Environment

• 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.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 20:13 UTC

  PM Sunak now says he will attend COP27

  

  British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak finally changed his mind once again and announced Wednesday that he will be attending the COP27 Climate Summit later this week in Egypt.

• Wednesday, November 2nd 2022 - 10:45 UTC

  Lula and Biden share common views during phone call

  

  US President Joseph Biden and Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva held a telephone conversation during which they concurred on several issues, it was reported.

• Monday, October 31st 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Energy security or clean energy: Germany dismantles wind farm to expand lignite coal mine

  

  With winter around the corner and Europe giving priority to energy security over clean energy in German a wind farm is being dismantled to make way for an expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine.