Tag Archives: Global Warming

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sounded a warning on the climate crisis Wednesday when he said: “Humanity has opened the gates of hell.” “Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects, distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods, sweltering temperatures spawning disease, and thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage,” Guterres …

It is near certain that the next five years will be the warmest period ever recorded, the United Nations has warned, as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. For the first time, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 …

We don’t have time to choose between stopping emissions and removing CO2 from the air. We need to do both to survive. In 2015, I visited Fiji, Kiribati, and Tuvalu, which had just been hit by a cyclone. There, I learned a slogan — “1.5 to stay alive” — which …

La Niña has a devastating impact because of its effect on weather and climate Changing temperatures around the world have led to several climate emergencies so far in 2022, from historic flooding in Pakistan that’s displaced millions of people to the rapid melting of a major glacier in Antarctica. Parts …

47 percent of Europe is under warning conditions with a clear deficit of soil moisture, European Drought Observatory says. Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production, and the yields …

Analysts say the rate of deforestation indicates the world is not on track to meet COP26 commitments. In 2021, the world lost an area of forest greater than the size of the United Kingdom, according to a report by Global Forest Watch – a trajectory that is set to fall …

Almost a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, while hundreds are on the brink of being wiped out, according to a landmark report published by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) on Wednesday. According to the State of the World’s Trees report 17,500 tree species – …

The COVID pandemic has shown the fragility of our global food supply chains, with many supermarkets and restaurants in almost every country having experienced food shortages. Millions of people in the UK alone have experienced severe food insecurity during COVID-19, according to a recent report by the country’s Foods Standards Agency. …

Fires stoked by hot winds have swept through southern Italy, after a monitoring station in Sicily reported temperatures of 48.8 Celsius (119.84°F) which some scientists believe could be the highest in European history. The record temperature, which still needs to be verified by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), was reported …

Extreme heatwaves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a UN climate science report says. The report found that we are already experiencing those effects of climate change, …

Earth’s climate is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.” “It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to …

A group of 14,000 scientists from 34 countries has issued yet another warning about the state of planet Earth after data showed an increase in climate-related disasters in the past two years. “We are nearing or have already crossed tipping points associated with critical parts of the Earth system, including …

European Union policymakers on Wednesday unveiled their most ambitious plan yet to tackle climate change, aiming to turn green goals into concrete action this decade and set an example for the world’s other big economies to follow. The European Commission, the EU executive body, set out in painstaking detail how …

Devastating climate effects from unliveable heat to more widespread disease are accelerating and will become obvious within 30 years, draft UN report says.

Swiss voters are casting ballots in a referendum on a proposed “carbon dioxide law” that would hike fees and taxes on fuels that produce greenhouse gases, as their Alpine country experiences an outsized impact from the fallout of climate change. The proposal would revise and strengthen an existing law that …

The political-industrial complex has been slowly hijacking the new global narrative of transformation and building back better The world’s ice is melting faster than the scientific forecasts, the forests are burning everywhere from the tropics to the Arctic, the oceans have been converted into dump yards, animal populations are in …

Iceland’s glaciers have lost around 750 square kilometers, or seven percent of their surface, since the turn of the millennium due to global warming, a study published on Monday showed. The glaciers, which cover more than 10 percent of the country’s landmass, shrank in 2019 to 10,400 square kilometers, the …

A huge iceberg, the world’s largest, has broken off from an ice shelf in Antarctica and is floating through the Weddell Sea, the European Space Agency said. Called A-76 and roughly the shape of Manhattan but more than 70 times bigger, it was picked up on satellite images and is …

For a moment, the Brazilian firefighters were taken aback by the sudden rage of the climbing flames: the speed at which they grew and moved, carried by the evening wind. Under the supervision of firefighters from Brazil’s environment agency Ibama, a farmer in this remote part of the Amazon had …

A fire destroyed a vast area of a forest in France and people in Britain filled beaches on the hottest day of the year so far. More than a dozen Italian cities were put on alert and Spain experienced record temperatures as heatwaves gripped Europe last week. A fire destroyed …