Sat 01 July 2023: The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months of record-breaking heat on land and sea. As envoys gathered in Bonn in early June to prepare for this year’s […]
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Tue 27 June 2023: Desertification in Iraq has now reached almost 70 per cent, according to a report published yesterday by Iraqi News. The report, citing an earlier one by Rudaw Arabic, said that Haider Fleih, an official in the Environment Directorate in Najaf governorate, attributed the rising rate of desertification to poor water flow from neighbouring […]
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Thu 22 June 2023: South African climate experts have called on governments, businesses and communities to increase their awareness of the pending El Niño that is currently manifesting in the central Pacific Ocean. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is defined as one of the most important climate phenomena due to its ability to influence global […]
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Mon 12 June 2023: Thousands of fish washed ashore along the Texas Gulf Coast due to “a low dissolved oxygen event” in warm water, officials have said. Quintana Beach County Park officials said on Sunday that the species most impacted by this fish kill was the Gulf menhaden, adding that the pedestrian beach is mostly […]
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Thu 08 June 2023: A “very unhealthy” air quality alert was issued for Washington, DC on Thursday over the impact of ongoing Canadian wildfires. “During a Code Purple alert, the air quality is very unhealthy,” DC Homeland Security and Emergency Management said on Twitter, citing airnow.com, which provides information about air quality. All age groups […]
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Fri 02 June 2023: With 82 blazes burning out of control, Canada confronts a record early wildfire season that has scorched 2.7 million hectares. Canada is facing its most severe early wildfire season on record, with 211 wildfires burning and 82 classified as out of control, the country’s minister of public safety said. Speaking during a news […]
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Fauna from the Clarion-Clipperton Zone [Images from the study How Many Metazoan Species Live in the World’s Largest Mineral Exploration Region?/Current Biology] Mon 29 May 2023: A study has identified more than 5,000 new species living in deep-sea habitats in the Pacific Ocean in a region known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a seabed targeted […]
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Mon 22 May 2023: Extreme weather has caused the deaths of 2 million people and $4.3 trillion in economic damage over the past half a century, a report by the United Nations finds. According to the new figures published on Monday from the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), 11,778 weather-related disasters have occurred from 1970 […]
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Sun 07 May 2023: Some 25,000 Canadians have been forced to flee their homes as 103 wildfires flared across Alberta province, burning in what a top official said was an “unprecedented situation.” Thousands more have been told to be ready to leave on a moment’s notice. The Canadian province — one of the world’s largest […]
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Sun 07 May 2023: Internet users can change their behavior to reduce the carbon footprint of online digital technologies, which account for 3.7% of total greenhouse gas emissions, according to recent studies. Energy consumption due to online activities, from streaming TV shows and movies to sending emails, increases by an average 9% every year, according […]
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