Tag: Climate change

• Wednesday, April 29th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  Ozone layer hole over the Arctic has closed and has been linked to Europe's warmest winter

  

  The largest hole ever observed in the ozone layer over the Arctic has closed, says Copernicus' Atmospheric Monitoring Service. Scientists spotted signs in late March of a rare hole forming and it was thought to be the result of low temperatures at the north pole.

• Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  2019 was the hottest year in history across Europe; records shattered by heat waves

  

  Last year was the hottest in history across Europe as temperature records were shattered by several extreme heatwaves, the European Union's satellite monitoring surface said. In its annual report on the state of the climate, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that 11 of the continent's 12 warmest years on record have been since 2000 as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2020 - 06:35 UTC

  UN chief urges governments to address climate change emergency, on 50th anniversary of Earth Day

  

  United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged governments to use their economic responses to the coronavirus pandemic to tackle the “even deeper emergency” of climate change, in a message for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 07:34 UTC

  March 2020, the driest March in Falklands on record

  

  March 2020 was the driest March on record according to data from the Met Office at Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falkland Islands, with rainfall less than a third of the monthly average.

• Monday, March 30th 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Cleaner air in European cities as nitrogen dioxide levels drop with lockdowns

  

  Air pollution has decreased in urban areas across Europe during lockdowns to combat the corona-virus, new satellite images showed on Monday, but campaigners warned city-dwellers were still more vulnerable to the epidemic. Cities including Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Milan and Frankfurt showed a reduction in average levels of noxious nitrogen dioxide over Mar 5-25, compared with the same period last year, according to the Sentinel-5 satellite images.

• Saturday, March 28th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  A bright sight from coronavirus: industry and transport emissions in three EU cities down 40%

  

  Air pollution from nitrogen dioxide has fallen by an estimated 40% in three European cities, according to new satellite data released by the European Space Agency (ESA), coinciding with a widespread lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Some of the things Covid 19 can be expected to change

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase “…X has changed the world forever”. Or at least they should. Covid-19 is certainly not going to change the world forever, but it is going to change quite a few things, in some cases for a long time. Here’s eight of them, in no particular order.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:43 UTC

  World Water Day, everyone has a role to play, Antonio Guterres

  

  The world’s water resources are under unprecedented threat. Today, some 2.2 billion people lack safe drinking water and 4.2 billion people live without access to adequate sanitation. Unless we act with urgency, the impacts of climate change are projected to exacerbate these figures. By 2050, between 3.5 and 4.4 billion people will live with limited access to water, with more than 1 billion of them living in cities.

• Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:36 UTC

  On World Water Day, UN launches flagship report on climate change

  

  On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth’s limited water resources.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Five Latin American countries planning to issue green bonds

  

  At least five Latin American governments and several companies are considering debt sales to fund environmentally friendly projects in what is expected to be the region’s most active year for the issuance of so-called green bonds since 2017.