Climate change is driving extreme floods, wildfires and heat. Will the world meet the moment?
The summer isn’t even halfway through and it’s already proved to be a season of deadly extremes. In a little
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Climate Crisis
Water-related hazards dominate disasters in the past 50 years
Press Release by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Water-related hazards dominate the list of disasters in terms of both the human and
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Part of the Amazon is emitting more carbon dioxide than it absorbs
The Amazon region, home to the planet’s largest tropical forests, has served as an important absorber of carbon dioxide The
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Climate crisis: Coastal areas may become unliveable by 2100
People living in and near the coastal areas in India may be compelled to stay indoors during working hours for
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Hawaii becomes first state to declare climate emergency
Hawaii is poised to become the first U.S. state to declare a climate emergency after the Legislature’s adoption Thursday of
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Third of Antarctic ice shelves ‘will collapse amid 4C global heating’
A new study is shedding light on just how much ice could be lost around Antarctica if the international community
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Third warmest March in 121 years recorded over India
March was third warmest in 121 years in terms of monthly average maximum temperature, the India Meteorological Department on Monday
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Global temperatures in 2020 among highest on record: WMO
The heat came even as a global economic slowdown from the COVID-19 pandemic cut deeply into emissions from fossil fuels
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7 wins that gave us hope for the environment in 2020
In 2020, wildfires raged through Australia and the American West, hurricanes battered Central America and the Gulf Coast, dark clouds
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Earth to become ‘an uninhabitable hell’, warns UN
The UN is accusing political and business leaders of willingly ‘sowing the seeds of our own destruction’. “We have seen little
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