Tag: Climate change

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 15:52 UTC

  Chilean agriculture and fruit producers suffering the hydric crisis

  

  Chile faces a “state of shock in agriculture and fruit growing” because of the severity of the hydric crisis and sustained drought, to which must be added the driest July in the country's history, pointed out the president of the Chilean Federation of Fruit Producers, Jorge Valenzuela.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 08:30 UTC

  UN climate change report heralds “unprecedented” disasters

  

  A new study released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) foresee the planet's temperature would reach +1.5 ºC compàred to pre-industrial levels by the year 2030, which is ten years earlier than forecast in 2018.

• Wednesday, July 28th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Meteorologists meet to prepare report for the UN Glasgow climate change negotiations summit

  

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, opened its meeting on Monday to approve its next report on the physical science basis of climate change, the first part of the Sixth Assessment Report.

• Tuesday, July 20th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Europe's push for drastic shift towards electric vehicles may find objections

  

  The European Commission has voted last week to ban the sale of vehicles that run on gasoline or diesel by the year 2035 to change the energy matrix in transport.

• Friday, July 16th 2021 - 09:04 UTC

  Paraná river reaches historic lows; worst part far from over

  

  The Paraná River had descended yet another three centimeters over the last 24 hours in front of the former capital of Argentina named after it (1853-1860) for a total of 17 centimeters below sea level.

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 00:20 UTC

  Melt lakes: Scientists detect sudden large Antarctic water mass drains empty

  

  Scientists in Australia and the United States are reporting the sudden loss of a large ice-covered Antarctic lake covering an area of eleven square kilometres. The rare event occurred during the winter of 2019 on Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica and was noticed in satellite images the following summer by Dr Roland Warner from the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership at the University of Tasmania.

• Wednesday, June 30th 2021 - 09:13 UTC

  Floods and droughts mean yearly losses worth US $ 1 billion for Argentina, says World Bank

  

  A new report titled “Impact of Climate Crisis on Poverty and the Argentine macroeconomy” points out the serious consequences of the impact of climate change on the Argentine economy, mainly due to losses caused by floods and droughts, the World Bank announced Tuesday.

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  Over £8m boost for international conservation in UK Overseas Territories

  

  Over £8 million new funding to protect rare wildlife and vulnerable habitats across the globe. Threatened species such as whales, marine turtles and sharks will be better-protected thanks to a boost of over £8 million for projects in the UK Overseas Territories, the British government announced on Saturday 5 June under plans to tackle the global biodiversity crisis.

• Monday, May 31st 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Clean energy summit ready to start virtually in Santiago, Chile

  

  The Global Clean Energy Summit is to be held for the first time in Latin America and it is due to span from Monday, May 31, through Friday, June 4 in Santiago, Chile, albeit in a virtual format.

• Friday, May 28th 2021 - 02:10 UTC

  Farmers beware: Climate activist Greta Thunberg targets food production and consumption

  

  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has set her sights on changing how the world produces and consumes food in order to counteract: carbon emissions, disease outbreaks, and animal suffering.