Mon 11 August 2025: With the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 5.2) on Plastic Pollution underway in Geneva, Switzerland, South Africa has reaffirmed its support for a legally binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is already harming communities, economies and ecosystems – from land to rivers to oceans. “Plastic […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: Global food prices are on the rise with extreme weather conditions caused by climate change, as prices of coffee, cocoa, and rice increased in various countries as a result of floods, storms, and high temperatures. The impact of climate change on food prices, based on various reports from different countries, was evaluated in […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: French Prime Minister François Bayrou called the raging wildfire in southern France’s Aude region a “catastrophe on an unprecedented scale,” tying it directly to climate change and prolonged drought. Visiting the devastated area, where flames have consumed a region larger than Paris, Bayrou highlighted the crisis’s severity. Since Tuesday, the inferno […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: A giant hole on the Sun‘s surface has ejected a record amount of rare helium-3 gas into space. In October 2023, this gas was measured at a concentration 180,000 times higher than normal, marking a significant discovery that could unlock new insights into the Sun’s mysteries. Toward the end of October 2023, astronomers detected […]
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Mon 04 August 2025: Plastic pollution causes more than $1.5 trillion in health-related economic damage annually and contributes to disease and death at every stage of life, according to a new review published on Sunday in the medical journal The Lancet. “The world is in a plastics crisis,” the authors wrote. “But it is not […]
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Sun 03 August 2025: The pyramid, located in the Ihuatzio Archaeological Zone, was one of the best-preserved remnants of the P’urhépecha Kingdom, the only empire never conquered by the Aztecs. The P’urhépecha culture still survives today. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) blamed recent extreme weather, noting that intense heat followed by drought created cracks in the […]
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Fri 01 August 2025: People may be inhaling more than 100 times the amount of microplastics previously estimated, with adults breathing in around 68,000 plastic particles per day from both indoor and outdoor air, researchers said in a new study. The findings, published in the journal PLOS One, highlight the underestimated scale of airborne microplastic […]
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Fri 01 August 2025: Ethiopia said on Thursday that it planted 700 million tree seedlings in a single day as part of its national reforestation programme, the Green Legacy Initiative. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who launched the initiative in 2019, said the effort was more than a one-time campaign and has become a national culture […]
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Sun 27 July 2025: Record-breaking temperatures scorched parts of the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia, the US, and the Middle East this week, with forecasters warning that the extreme heat will persist in the coming days. Data compiled by Anadolu showed that the heat, which began intensifying in early June, has returned across the Mediterranean and parts […]
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Sun 27 July 2025: Greek official says ‘real difficulties’ ahead as dry conditions and high temperatures are expected to persist. A wildfire has burned through a northern suburb of the Greek capital of Athens, leading to the evacuation of some residents, the country’s Fire Service has reported. Residents of the town of Kryoneri, 20km (12.5 […]
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