Global Warming

Global Warming
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

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

Global fossil fuel production forecasts to 2040 compared to the levels required to limit global warming to 1.5°C and 2°C

Fossil fuel reserves contain 3.5 trillion tonnes of CO2

Burning the world's remaining fossil fuel reserves would unleash 3.5 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions -- seven times the remaining carbon budget to cap global heating at 1.5C -- according ...

Is capping global warming 1.5C a mirage

Risk of climate tipping points escalates at 1.5C warming: Study

The new paper is a synthesis of more than 200 studies to produce new estimates for when common tipping points might happen.

A fisherman walks by the banks of China's largest freshwater Poyang Lake in Juijiang amid scorching heat, China's central Jiangxi province on 23 August, 2022

China warns of 'severe' threat to harvest from worst heat wave on record

China's autumn harvest is under "severe threat" from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country's hottest summer on record

Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain, on 18 June 2022.

Spain wildfire resumes, threatening natural park

A major wildfire in eastern Spain that has destroyed vast swathes of land flared up again Friday despite heavy rainfall, threatening to spread to a nearby natural park

Glaciologists Andrea Fischer (L) and Violeta Lauria from the Austrian Academy of Sciences walk on the Jamtal Glacier (Jamtalferner) near Galtuer, Tyrol, Austria on 20 July, 2022

Austrian scientists race to reveal melting glaciers' secrets

Jumping from rock to rock to rock over a creek formed off Austria's Jamtal glacier, scientist Andrea Fischer worries that precious scientific data will be irreversibly lost as the snow and ice melt ...

Dead coral sit on the ocean bed in the Straits of Florida near Key Largo, Florida, on 23 September 2021.

Study Warmer oceans lead to release of methane from Seabeds

Vast reservoirs of the potent greenhouse gas methane are stored beneath the sea in a solid ice-like combination with water

A woman walks near Imam al-Abbas shrine during a sandstorm in the holy city of Kerbala, Iraq, 26 June 2022.

Rising heat drives crippling sandstorms across the Middle East

Over the past two months, Iraqis have been living, working and breathing in thick clouds of dust, as at least nine sandstorms - lasting up to several days each - have hit the country, blanketing ...

Svalbard is warming five to seven times faster than on the planet as a whole, meteorologists say.

Warming climate upends Arctic mining town

Climate change meant shorter winters; temperatures that yo-yo; more frequent precipitation, increasingly in the form of rain; and thawing permafrost

Professor Saiful Islam, director, Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM)

Interview Record rain in Meghalaya behind Sylhet floods

There is a humanitarian crisis underway in the Sylhet region. The region has been affected by consecutive floods. Prothom Alo spoke with professor Saiful Islam, director, Institute of Water and Flood ...

Fighting against climate change in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh, other climate-battered nations hunt elusive cash at UN talks

International finance for adaptation, at little more than $20 billion a year, remains far below the annual $70 billion developing countries are estimated to need - an amount that could rise to $300 ...

A worker holding a Swiss flag that removed at the end of the season next to the ice cave watches the Rhone Glacier partially covered with insulating foam to prevent it from melting due to global warming near Gletsch on 27 October, 2021

Climate talks test global resolve on warming

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat ...

An aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of the Whitsunday Islands, along the central coast of Queensland

Summer heatwave bleaches 91 per cent of Great Barrier Reef: report

A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 percent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report

While the tropical oceans would lose the most species, many from these areas would migrate to higher latitudes in order to survive, a study said on Thursday.

Study predicts mass marine life extinction if warming continues

While the tropical oceans would lose the most species, many from these areas would migrate to higher latitudes in order to survive

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