Tue 31 August 2021: The successful global effort to end the use of leaded gasoline, or petroleum will save 1.2 million lives and save $2.45 trillion a year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced on Monday. “Official end of [the] use of leaded petrol will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save […]
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Sat 28 August 2021: As part of a “blood money” march against the City of London’s funding of the fossil-fuel industry, climate activists sprayed red paint on the entrance to Standard Chartered’s building. Hundreds of protestors, who had assembled outside the Bank of England, have now congregated outside the 10-story structure, two of whom are […]
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Tue 24 August 2021: International aid groups warned on Monday that millions across Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are in danger of losing access to water, electricity and food due to climate change that has brought about scorching temperatures and little rain, amplifying drought conditions across much of the region. Syria and Iraq, both battered by […]
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Sun 22 August 2021: About 1 billion children — nearly half the world’s 2.2 billion children — live in 33 countries classified as “extremely high-risk” of the impacts of climate change, according to a report of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched Friday. These children face a deadly combination of exposure to multiple climate and […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: Despite growing global concern over the rapid devastation since President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has reached its highest yearly level in a decade, according to a new analysis. Between August 2020 and July 2021, the rainforest lost 10.476 square kilometres, an area nearly seven […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: COVID vaccines have brought billions of dollars to the coffers of pharmaceutical companies. Germany’s BioNTech, maker with partner Pfizer of the pioneering mRNA jab, raised its vaccine revenue forecast for 2021 in its latest earnings report on Monday. Here are the numbers for the companies that publish financial results: Biggest winners: Pfizer and BioNTech […]
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Mon 09 August 2021: The Arctic is likely to be practically free of ice at least once in the summer by 2050 because of the increasing pace of the global warming, according to a fresh report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). According to the IPCC experts, the Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover […]
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Sat 07 August 2021: Most people who search on Google, share on Facebook and shop on Amazon have never heard of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But they might not be doing any of those things had he not invented the World Wide Web. It’s 30 years since the young English software engineer launched the world’s first […]
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Fri 06 August 2021: According to a recent scientific study, human-caused climate change is jeopardizing a major current system that plays a key role in transporting warmer and cooler waters across the Atlantic, which could have disastrous consequences for global temperatures and critical ecosystems. A new study suggests that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), […]
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Thu 05 August 2021: Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 200 million on Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least 10% of the population in every country was vaccinated. (Graphic on global vaccinations) “We need an urgent reversal, […]
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