European Union arrived at an agreement on the Digital Services Act. This is a victory not only for social media users in Europe, but potentially for users everywhere, if this legislation serves as a model for other regions and countries.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2021

“Every region behaves differently,” Hallegraeff, an emeritus professor at the University of Tasmania, told Circle of Blue. This work shows very clearly that we need to study this problem region by region and species by species. Though lacking proof of a global trend, the study did find evidence of regional variations.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Despite the economic downturn, the electric vehicle (EV) market in Europe is showing some resilience despite the cost of living crisis which is impacting consumer spending. . During Q1, the region had 236,991 new hybrid units. Chinese and US car companies are also seeing Europe as one of their key markets. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Inhabitant

JUNE 9, 2021

Brainport Eindhoven is a cooperative region in Europe where companies, governments and educational institutions work together to develop innovative technology. So it’s no surprise the design for the new Congress and Conference Centre for Eindhoven came as a result of a 2020 competition for the best design.

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Dario Piselli

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

This week, I joined the 19th meeting of the ENVE Commission of the European Committee of the Regions in Malaga, Spain to deliver a statement on the state of environmental health in Europe on behalf of the European Environment Agency.

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