Sun 02 February 2025: A mountain in New Zealand, which Indigenous people consider an ancestor, has been granted legal personhood through a new law that gives it the same rights and obligations as a human being. Taranaki Maunga, formerly known as Mount Taranaki, is the latest natural feature in New Zealand to be granted legal […]
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Sun 26 January 2025: At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, UNICEF said on Friday. Heat waves were the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Cambodia, with over 118 million students affected in April alone, according to UNICEF […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Solar power overtook coal in Europe’s electricity mix for the first time in 2024 while gas declined for the fifth year in a row, energy think tank Ember said in a report on Thursday. “Driven by expanding wind and solar power, renewables have risen from a share of 34 percent in […]
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Fri 24 January 2025: Experts say May and June are hatching periods, the most appropriate time to catch larvae and juveniles. Taiwan has announced it will cull up to 120,000 green iguanas with local governments asking the public to help identify iguana nests, recommending fishing spears as the most humane means of killing the animals. […]
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Tue 14 January 2025: All glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland are losing mass or volume, and that water has to go somewhere – and that somewhere is the oceans,’ warns glaciologist Sridhar Anandakrishnan For years, glaciologist Sridhar Anandakrishnan has been studying the massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, often referred to as the “Doomsday Glacier.” Its […]
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Fri 10 January 2025: The global warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (34.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by countries was surpassed in 2024, the hottest year on record, according to a report. “2024 had a global average temperature of 15.10°C,” EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said in a report on Friday. It stressed: “2024 was […]
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California wildfire rips through LA; forecasters warn worst is yet to come Wed 08 January 2025: A wildfire ripped through a coastal area of Los Angeles on Tuesday and into Wednesday, forcing residents to flee by car and on foot. Three fires broke out shortly after each other, beginning with the Pacific Palisades fire, the Eaton fire […]
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Tue 07 January 2025: More than 350 elephants in Botswana died from toxic waterholes contaminated with cyanobacteria in 2020. Scientists now think they know why. An investigation into the sudden deaths of at least 350 elephants in Botswana in 2020 has revealed the cause was almost certainly a “toxic brew” of open water tainted by […]
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Wed 01 January 2025: Scientists predict that the world’s largest iceberg, A23a, will break apart within a month after escaping a whirlpool it was trapped in January 2024 and being carried toward Antarctica. A23a broke off from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in August 1986. The iceberg remained stationary for approximately 34 years. But […]
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Wed 25 December 2024: Residents in Adelaide’s north, South Australia have been forced to evacuate their homes during Christmas lunch as a grassfire threatened property there. The fire started in a rail corridor and spread south amid hot, dry and windy conditions in the suburb of Smithfield, according to ABC News. The Metropolitan Fire Service […]
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