Tag: Climate change

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Pope Francis urges nations to fight global warming: “creation is groaning”

  

  Pope Francis on Tuesday urged nations to fight global warming according to the 2015 Paris climate accord, weighing in on issues that figure in the US presidential race. Modern society had pushed the planet beyond its limits and the time to fix a climate emergency was running out, he said.

• Tuesday, August 25th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Why the pandemic’s pause on travel could be a defining moment for rethinking Antarctic tourism

  

  By Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic (*) – The current pause on international travel could be an important moment for the international community to rethink the future development of Antarctic tourism, says an expert on the region.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Earth Overshoot Day will be reached next Saturday, according to Global Footprint Network scientists

  

  Humanity will have burned through all the natural resources that the planet can replenish for 2020 by Saturday Aug 22, according to researchers who said the grim milestone is slightly later than last year after the pandemic slowed runaway overconsumption.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Some 21 million tons of micro plastic floating in the Atlantic ocean

  

  There are 12-21 million tons of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have found. A study, led by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, scooped through layers of the upper 200m of the ocean during a research expedition through the middle of the Atlantic.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Hottest temperature in at least a century on Sunday in Death Valley, Mojave Desert

  

  One of the hottest air temperatures recorded anywhere on the planet in at least a century, and possibly ever, was reached on Sunday afternoon at Death Valley in California’s Mojave Desert where it soared to 130 Fahrenheit (54.4 Celsius).

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  Climate change could trigger epidemics: malaria, dengue, zika, smallpox and pathogens from Siberian permafrost

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept the globe and claimed more than 760,000 lives so far almost certainly came from a wild bat, highlighting the danger of humanity's constant encroachment on the planet's dwindling wild spaces.

• Monday, August 3rd 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Lawsuit against Australia for failing to disclose climate-change risks to its sovereign bond purchasers

  

  A 23-year-old student has filed a lawsuit against Australia's government alleging it has failed to disclose climate change-related risks to investors in the country's sovereign bonds, in the first such action against the Australian government.

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch satellite to monitor logging of native forests mainly in Chaco

  

  Argentina plans to put into orbit a satellite with new precision technology sometime this week, to monitor the felling of its native forests round the clock and accurately measure forest carbon stocks in a bid to help curb climate change, scientists said.

• Tuesday, July 21st 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Climate change starving polar bears to extinction, according to latest report

  

  Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published on Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime.

• Thursday, July 16th 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  Report on per capita carbon “food prints” criticizes beef and dairy consumption

  

  If everyone alive ate steaks and dairy the way Brazilians and Americans do, we would need an extra five planets to feed the world, according to the first report to compare the carbon emissions from food consumption in Group of Twenty (G20) nations, released on Thursday.