Global Warming
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Climate scientists describe Greenland as an open refrigerator door for a warming world. Remote, icy and mostly pristine, Greenland plays an outsized role in the daily weather experienced by billions of people and in the climate changes taking shape all over the planet. Greenland is where climate change, scarce resources, tense geopolitics and new trade…
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The world’s oceans have reached their highest temperature on record, raising fears that coral reefs are on the brink of a massive and potentially lethal heat shock. New satellite data from the European Copernicus Climate Change Service shows the global average sea surface temperature in February was 21.06C, higher than the previous record of 20.98C set in…
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The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28, is a milestone moment as the world takes stock of the progress that has been made in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement. The summit, which concludes on Tuesday in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, has also sought to…
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A new draft of a global deal from the COP28 climate summit is a “sorely needed improvement” on tackling fossil fuels, WWF has said, after a previous version sparked outcry. However, there is still no specific reference to the phase out of fossil fuels. The UN’s climate body published the proposed text of the deal…
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Hong Kong needs a multipronged approach to cope with extreme weather and reduce carbon emissions, scholars said. They made the remarks after a study, which was released on Monday, found that the city could witness stifling hot night temperatures and heavier rainfall over more days in a year in the coming decades amid worsening extreme…
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Floods have displaced 650,000 Nigerian children, making the country the second most affected globally by climate change impacts on children. The displacement occurred from 2016 to 2023, as highlighted in a press release by the United Nations Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, on Monday, which coincided with the 2023 World Children’s Day. The UN agency emphasised…
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– ‘Globally, it’s extremely likely this will be the hottest December, January, February on record,’ warns climate scientist Mathew Barlow – ‘For the earth as a whole, it’s very likely to be the hottest period on record,’ Barlow tells Anadolu – Global warming and effect of El Nino weather phenomenon key reasons for warm winter…
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In a powerful address at the African Climate Summit in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for decisive climate action in addressing escalating extreme weather challenges. Guterres urged global leaders to unite in their commitment to climate resilience, highlighting its critical role in mitigating the devastating impacts of climate change.…
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The cloud, full of beauty and mystery, Always different each time we stare Never a word to describe its fairness, Except we compare its light to darkness. ———————————————- Stars glittering with bewildering lighting, Know their fates could wait a billion years But the larger a star, the shorter its lifetime, A reason silence yells when…
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From China in the east to the US in the west, the world is under the grip of scorching heat waves and catastrophic extreme weather events. The disasters unfolding are rooted in several reasons, not least the increasing impact of rising global temperatures – currently around 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.…
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From 2013 to 2022, “human-induced warming has been increasing at an unprecedented rate of over 0.2 degrees Celsius per decade,” they reported in a peer-reviewed study aimed at policymakers. Average annual emissions over the same period hit an all-time high of 54 billion tonnes of CO2 or its equivalent in other gases — about 1,700…
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As a scorching heatwave dries up water sources in the state’s biggest city, veterinary doctors and animal rescuers said rescuers in India’s western Gujarat state are rescuing dozens of exhausted and dehydrated birds dropping to the ground everyday. In the hottest pre-summer months in recent years, large areas of South Asia are drying up, leading…
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Eight degrees Fahrenheit. It may not sound like much—perhaps the difference between wearing a sweater and not wearing one on an early-spring day. But for the world in which we live, which climate experts project will be at least eight degrees warmer by 2100 should global emissions continue on their current path, this small rise will have…
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Environmentalists’ traditional role is to hold governments and corporations accountable and to inform, motivate and engage the broader public of the dangers posed by government inaction or corporate malfeasance. And our relationships with both government and business have often been uneasy. On the government side, pro-environment leaders come and go. Some have passed forward leaning…
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COP26 President Alok Sharma released early on Friday morning the second draft of a Glasgow agreement on climate action, which included an expression of “deep regret” over climate finance failures and adjusted language on coal and fossil fuels. Sharma then engaged in a maelstrom of mediation, visiting dozens of national delegations in a bid to…
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Jane Fonda has quit shopping in order to save the planet. The 82-year-old actress has admitted she’s still using clothes that were in her wardrobe 30 years ago, because she doesn’t want to waste perfectly good items by throwing them out as she’s worried it could have a negative impact on the environment. She said:…
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