Tag: Climate change

• Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Researcher study of seabird ecosystem shift in the Falklands

  

  Roughly 5,000 years ago, seabirds colonized the Falkland Islands in record numbers. The new research – published in the journal Science Advances – suggests the seabirds arrived around the same time that the South Atlantic cooled, and their arrival shifted the ecosystems on the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, October 20th 2020 - 09:38 UTC

  CCAMLR: 287 women scientists call for a Marine Protected Area in western Antarctic Peninsula

  

  Climate change and human activity are harming Antarctica and threatening wildlife from humpback whales to microscopic algae, more than 280 scientists and conservation experts say in urging protections for the icy region.

• Wednesday, October 14th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Pioneer ozone Mexican scientist and Nobel Prize dies

  

  Mario Molina, the winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1995 and the only Mexican scientist to be honored with a Nobel, died last week in his native Mexico City. He was 77 years old.

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  After rejecting Mercosur trade deal on climate demands, EU parliament votes to drastically cut greenhouse gases by 2030

  

  European Union lawmakers have backed a plan to cut greenhouse gases by 60% from 1990 levels by 2030, hoping member states will not try to water the target down during upcoming negotiations.

• Saturday, October 3rd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Energy companies appeal a climate change damages lawsuit which reaches US Supreme Court

  

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by energy companies including BP PLC, Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp, and Royal Dutch Shell PLC contesting a lawsuit by the city of Baltimore seeking damages for the impact of global climate change.

• Friday, September 25th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  If Covid-19 is addressed with the same disunity and disarray as climate change, “I fear the worst”, warns UN head

  

  The United States, China and Russia fought on Thursday during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the coronavirus pandemic after UN chief Antonio Guterres had warned the body that if the climate crisis was approached with the “same disunity and disarray” of COVID-19, then: “I fear the worst.”

• Monday, September 21st 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Group of world's largest corporations call to support nature and fight climate change

  

  Some of the world's biggest companies on Monday backed growing calls for governments to do more to reverse the accelerating destruction of the natural world and support broader efforts to fight climate change.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Huge calving at the Arctic ice shelf: the massive chunk is larger than Paris

  

  A massive chunk of ice - larger than the city of Paris - has broken off from the Arctic's largest ice shelf because of warmer temperatures in Greenland, scientists said on Monday. The 113 sq km block broke off the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden glacier in Northeast Greenland, which the scientists said had been expected given the rising average temperatures.

• Tuesday, September 15th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Trump denies climate change in California; Biden called him a “climate arsonist”

  

  President Donald Trump on Monday suggested global warming will reverse itself and dismissed climate change as a cause of ferocious fires engulfing swaths of the US West, during a briefing in California on the deadly blazes.

• Saturday, September 12th 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Falklands presents “State of Environment 2020” report

  

  The Falkland Islands Government has released of the ‘State of Environment 2020’ report. The publication combines environmental facts and figures to provide a summary of the overall state of the Falkland Islands' natural environment towards the end of 2019.