Fri 22 March 2024: UN agencies have warned in a new report that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is defined as discarded devices with a plug or battery, including mobile phones, electronic toys, TVs, […]
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Tue 19 March 2024: More than 3,300 people have been evacuated as a wildfire spreads through a Tibetan-populated county in China’s Sichuan province, Chinese state media and three people with knowledge of the situation said Monday. The fire that started on Friday in the rural area of Yajiang County in the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture […]
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The crisis disproportionately affects Mongolian families with smaller herds, the Red Cross said [Courtesy of Mongolian Red Cross Society] Tue 19 March 2024: Mongolian herders have endured months of extreme cold, known as the “dzud”, that have already claimed the lives of about 4.7 million livestock animals, according to Mongolia’s Emergency Operations Centre (EOC), […]
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Sun 17 March 2024: Local media in the seaside town of Grindavik, Iceland, reported on Sunday that residents had witnessed their fourth volcanic explosion in the previous three months. The Grindavikurvegur, which connects the southwest town to the rest of the Reykjanes Peninsula, has seen lava flow over it, as reported by state radio RUV. […]
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Fri 15 March 2024: The demand for natural gas is expected to rise by 34% globally in 2050 compared to 2022, to a volume of about 5,360 billion cubic meters. The 2050 Outlook report from the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) estimates that natural gas consumption would be approximately 4,015 billion cubic meters worldwide in […]
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Wed 13 March 2024: Europe urgently needs stronger measures to respond to climate change risks, a new report has warned. The 32-paged assessment, published on Monday by the European Environment Agency (EEA), asserted that the bloc is not prepared to respond to the increasingly severe risks that climate change poses. The policy adviser’s first-ever report on the […]
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Sun 10 March 2024: Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government worked toward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030. According to preliminary satellite data from space research agency INPE, 226 square km (87 square miles) of the world’s […]
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Thu 07 March 2024: Last month’s ocean temperatures reached a record high and it was also the warmest February on record worldwide, according to scientists in the European Union. In February, the average worldwide sea surface temperature was 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit), breaking the previous high of 20.98C (69.77F) set in August 2023 […]
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Wed 06 March 2024: A study from Sri Lanka suggests climate change will spark a rise in the numbers of people receiving snakebites. In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting story about racism. In the story, a striped […]
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Sun 03 March 2024: World Wildlife Day 2024: World Wildlife Day is observed annually on March 3 to raise awareness about the importance of protecting wildlife and their habitats. Protecting wildlife is essential not only for the survival of individual species but also for the well-being of human societies. Healthy ecosystems support human livelihoods by providing […]
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