Tag: Climate change

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Climate activists protest outside Brazil embassy in London; PM Johnson described fires as “an international crisis”

  

  Climate change activists chanting slogans and waving banners demonstrated outside Brazil's embassy in London on Friday, urging President Jair Bolsonaro to do more to halt the fires in the Amazon rainforest.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Deforestation: Brazil Amazon states want to deal directly with Norway and Germany

  

  Brazilian states containing the country’s Amazon rainforest said they want to negotiate directly with European nations who fund projects to curb deforestation after changes proposed by the federal government led Norway and Germany to suspend donations.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Chile ski stations appeal to snow cannons to fight the ravages of climate change

  

  Once deep in powder, this time of year, Chile's ski stations are fighting the ravages of climate change and pollution that have brought less and less snow to the central Andes. Just a few decades ago, the Andes mountain range could be buried under 4 meters of snow, forcing the closure of access roads and requiring the use of tractors to get around.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  China hopes to welcome the US at the climate change UN summit in Chile

  

  China hopes to welcome the United States “back to the negotiating table” to discuss global efforts to limit climate change at a United Nations summit to be hosted by Chile in December, its top climate change envoy said on Tuesday.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 01:46 UTC

  July 2019, the hottest on record, and Arctic ice shrank to its lowest, NOAA reports

  

  July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally; the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday, while satellite data showed polar ice shrank to its lowest levels.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Sacked head of Brazil's space agency insists that rising deforestation in the Amazon was undeniable

  

  Ricardo Galvao, the sacked head of Brazil’s space research agency, said the trend of sharply rising deforestation was undeniable, a day after he was fired following a public spat with President Jair Bolsonaro over data published by the agency.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Some 20 pilot whales die stranded in Iceland in mysterious circumstances

  

  Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said on Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Last July, the hottest in history according to WMO, after warmest-ever June

  

  The planet endured what may have been the hottest July in history, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Thursday, just a week after a European heatwave shattered all-time records and also coming on the heels of the world's warmest-ever June.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Canada to create an MPA in Arctic region, where climate change is devastating

  

  Canada will create a protected marine area in the country's Arctic region, where climate change is taking effect three times faster than global average, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Thursday. Glacial melting and maritime traffic are threatening multiple species off the coast of Baffin Island, in Canada's northeastern Arctic archipelago.

• Friday, July 26th 2019 - 10:11 UTC

  Northern Europe literally frying in all time high temperatures; train travelers told to delay trips

  

  Paris on Thursday baked in an all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius as a ferocious heatwave smashed records across northern Europe, sparking concerns about public health and causing new misery for rail travellers.