The less-infamous greenhouse gas is also a problem to be reckoned with.
Climate experts are sounding the alarm on the role methane emissions play in global warming. Atmospheric concentrations of…
It was bound to happen. With temperatures rising year after year, largely as an effect of man-made greenhouse gas emissions, multiple parts of the globe have broken temperature records. Now, NOAA has…
As wildfires swept through the Italian island of Sicily, fueled by an extreme heatwave, officials in one city recorded on Wednesday what is believed to be the highest temperature ever recorded in…
The COVID pandemic has shown the fragility of our global food supply chains, with many supermarkets and restaurants in almost every country having experienced food shortages. Millions of people in…
Overlapping crises have pushed the fragile east African country to the ‘cusp of humanitarian catastrophe’, with one in four facing food insecurity.
Such was the horror that erupted in her village…
A giant pink table inviting Londoners to “come to the table” and discuss climate change has been erected by Extinction Rebellion protesters near Leicester Square.
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges. Rising global temperatures are causing more frequent severe weather events, including wildfires and floods, capable of massive disruption that sweeps…
Dark roofing will be banned in Sydney’s south-west growth area in an attempt by the NSW government to dial back the heat island effect while providing sorely needed new homes.
Lighter coloured roofs…
Rainforest lost 10,476 sq km between August 2020 and July 2021, report says, despite increasing global concern
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has hit the highest annual level in a decade, a …
The UK’s long-awaited hydrogen strategy has set out the government’s plans for “a world-leading hydrogen economy” that it says would generate £900 million (US$1.2 million) and create over 9,000 jobs…
Πλημμύρες, ξηρασίες και πυρκαγιές θα επιδεινωθούν καθώς η παγκόσμια θέρμανση διαταράσσει τον κύκλο του νερού στον πλανήτη.
Τα προβλήματα που σχετίζονται με τα ύδατα - η ξηρασία, με τις πυρκαγιές που…
A new study is warning that many of the “questionably optimistic” scenarios in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s 2018 special report on 1.5°C pathways were unrealistic, and those…
Spring 2060. In dark glasses, a wide sunhat and with what little exposed skin left caked in sun cream, a child stares at the woodland across from their house. It looks scraggly and stunted, and with…
The junior trader at TotalEnergies SE was essentially winging it by orchestrating the French energy giant’s first shipment of “carbon-neutral” natural gas last September. It’s the greenest-possible…
Πριν λίγες μέρες, στις 9 Αυγούστου 2021, κυκλοφόρησε η 6η Έκθεση της «Διακυβερνητικής Επιτροπής για την Κλιματική Αλλαγή» (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC) του ΟΗΕ. H Έκθεση μιλάει…
Agricultural runoff from farms and livestock operations creates oxygen-depleted areas inhospitable to animal and plant life
Scientists recently surveyed the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico around…
Shapps repeats the fairytale that we will be walking and cycling for almost half of all trips in our cities and towns by 2030. But there was not a penny in his plan to support this, writes Donnachadh…
Alexandria, Egypt’s second-largest city and ancient capital, has long been threatened by rising sea levels. But in recent years, the rise has accelerated rapidly, endangering the economy, lives and…
Many scientific findings continue to be disputed by politicians and parts of the public long after a scholarly consensus has been established. For example, nearly a third of Americans still do not…