Tag: Climate change

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 19:30 UTC

  Africa accounts for only 4% of world emissions, Congo authorities warn

  

  Democratic Republic of Congo Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde Environment Minister Eve Bazaïba underlined that the African continent was “responsible for only 4% of world emissions” of greenhouse gases.

• Friday, September 16th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  This winter among the coldest in Uruguay's last 42 years

  

  Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) released this week a report according to which the 2022 winter was the ninth coldest in the last 42 years.

• 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.”