Environment

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 20:38 UTC

  AOSIS countries want oil companies to fund climate action through taxation

  

  Antigua and Barbuda's Prime Minister Gaston Browne Tuesday launched an appeal on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) for oil companies to pay a “global carbon tax” and thus help undo some of the damage caused climate-change-wise.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 09:34 UTC

  Pesticides and heavy metals detected in Argentine river waters

  

  According to a report from the National Institute of Agropecuarian Technology (INTA) and the national universities of San Martín (Unsam) and of the Litoral (UNL), a high number of biocides was detected in the Salado River basin in the province of Santa Fe.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 08:52 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey participating at the UN COP27 convention in Egypt

  

  British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists will participate in the 27th session of the United Nations National Framework Convention on Climate Change, hosted by the Arab Republic of Egypt until 18 November 2022 at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre.

• Tuesday, November 8th 2022 - 03:51 UTC

  Macron and Maduro bump into each other at COP27

  

  Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Emmanuel Macron of France held a conversation on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit at the Egyptian Red Sea por of Sharm l-Sheikh during which they agreed to work together toward mutual environmental goals.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  World Meteorological Organization: Grim forecast at the launching of COP27

  

  Earth's warming weather and rising seas are getting worse, with the situation deteriorating faster than ever, the World Meteorological Organization revealed in a new report.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 07:57 UTC

  Maduro lands in Sharm El-Sheikh

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, who rarely travels abroad except to friendly countries, Sunday landed at the Egyptian port city of Sharm el-Sheikh to participate in the COP27 Climate Summit.

• Monday, November 7th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  Compensation to poorer countries added to COP27 agenda

  

  Dignitaries at the Egyptian port of Sharm El-Sheikh Sunday concurred on the opening day of the UN Conference of the Parties (COP27) Climate Summit on the need to discuss compensation by the world's wealthier nations for damages stemming from practices that were detrimental to the environment and have thus prompted the current climate change crisis.

• Saturday, November 5th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

  BAS has launched its Antarctic field season with an ambitious range of projects

  

  The British Antarctic Survey, BAS, Antarctic field season has begun, with a challenging and ambitious range of projects to be delivered at five BAS research stations and across the wider continent. Over 500 people are working in Antarctica this season on BAS research stations, on RRS Sir David Attenborough, in the field and in collaboration with other Antarctic operators.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2022 - 20:40 UTC

  One-third of the world's glaciers will be soon gone, UNESCO warns

  

  A UNESCO study released Thursday has shown that one-third of the glaciers worldwide are bound to disappear due to global warming.

• Thursday, November 3rd 2022 - 10:23 UTC

  WMO warns temperatures in Europe rising twice as fast

  

  Temperatures in Europe have gone up at a pace of about 0.5 °C per decade between 1991 and 2021, according to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the European climate change service Copernicus.