Fri 13 October 2023: The global hydrological cycle is spinning out of balance due to human activities, with droughts and extreme rainfall spurring climate change, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday. “Glaciers and ice cover are retreating before our eyes. Rising temperatures have accelerated-and also disrupted-the water cycle,” WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas said […]
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Thu 05 October 2023: Climate change is one of the most profound challenges the world faces, remarked Pope Francis on Wednesday. In his apostolic exhortation, the pope warned that the world is collapsing and may be getting closer to the breaking point, adding that it is indubitable that the impact of climate change will increasingly […]
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A woman in front of her earthquake-damaged house in the old city in Marrakesh. [Fadel Senna/AFP] Wed 04 October 2023: Climate change is detrimental in every imaginable way, negatively affecting the global economy, agriculture, industry, sports and everything else people know, love and make use of, Anadolu Agency reports. But one aspect of this environmental […]
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Workers busy at a shipbreaking yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Tue 03 October 2023: European maritime companies are ditching their old ships for scrap on Bangladeshi beaches in dangerous and polluting conditions that have killed workers pulling them apart, says Human Rights Watch. Bangladesh’s southeastern Sitakunda beaches have emerged as one of the world’s largest […]
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Mon 02 October 2023: European Union (EU) has launched the first phase of its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) aimed at imposing CO2 emissions tariffs on various imported goods, including steel, cement, and more, reported Reuters. This initiative is designed to safeguard the EU’s commitment to sustainability by preventing the influx of environmentally detrimental foreign products […]
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Sat 30 September 2023: Ella Kissi-Debrah’s tragic story serves as a haunting reminder of the deadly consequences of air pollution. In 2013, this nine-year-old succumbed to an acute asthma attack after a life spent within 30 meters of London’s bustling South Circular road, enduring frequent seizures and numerous hospital visits. In 2020, a coroner officially […]
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Tue 26 September 2023: The world’s coldest region recorded the most intense heatwave ever last year, according to a study published last month. In March 2022, temperatures in Eastern Antarctica spiked about 39 degrees Celsius (102.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above the monthly average, said the study “The Largest Ever Recorded Heatwave – Characteristics and Attribution of the Antarctic […]
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Wed 20 September 2023: A series of powerful tidal surges battered coastal areas in South Africa’s Western Cape, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces over the weekend of 16 September. One person died; cars, homes and businesses were damaged. The Conversation Africa asked Jasper Knight, a geoscientist who researches coastal processes, to explain what happened. What drove the flooding? […]
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Thu 14 September 2023: A total of 1,910 environmental activists have been killed between 2012 and 2022, with Latin America holding the highest percentage globally, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) announced Wednesday. Global Witness released a report that revealed statistics on murdered environmental activists ahead of the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28), which will […]
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Mon 11 September 2023: As the G20 nations urged the world to double down on efforts to address climate change during the weekend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday said climate change will not end the world as is being propagated. Reacting to a follower who posted that 14-year-olds are being told climate […]
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