Tag: Climate change

• Friday, September 9th 2022 - 08:08 UTC

  The 2022 summer was the hottest in Europe's recorded history

  

  The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe's recorded history, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) announced on Thursday. It is the second summer in a row of record-breaking temperatures in Europe.

• Saturday, August 13th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Arctic flights to shed light on sea ice and storm links

  

  Scientists are flying research aircraft through the heart of Arctic storms this summer to better understand how weather systems are affecting polar sea ice. Arctic cyclones are the main type of hazardous weather that affect the polar environment during summer. They can impact sea ice movement and trigger rapid ice loss, effects that themselves influence the development of cyclones.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 05:07 UTC

  Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon still high despite ongoing decline

  

  According to satellite imagery data released Friday, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remained high despite a slight decline.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Increased levels of fluorinated chemicals in Antarctic snow cores, scientific research

  

  Scientists have recorded markedly increased levels of ‘fluorinated forever chemicals’ in Antarctic snow which are thought to have originated from the use of CFC-replacements.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Downspout threatens Paraguay's foreign trade yet again

  

  Paraguayan exporters have decried over this weekend their latent concern about the Paraguay and Parana rivers' low levels which might affect the grain season in January and February if no improvement is recorded, it was reported in Asunción.

• Saturday, July 23rd 2022 - 10:31 UTC

  Latin America up for increasingly worsening weather

  

  The consequences of climate change will continue to worsen in Latin America and the Caribbean, affecting health, development, and food supplies, according to a report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Friday.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Extreme temperatures in Antarctica and annual loss of 150 billion tons of ice

  

  By BAS Atmosphere, Ice and Climate Change team, Floor van Heuvel, Ella Gilbert, Thomas Caton-Harrison, Ryan Williams, Tom Bracegirdle

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Uruguay records coldest, driest June in decades

  

  Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) reported Monday that this year's was the coldest June in the last 41 years “with a countrywide anomaly of -2.3°C.”

• Wednesday, June 29th 2022 - 10:07 UTC

  United Nations “Ocean emergency” conference opens in Lisbon

  

  With climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution exacting a devastating toll on the world’s ocean — critical to food security, economic growth, and the environment — the 2022 UN Ocean Conference opened in Lisbon, Portugal with a call for a new chapter of ocean action driven by science, technology and innovation.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  New Zealand korora penguins dying because of climate change with food more difficult to reach

  

  Small bodies of hundreds of penguins have washed ashore on the northernmost coasts of New Zealand, and although their deaths were at first a mystery, researchers now think they understand why the kororā, or little blue penguins are dying.