[ad_1] Scorching weather gripped three continents on Sunday, whipping up wildfires and threatening to topple temperature records. In the Vatican, 15,000 people braved sweltering temperatures to hear Pope Francis lead prayer, using parasols and fans to keep cool. In Japan, authorities issued heatstroke alerts to tens of millions of people in 20 of its 47 […]
[ad_1] With wildfire season under way in the United States, the federal government is facing a potential exodus of wildland firefighters over a major pay cut that could go into effect in a few months. Funding in President Joe Biden’s 2021 infrastructure law gave a temporary pay boost to thousands of firefighters on the climate front […]
[ad_1] Canada has launched its first-ever national strategy to help communities adapt to increasingly severe weather caused by climate change. Increased flooding, wildfires and melting permafrost are among the issues the government will seek to address under the strategy, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault explained in a press conference on Tuesday. “We see more severe climate […]
[ad_1] Tropical forests destroyed last year released 2.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, equivalent to the fossil fuel emissions of India – the world’s most populous nation. The world lost an area of old-growth tropical rainforest the size of Switzerland last year as relentless deforestation continues despite promises to protect carbon sinks […]
[ad_1] Financing for clean energy in developing and emerging economies, excluding China, must increase seven-fold within a decade if global warming is to be capped at tolerable levels, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says. To keep temperatures from rising to catastrophic levels, annual investments in non-fossil fuel energy in these Global South countries will need […]
[ad_1] The world needs to phase out fossil fuels if it wants to curb devastating global warming, the United Nations climate chief says, but the idea might not even make it onto the agenda of “make-or-break” negotiations. The phase-out of heat-trapping fossil fuels “is something that is at top of every discussion or most discussions […]
[ad_1] As the world scrambles to address climate change and build resilience to prepare communities for its destructive impacts, nature-based solutions are being presented as a panacea. These projects, which leverage nature and natural processes to help alleviate the effects of climate change and harmful human activity, are increasing in number and scale. In the […]
[ad_1] Alessandra Korap is one of six recipients of the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism. When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village, nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, was a haven of seclusion. But as she grew up, the nearby city of Itaituba crept closer and closer, with […]
[ad_1] Sea level rises double, and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record, World Meteorological Organization warns. Record levels of greenhouse gases have caused “planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere”, a UN agency says in a report that shows the past eight years were the hottest ever recorded […]
[ad_1] Port Vila, Vanuatu – Vanuatu is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world and it is regularly affected by cyclones during the wet season from November to April. But few in this archipelago nation of more than 80 islands were prepared for two Category 4 cyclones hitting the country within 72 hours […]
[ad_1] Australian climate campaigner Deanna ‘Violet’ CoCo found herself facing a 15-month prison sentence after she and three other activists drove a truck onto Sydney Harbour Bridge last April and blocked one of its lanes during the morning rush hour. The group lit orange flares and livestreamed their protest leading to gridlock in Australia’s largest […]
[ad_1] UAE’s COP president says oil-and-gas industry must take charge of the battle against planetary warming. The oil-and-gas industry must lead the fight against climate change, the president of this year’s United Nations climate talks says. Addressing hundreds of oil-and-gas executives at the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas, on Monday, Sultan al-Jaber, said, “No one […]
[ad_1] From: Counting the Cost The European Union plans to halt the sale of fossil fuel cars by 2035 and wants to speed up the switch to electric vehicles. The manufacture of fossil fuel-powered cars employs millions of people across Europe. But the vehicles account for 15 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the […]
[ad_1] Taipei, Taiwan – At opposite ends of Southeast Asia, researchers Pornampai Narenpitak and Heri Kuswanto are both working on the same problem: Is it possible to mimic the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions to halt global warming? Using computer modelling and analysis, Narenpitak and Kuswanto are separately studying whether shooting large quantities of sulphur […]
[ad_1] Below-normal rainfall is expected during the rainy season over the next three months in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, a climate research centre says. Drought trends in the Horn of Africa are now worse than they were during the 2011 famine in which hundreds of thousands of people died. The IGAD Climate Prediction […]
[ad_1] Cold temperatures, icy blizzards and strong gusts are expected to sweep through cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota. A “historic winter storm” is forecasted to dump record snowfall on parts of the midwestern United States this week, with local officials warning of “life-threatening travel conditions” in areas expected to receive blizzard conditions. “A huge swath of […]
[ad_1] From: Counting the Cost The European Union has drawn up a plan to boost the production of electric cars and renewable energy projects. The International Energy Agency estimates the global market for mass-produced clean energy will triple to around $650bn a year by 2030. The world’s biggest economies want a slice of that growing […]
[ad_1] Failure to act on the climate emergency means ‘parts of our planet will be uninhabitable and for many it will be a death sentence’, Antonio Guterres warns. Some big oil companies ignored their own science on the dangers of climate change and “peddled the big lie” for decades about the safety of burning […]
[ad_1] As the west coast of the United States withstands its ninth major storm in three weeks, California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new executive order to “further bolster the emergency response” as his state contends with widespread flooding and mudslides. In a statement on Monday, Newsom’s office said that the onslaught of atmospheric […]
[ad_1] Activists in Swiss resort demand stronger action to tackle the climate crisis at the World Economic Forum. Scores of climate activists have gathered in Davos to protest against the role of big oil companies at the World Economic Forum (WEF) and demand stronger action to tackle the climate crisis. The annual meeting of global […]
