Tag: Climate change

• 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.

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• Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 10:35 UTC

  Ecological overshoot reported in Chile for the sixth straight year

  

  The Global Footprint Network (GFN) monitoring ecological developments reported that Chile has exhausted its annual natural resources by May 17, 2025, technically known as an “overshoot,” thus becoming the first South American country to do so this year. If global consumption mirrored Chile's, 2.7 Earths would be needed to sustain it, the organization argued.

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• Thursday, April 3rd 2025 - 19:37 UTC

  Brazil's Silva highlights BRICS' potential for just ecological transition

  

  Brazil's Environment and Climate Change Minister Marina Silva Thursday highlighted the BRICS group's potential to lead a just global ecological transition. She made those remarks during the bloc's 11th ministerial meeting in this regard, where issues like desertification, ecosystem preservation, plastic pollution, and climate action aligned with the UN's Agenda 2030 were discussed.

• Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 09:47 UTC

  Glaciers melting rapidly call for action

  

  The world has lost 5% of its ice volume over the past 20 years, with an annual melt of 273 billion tons, according to a recent study by the United Nations (UN) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Regions like Europe (39% loss), the Caucasus and Middle East (35%), and New Zealand (29%) were heavily impacted as all 19 glacier regions globally lost mass in 2024 for the third consecutive year, with the 2022-2024 period marking the largest three-year loss ever, including 450 billion tons in 2022 alone.

• Friday, March 14th 2025 - 19:42 UTC

  FAO: Coffee production down brings prices up to all-time high

  

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a report on Friday stating that global coffee prices hit a 13-year high in December last year, driven by reduced production in major exporting countries due to adverse weather.

• Wednesday, March 12th 2025 - 10:35 UTC

  Brazil outlines guidelines for COP 30

  

  Brazil published this week a letter signed by Ambassador André Correa do Lago and Ana Toni, president and executive director of the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30), unveiling the South American country's vision for the upcoming gathering in Belem.

• Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:42 UTC

  Was last month the hottest ever?

  

  January 2025 was the hottest month ever recorded by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which detected the planet's temperature to be 1.75 degrees Celsius (°C) above pre-industrial levels and 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average for the month, with a surface air temperature of 13.23°C.

• Friday, January 24th 2025 - 21:10 UTC

  Giant iceberg approaching South Georgia stirs fears

  

  A23a, arguably the world’s largest and oldest iceberg which has been wandering through the South Atlantic and headed for the British Overseas Territory of the South Georgia Islands since last month, has been reported not to have changed course this week nor upped nor melted, thus posing a serious threat to the local fauna. Earlier this week, it was spotted 173 miles (280km) away.

• Monday, January 13th 2025 - 06:06 UTC

  Climate change watchdogs concur 2024 was the hottest year ever

  

  Last year was the hottest on record and it even surpassed the global warming limit, the European Union's Copernicus Earth Observation Program and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) concurred. In addition, 2023 and 2024 saw average global temperatures exceed the internationally agreed 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold

• Tuesday, December 31st 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  La Niña projected to take its toll in the Southern Cone

  

  Meteorologists foresee that the La Niña weather phenomenon will not go unnoticed in the Southern Cone next year after the Brazilian agency Metsul reported signs of unusual activity in the Pacific Ocean. The main impact will be reflected in mercurial temperatures, MetSul's warning noted.