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Climate Challenges

COP29 hosts event on "Radiation and Climate Change: New Challenges"

The event "Radiation and Climate Change: New Challenges" was held at the Azerbaijan Pavilion on November 18 within the framework of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29), moderated by the Ministry of Emergency Situations (MES) and the State Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activities, News.az reports.

18 Nov 2024-23:49
Impact of climate change on food production: challenges and prospects

How will climate change affect food production? Can global agriculture adapt to provide enough food for 8, 9, or even 10 billion people? What does the future of farming look like in a warming world, and what consequences can we expect under various scenarios? These questions lie at the heart of discussions about the future of global food security.

15 Oct 2024-13:24
Climate challenges ahead: What to expect from COP-29 in Baku - INTERVIEW

By Faiq Mahmudov

The analytical-information portal News.Az continues its series of articles, interviews and videos entitled "COP29 Baku". As part of this series, we will be posting interviews with and videos of prominent climate and environmental experts. Our guest today is Dorothy M Peteet. Dr. Dorothy M. Peteet is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University. She directs the Paleoecology Division of the New Core Lab at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia and in collaboration with GISS climate modelers and LDEO geochemists is studying the Late Pleistocene and Holocene archives of lakes and wetlands (peatlands, salt marshes, tidal freshwater marshes, bogs, fens). Documenting past vegetational change using pollen and spores, plant and animal macrofossils, loss-on-ignition, carbon, and charcoal in conjunction with accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating, her research provides local and regional records of vegetational and climate history and carbon sequestration. Peteet has performed GCM experiments to test hypotheses concerning LGM and abrupt climate change. She is interested in climate sensitivity from past climate changes and ecological shifts with future climate change.

24 Aug 2024-10:00