Climate Emergency

Climate Emergency
A female polar bear walks between rocks to find something to eat along the shoreline of the Hudson Bay near Churchill on 5 August 2022.

Receding ice leaves Canada's polar bears at rising risk

Sprawled on rocky ground far from sea ice, a lone Canadian polar bear sits under a dazzling sun, his white fur utterly useless as camouflage.

In this file photo taken on 22 January, 2020 Jane Goodall UN Messenger of Peace, speaks at the Securing a Sustainable Future for the Amazon, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Climate change at 'point of no return': primatologist Goodall

Earth's climate is changing so quickly that humanity is running out of chances to fix it, primatologist Jane Goodall has warned in an interview

Construction worker Moina Begum (in gold clothing), sit with other day labourers waiting unsuccessfully for work near the Mirpur bridge in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 August 2022.

Rising inflation traps Bangladesh climate migrants

Bangladesh's inflation rate is now about 7.5 per cent, according to the country's central bank, after the government dramatically boosted fuel prices in the face of rising global fossil fuel costs, ...

A view of Germany's famous Watzmann mountain summit in Bavaria, Germany

Germany down to four glaciers as climate change bites

Germany lost one of its few remaining glaciers this summer as exceedingly warm weather ate away Alpine ice at a faster pace than feared, a scientific report released on Monday showed

Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina speaks during an interview at a hotel in New York, on 22 September 2022.

PM Hasina denounces 'tragedy' of rich nations on climate

A country of fertile, densely populated deltas, low-lying Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable nations in the world to climate change.

Hurricane Fiona makes landfall between Canso and Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada in a composite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-East weather satellite 24 September, 2022.

How climate change is fueling hurricanes

Yes, climate change is making hurricanes wetter, windier and altogether more intense. There is also evidence that it is causing storms to travel more slowly, meaning they can dump more water in one ...

Smoke and steam billows from Belchatow Power Station, Europe's largest coal-fired power plant operated by PGE Group, near Belchatow, Poland 28 November, 2018.

Global climate goals threatened by lack of clean tech collaboration: IEA

The report said collaboration needed to ramp up and made 25 recommendations including increasing cross-border power super grids to support cross country trading in low-carbon power such as wind and ...

An aerial view shows a deforested plot of the Amazon rainforest in Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil 8 July, 2022.

Indonesia, Brazil biggest culprits in tropical forest loss linked to industrial mining

In the first study to quantify the impact of industrial mining on tropical forest loss, an international team of scientists found that just four countries are largely to blame: Brazil, Indonesia, ...

Mild heatwave sweeps through country

Mild heatwave sweeps through country

A mild heatwave is sweeping through Bangladesh, the weather department said on Thursday

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G7 company emissions seemingly falling short of global climate goal

G7 corporates missing Paris Climate Agreement 1.5°C goal while European companies on a 2.4°C warming trajectory in 2022. Germany, Italy and the Netherlands showing most progress

US seriously underestimating the consequences of CO2: Study

US seriously underestimating the consequences of CO2: Study

The US government is drastically underestimating the social cost of carbon dioxide emissions, which is 3.6 times higher than the estimate currently used to inform many of Washington's key climate ...

Women and children walk with their belongings towards a higher ground following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Dera Allah Yar, district Jafferabad, Balochistan, Pakistan on 25 August, 2022

Pakistan floods force tens of thousands from homes overnight

Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in northern Pakistan on Saturday after a fast-rising river destroyed a major bridge, as deadly floods cause devastation across the country

Fires sent thick gray smoke all the way to Sao Paulo, some 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles) away.

Brazil records worst day for Amazon fires in 15 years

Satellite monitoring detected 3,358 fires on Monday

A picture taken on 21 August, 2022 shows the low waters of lake Serre-Poncon in Ubaye Serre-Poncon in French Alps as water level decreased 14 meters due to the drought.

Severe drought in Europe is 'worsening': EU experts

Nearly half of the EU's territory is at risk of drought while shriveling rivers and shrinking water sources are impacting energy generation at power plants and reducing crops, stated European Union's ...

Bay of Bengal

Maritime ports told to warn vessels of ‘deep depression' in Bay

A depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining area has moved west-northwestward and intensified into a deep depression

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