Tue 21 March 2023: Even if planet-warming emissions rapidly decline, the record-breaking temperatures of the past eight years will rank among the coolest in the next three to four decades as global temperatures rise, according to a UN report released on Monday. “The warmest years we have experienced to date will be among the coolest […]
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Mon 20 March 2023: Children’s lives are in danger worldwide due to contaminated drinking water and a lack of sanitary infrastructure, according to UNICEF, the UN agency for children. According to a UNICEF report released in New York on Monday, more than 1,000 children under the age of five die each day from diseases brought […]
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Sun 19 March 2023: Cyclone Freddy, which developed over the Indian Ocean more than a month ago, has dissipated this week, after making landfall a second time in southern Africa. According to authorities in Malawi, Mozambique, and Madagascar, the death toll in Southeast Africa as a result of the exceptionally long-lasting Tropical Cyclone Freddy has […]
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Sat 18 March 2023: When a blazing heatwave sweeps over the area, millions of dead and rotting fish have choked up a long stretch of river close to a remote town in the Australian outback. Videos posted on social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the surface […]
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Tue 14 March 2023: Lahore in Pakistan has jumped more than 10 places to become the city with the worst air in the world in 2022, according to an annual global survey by a Swiss maker of air purifiers. The report published on Tuesday by IQAir also said Pakistan stood third among the countries with […]
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Sat 11 March 2023: According to new data from the nation’s National Space Agency, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jungle reached a record level in February (INPE) According to the data from the DETER System by INPE, 322 square kilometers (79,568 acres) of the jungle were deforested in February. In comparison to February 2022, when 199 […]
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Thu 09 March 2023: Ice in the Antarctic sea reached its lowest monthly extent in February, breaking a previous record from 2017, the European Union’s climate monitoring service has said. In a report released on Tuesday, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that Antarctic sea ice shrunk 34 percent below the average for February. “Our latest […]
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Wed 08 March 2023: Plastics entering the world’s oceans have surged by an “unprecedented” amount since 2005 and could nearly triple by 2040 if no further action is taken, according to research published on Wednesday. An estimated 171 trillion plastic particles were afloat in the oceans by 2019, according to peer-reviewed research led by the 5 Gyres Institute, […]
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Thu 02 March 2023: Toilet paper is an unexpected source of potentially harmful “forever chemicals” in wastewater across the globe and could be leaching into soils via sewage, a new study on Wednesday said. “Forever chemicals”, or PFAS, are found in cosmetics, non-stick cookware and waterproof clothing. They have been linked to several types of […]
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Sun 26 February 2023: New research suggests that lung function development can improve in children if air pollution is reduced. The reduction in pollution will also bring down the number of young people who suffer from pulmonary impairments. In recent years, the impact of air pollution on health has remained a topic of concern with the […]
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