Tag: Climate change

• 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.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 02:14 UTC

  Quad leaders agree to further develop Pacific Ocean island nations

  

  Leaders of the Quad countries (United States, Japan, Australia, and India) Tuesday issued a joint statement from Tokyo in which they pledged to up their efforts towards securing peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  World heading for warmest year on record in the next quinquennium 2022/26, WMO report

  

  There is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level for at least one of the next five years – and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

• Friday, May 6th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Cattle methane gas from belching and flatulence measured from space

  

  Scientists have managed to measure the belching and flatulence of cattle from space. This is considered important since the International Agency of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture estimate that methane from cows' burps and farts has a great influence on climate change and global warming.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 20:00 UTC

  Climate change has NZ sinking - floods to become routine events

  

  Climate change is taking its toll as the sea keeps crawling onto New Zealand's sinking coastline, halving the time authorities thought they had to take action, according to an NZ SeaRise study released earlier this week.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Ocean life to disappear if climate change not addressed, study warns

  

  According to the findings of a study published Thursday in Science, if climate change is not curbed in time, the oceans will suffer a mass extinction as they did some 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period when a meteorite and volcanoes wiped out life on Earth.