The Emissions Gap Report 2024, titled No more hot air… please! is a stark reminder that if nations don’t boost their climate efforts quickly, our planet will warm beyond the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement, making it a thing of the past. This latest edition, the 15th in the series, gathers insights from top […]
After experts confirmed that July was on course to be the world’s hottest month on record, UN Secretary General António Guterres declared that the era of global warming was over and that “the era of global boiling has arrived.” Guterres’ remarks were prompted after scientists confirmed on Thursday that the previous three weeks were the […]
New York: Sixty million years of climate change triggered the meteoric rise of reptiles around 250 million years ago, not a mass extinction of mammals as previously thought, a new Harvard University-led study has said. Just over 250 million years ago, during the end of the Permian period, and the start of the Triassic, reptiles’ […]
With temperatures rising north of the barometer worldwide due to global warming, locals in Scotland have aimed to save the River Dee salmons. Salmon is known as cold-water fish, with a recommended spawning temperature range of 4oC to 10oC. Let alone hatching, the rising temperature of the water also puts the salmon eggs in danger […]
It’s every climber’s dream – conquering the mighty Mount Everest. Since long before the world’s highest peak was first conquered in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, mountaineers from across the world have travelled to it. From spring to late summer every year, young and old climbers make their way to Nepal to summit […]
Last month was the hottest November on record as Europe basked in its highest Autumn temperatures in history, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said Monday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) analysis of surface and air temperatures found that November 2020 was 0.8C warmer than the 30-year average of 1981-2010 — more than 0.1C […]
Celebrities from filmmaker Ava DuVernay to Britain’s Prince William to the Pope himself issued powerful calls last week calling for people to mobilise and unify to confront the climate crisis. Joining the panel of hosts at the live-streamed, TED Countdown event, were prominent faces from across the board including actors, Mark Ruffalo, and Don Cheadle, […]
Half of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals have died over the past 25 years, scientists said Wednesday, warning that climate change is irreversibly destroying the underwater ecosystem. A study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Journal found an alarming rate of decline across all sizes of corals since the mid-1990s on the vast World […]
