Tag: Climate change

• Thursday, January 11th 2018 - 10:12 UTC

  Weddel seal ends on the mid Atlantic Brazilian island of Trindade

  

  The Brazilian Navy spotted something unusual in the azure waters of the South Atlantic. In 2015, at a remote outpost and biological research station on the island of Trindade, 1,100 kilometers off central Brazil, sailors spotted a small gray seal swimming in the waves. Two days later, they found its body on the island’s Catelha beach. Scientists who went to take a closer look made an astonishing discovery—the corpse was a young Weddell seal.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 10:33 UTC

  Scorched Australia: 2017 third hottest year on record

  

  Australia experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2017, according to the nation's Bureau of Meteorology. The national mean temperature of 22.75C was almost 1C higher than a 1961-1990 baseline, its annual report revealed. Only 2005 and 2013 were warmer, based on records kept for about a century.

• Thursday, March 23rd 2017 - 11:25 UTC

  “Nothing can grow without water,” warns UNICEF, as 600 million children could face extreme shortages

  

  Some 600 million children – or 1 in 4 children worldwide – will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040, according to a UNICEF report released on World Water Day, 22 March.

• Wednesday, October 7th 2015 - 01:51 UTC

  Prince Charles Sustainability charity in Chile for ocean international conference

  

  The Director of The Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit (ISU) which has been set up to reflect The Prince of Wales’ vision and aims in the area of sustainable development, Justin Mundy is in Chile to participate in Our Ocean international conference.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2015 - 09:48 UTC

  Obama unveils his climate change initiative: “no greater challenge to the future of the planet”

  

  US President Barack Obama has unveiled what he called “the biggest, most important step we have ever taken” in tackling climate change. The aim of the revised Clean Power Plan is to cut greenhouse gas emissions from US power stations by nearly a third within 15 years.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 07:48 UTC

  World Medical Association welcomes report on climate change and health

  

  The World Medical Association welcomed the Lancet Commission's latest report on climate change, which it says reiterates the serious concerns of physicians that climate change poses an unacceptably high threat to health.

• Sunday, October 5th 2014 - 10:05 UTC

  Huge gathering or Pacific walruses in Alaska beach because of climate change

  

  Scientists have photographed the largest gathering of Pacific walruses ever recorded, on a beach in northern Alaska, blaming climate change for the estimated 35,000 females and calves huddled beside the Chukchi Sea.

• Friday, May 9th 2014 - 06:13 UTC

  Strong commitment to support Marine Protected Areas in Southern Ocean

  

  The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) joined member states of the Antarctic Treaty, along with observer and expert organizations, in Brasilia this week to discuss measures for the protection of the Antarctic environment.

• Wednesday, May 7th 2014 - 06:32 UTC

  “Climate change, has moved firmly into the present”, warns US official report

  

  The Obama administration released on Tuesday an updated report on how a changing climate has touched every corner of the United States, from oyster growers in Washington State to maple syrup producers in Vermont, and said that urgent action is needed.

• Monday, November 25th 2013 - 07:24 UTC

  Last minute compromise and flexible wording saves UN climate talks in Poland

  

  UN climate talks in Poland have ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming. After 30 hours of deadlock, they approved a pathway to a new global climate treaty in Paris in 2015. The agreement was achieved after a series of last minute compromises often involving single words in draft texts.