Tag: Climate change

• Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

  After violent storms, Brazil faces ongoing cyclone threat — severe weather also forecast in Argentina

  

  Following a powerful extratropical cyclone that swept across south-central Brazil last week —bringing heavy storms and a tornado that devastated parts of Paraná and Santa Catarina— meteorologists are warning that the country faces a continued risk of similar weather events through the end of the year.

• Tuesday, November 11th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  COP30 starts in Belem with a focus on accelerated global warming

  

  The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change officially kicked off in the city of Belém (Brazil), marking the first time the global climate summit has been held in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The meeting, set to run for two weeks, brings together world leaders from 163 countries to address the urgent crisis of global warming.

• Thursday, August 28th 2025 - 10:10 UTC

  Brazilian and French scientists tackle climate change in Amazon

  

  Researchers from France and Brazil are meeting this week in Belém, in the State of Pará, to launch a new season of the Amazon Connections Seminar addressing the planet’s future from scientific, cultural, and political perspectives. The gathering will span until Aug. 29 at the Emílio Goeldi Museum in Belém, the host city of COP30, as part of the bilateral agenda held each year in two seasons—one in each country.

• Monday, August 18th 2025 - 09:31 UTC

  Al Gore says Washington has “schizophrenic” approach to climate change

  

  During his recent trip to Brazil, former US Vice President Al Gore said that his country's stance on the climate crisis was “schizophrenic,” changing from one view to another, depending on who ruled. In his first term in office, between 2017 and 2021, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, whose main objective is to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But then came Joseph Biden, and the country returned to the agreement, only to pull out yet again with Trump's second term.

• Monday, August 18th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

  Bad weather expected in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina

  

  Weather forecasters in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina foresee stormy conditions early this week due to an extratropical cyclone expected to bring severe havoc to the region.

• Friday, August 8th 2025 - 09:20 UTC

  Deforestation drops in Cerrado but grows in Amazon

  

  Over the past 12 months, deforestation in Brazil’s Cerrado biome dropped by 20%, while the Amazon saw a 4% rise in alerts. In the Amazon, alerts covered 4,495 square kilometers—up from 4,321 km² in the previous period. Despite the uptick, this figure represents the second-lowest level recorded in the historical data series.

• Sunday, July 6th 2025 - 11:58 UTC

  Today Tuvalu’s Climate change visas; tomorrow extensive to the World’s?

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. Last week’s big change saw the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas. It’s a way of giving potential climate refugees some hope and some dignity, and it would certainly be an improvement on the current migration mess.

• Friday, June 27th 2025 - 10:12 UTC

  BRICS scientists want climate network created

  

  A forum of Academies of Science of the BRICS bloc in Rio de Janeiro issued a declaration this week proposing the creation of a network of member countries to implement climate solutions, focusing on energy transition technologies and the development of joint artificial intelligence programs.

• Thursday, June 12th 2025 - 09:42 UTC

  Record high temperatures hit Greenland and Iceland, Copernicus Observatory warns

  

  Greenland experienced a melting rate 17 times faster than average last month due to record-high temperatures, while Iceland saw temperatures exceed 26°C, the European Copernicus Observatory reported this week.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 10:52 UTC

  Brazil accounted for most of the world's forest fires last year

  

  Brazil topped the world last year in forest fires, accounting for 42% of the global loss of primary tropical forests. The extreme heat of the year, exacerbated by climate change and El Niño, intensified fires, which destroyed more forest than agribusiness activities for the first time. The worst drought ever recorded contributed to a sixfold increase in fire-related deforestation compared to 2023.