GENEVA (AA/AFP) – Humanity now faces an 80 percent chance that Earth’s temperatures will at least temporarily exceed the key 1.5-degree Celsius mark during the next five years, the UN predicted Wednesday. The global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2024 and 2028 is predicted to be between 1.1 C and 1.9 C higher [...
ANKARA (AA) – The opening ceremony of the UN Bonn Climate Change Conference had to be suspended for a while as two Free Palestine movement demonstrators took the stage to protest continuing Israeli attacks on Gaza. Climate talks in Bonn, Germany, were disrupted as the activists raised a Palestinian flag and a banner with the […]
Kolkata, India — AFP A powerful cyclone that smashed into low-lying Bangladesh and India killed at least 65 people, including in torrential rain storms in its wake, state government officials and media have reported. Cyclone Remal, which made landfall on Sunday evening with fierce gales and crashing waves, moved slowly inland causing flo...
Washington, United States — AFP Can America’s national parks remain “unimpaired” forever, with their majestic scenery and wildlife unaltered? Global warming makes that impossible, says Wylie Carr, a climate change specialist at the National Park Service. According to Carr, who works on environmental protection at the ag...
Hissar, Tajikistan — AFP In the hills outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, shepherd Bakhtior Sharipov was watching over his flock of giant Hissar sheep. The breed, prized for profitability and an ability to adapt to climate change, garners celebrity status in the Central Asian country, which is beset by a shortage of both meat and [&helli...
Dakar, Senegal – – AFP The deadly heatwave that hit Africa’s Sahel region in early April would not have occurred without human-induced climate change, according to a study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group. The West African nations of Mali and Burkina Faso experienced an exceptional heatwave from April 1 until Apri...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The Bangladesh government has closed schools for seven days as scorching heat waves sweep across the South Asian country. The Ministry of Education and Ministry of Primary and Mass Education in separate notifications announced the decision, saying that primary and secondary schools, colleges, madrasas (Islamic schools)...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Extreme weather patterns being seen around the world are “just a sign of things to come,” the UN’s top climate official has warned. All these climate disasters, from droughts to wildfires and floods, serve as stark reminders of the urgent need for accelerated action, Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, the UN’s weather agency said on Wednesday. “It was the hottest August on record – by a large margin – and the second hottest ever month after July 2023,” according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and EU’s Copernicus Climate Change ...