Simon Stiell highlighted that the climate crisis was slipping down a crowded global agenda. New Delhi: The UN Climate Chief, Simon Stiell, stated on Wednesday that governments, business leaders, and development banks have two years to take action to avert far worse climate change. In a speech at the ChathamRead More →
2023 was the planet’s hottest year in global records going back to 1850. (File) Brussels: The world just experienced its warmest March on record, capping a 10-month streak in which every month set a new temperature record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Tuesday. Each of theRead More →
Many warming records were broken in 2023 along with climate disasters such as wildfires, cyclones, droughts, and floods. In this time, the focus of the public narrative – often with the participation of scientists – has often been on whether we crossed the ‘magical’ warming threshold of 1.5 degrees C.Read More →
Scientists attribute the exceptional warming to the combined effects of El Niño. File photo | Photo Credit: AP The world last month experienced the warmest January on record, with the global mean temperature for the past 12 months exceeding the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold, according to the European climate agency. However,Read More →
The year 2023 saw its fair share of disastrous events. In 2023, the world experienced a notable surge in both the occurrence and severity of natural disasters, ranging from the Turkey-Syria earthquake to flooding in South Africa and wildfires in Algeria. This year was characterized by a series of impactfulRead More →
Rescuers remove mud and debris as they search for people feared trapped after a landslide near a temple on the outskirts of Shimla, Himachal Pradesh state, Monday, August 14, 2023. Heavy monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides in India’s Himalayan region, leaving more than a dozen people dead and manyRead More →
In eastern Saudi Arabia, beachfront resorts offer one way to beat the heat. Baghdad: Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat. – A tool of the trade inRead More →
People cool off by the Bosphorus to escape hot weather in Istanbul, Turkey. (File) Rome: Record heat is forecast around the world from the United States, where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan, in the latest example of the threat from global warming. ItalyRead More →
Scientists said climate change, combined with an emerging El Nino pattern, was to blame. July 3, was the hottest day ever recorded globally, according to data from the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees Celsius (62.62 Fahrenheit), surpassing the August 2016 record ofRead More →
The report was produced to fulfil a congressional mandate New research published on the White House website says that the Biden administration is open to studying how to block sunlight to save the Earth from climate change. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released a federally mandatedRead More →
