Avainsana: climate change
Wildlife habitat destruction and deforestation will cause more deadly pandemics like coronavirus, scientists warn
As climate change contributes to a surge in disease outbreaks across the world, scientists warn that current rates of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss will…
Caught between climate and virus threats, migrants have no safe place to go
Ali Mohammad, a 50-year-old Afghan nomad, lost most of his sheep to a harsh drought in 2018. The following year, his home was destroyed by…
Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070
More than three billion people will be living in places with ”near un-liveable” temperatures by 2070, according to a new study. Unless greenhouse gas emissions…
Young people face ’altered world’, say lawyers for child climate case
Young people face a ”fundamentally altered world” that threatens their human rights and safety unless governments take effective action to curb climate change, lawyers for…
Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070
More than three billion people will be living in places with ”near un-liveable” temperatures by 2070, according to a new study. Unless greenhouse gas emissions…
One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study
The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people…
Climate change threatens drinking water quality across the Great Lakes
“Do Not Drink/Do Not Boil” is not what anyone wants to hear about their city’s tap water. But the combined effects of climate change and…
Women act as ‘agents of change’ in climate emergency
Women around the world can act as “agents of change” and find solutions to the challenges provoked by the global climate crisis, according to the…
Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began
This year is on course to be the world’s hottest since measurements began, according to meteorologists, who estimate there is a 50% to 75% chance…
“Water and Climate Change” – Indonesian youth create original videos to mark the World Water Day
“We know that by 2050, more than half of the world’s population could live in the regions subject to water stress due to the acceleration…
United Nations Says Global Emissions Likely to Increase Post-Pandemic
Carbon dioxide emissions have plunged as covid-19 slows commercial and industrial activity. But that drop is probably just temporary, the United Nations warned this week….
Fall in COVID-linked carbon emissions won’t halt climate change – UN weather agency chief
An expected drop in greenhouse gas emissions linked to the global economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is only “short-term good news”, the head…
Climate change: 2019 was Europe’s warmest year on record
Europe is heating faster than the global average as new data indicates that last year was the warmest on record. While globally the year was…
Flooding will affect double the number of people worldwide by 2030
New research finds 147 million will be hit by floods by the end of the decade – ‘the numbers will be catastrophic’. The number of…
North Pole Will Be Ice-Free In Summer
Summer Arctic sea-ice is predicted to disappear before 2050, resulting in devastating consequences for the Arctic ecosystem. The efficacy of climate-protection measures will determine how…
Eleven of the 12 hottest years on record occurred since the year 2000, study finds
Eleven of the 12 warmest years on record have occurred since the year 2000 with last year being the warmest ever for Europe, according to…
S&P Dow Jones Indices launches climate change index range
S&P Dow Jones Indices (SPDJI) has launched two indices with climate and sustainability-based objectives as part of a Paris-aligned and climate transition index range. The…
Reducing food waste emerges as key climate solution
Food waste’s role in climate change has long been a driving topic for publications like BioCycle, as well as for environmental groups, organics recyclers and…
Climate change: Blue skies pushed Greenland ’into the red’
While high temperatures were critical to the melting seen in Greenland last year, scientists say that clear blue skies also played a key role. In…
Investors plan to push Total to do more on climate change
A group of eleven investors representing around 1.35% of energy major Total’s capital said on Wednesday the company needed to do more to meet its…
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