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A 25-tonne seabed mining robot is lowered into the Pacific Ocean to begin a descent to the sea floor, in the Clarion Clipperton zone of the Pacific Ocean.

G7 for strict environmental rules on deep-sea mining

Until global rules are in place, sea bed mining is not allowed.

New Zealand sea level rising more quickly than forecast

New Zealand sea level rising more quickly than forecast

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said adaptation planning was already underway, including budgeting for the relocation of some communities and infrastructure away from vulnerable coastlines

A photo taken during a tour of the Hadera Desalination Facility on 3 April, 2022 shows a general view of the location in the central Israeli coastal town of Hadera

Israel to top up shrinking Sea of Galilee with desalinated water

Israel, a leader in making seawater drinkable, plans to pump excess output from its desalination plants into the Sea of Galilee, depleted by overuse and threatened by climate change

Blocks of ice are seen at the Carlini Base, a permanent Argentine base and research station located on Potter Cove, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica

Glacier lakes accelerate disappearance of permanent ice: Study

If glaciers flow more rapidly, the water reserves stored in the ice will also be exhausted more rapidly and rivers will receive less water, the study explained

Dhaka seeks ISA’s increased support to tap seabed resources

Dhaka seeks ISA’s increased support to tap seabed resources

Bangladesh's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York ambassador Rabab Fatima has said the vast and unexplored resource frontiers of the seabed have the potential to bring ...

Oxfam activists dressed as a Scottish pipe band and representing (L-R) Russian president Vladimir Putin, Italian prime minister Mario Draghi, French president Emmanuel Macron, US president Joe Biden, British prime minister Boris Johnson, Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, India's prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping pose during their "Big Heads" protest stunt at the Royal Exchange Square in Glasgow on 1 November 2021 on the sidelines of the COP26 UN Climate Summit.

Cows, cars and climate

Extensive public awareness and incentives play a part in making people environment-friendly. Unless the people themselves are climate and environment-friendly, no government or conference can play an ...

In this photograph taken on 26 September 2021, a farmer standing in an inundated field checks on vegetables growing on seed beds, made of stack layers of water hyacinth and bamboo tied together by their roots to create a raft, in Mugarjhor some 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Dhaka

Climate Change Bangladeshis adapt to survive with floating farms, salt-resistant rice

Farmers are desperately trying to adjust to these ever more destructive and unpredictable conditions caused by global warming -- from using floating seed beds to developing salt-resistant rice

In this picture taken on 19 September 2021, a climate refugee washes utensils at her temporary home in a shanty settlement in Dhaka

Climate Change Bangladesh’s shanty towns for climate refugees

At the upcoming COP26 in Glasgow, Bangladesh will again highlight the challenges it is facing due to the extreme weather events, and call for international help to help adapt

Ice shelves in Antarctica, such as the Getz Ice Shelf seen here, are sensitive to warming ocean temperatures. Ocean and atmospheric conditions are some of the drivers of ice sheet loss that scientists considered in a new study estimating additional global sea level rise by 2100

Sea levels 'could rise much faster': Dutch meteorologists

Sea levels could rise much higher than first predicted along the low-lying Dutch coastline, by up to two metres (6.5 feet) this century, Dutch meteorologists warned Monday

Like many other roads in Dhaka city, pothole-filled Outer Circular Road went underwater due to excessive rain

Climate emergency Seas will still rise even if global warming stops: Researchers

Worst hit in any scenario will be Asia, including Bangladesh, which accounts for nine of the ten mega-cities at highest risk

Families in Burundi languish as homes disappear under Lake Tanganyika

Climate shocks forced over 100,000 to flee home in Burundi: charity

Children have been particularly hard-hit, it said, adding an estimated 7,200 of the displaced people -- or 7 per cent of the total number -- are babies under the age of one

'Rising sea-level to submerge around 17pc of Bangladesh by 2050'

'Rising sea-level to submerge around 17pc of Bangladesh by 2050'

Around 17 per cent of Bangladesh will be submerged by rising sea-levels by 2050, depriving 20 million people of their homes

A family dwelling on an embankment as river erosion destroys their home following the damage of a coastal embankment along the Bay in Satkhira. Kurikahnia, Ashashuni upazila, Satkhira on 28 September 2020

Coastal cities face their mortality on the climate 'frontline'

In city upon city, office towers, warehouses and homes crowd the water's edge as if they are jostling to take a dip, major roads hug the shore, landing strips jut dauntlessly into the frothing waves

Ice shelves in Antarctica, such as the Getz Ice Shelf seen here, are sensitive to warming ocean temperatures. Ocean and atmospheric conditions are some of the drivers of ice sheet loss that scientists considered in a new study estimating additional global sea level rise by 2100

Arctic sea ice thinning faster than expected: Researchers

By timing how long it takes for radar waves to bounce back from the ice, they can calculate the height of the ice above the water, from which they can infer the ice’s total thickness

People run through a waterlogged road due to rising sea level ahead of Cyclone Yaas at Digha in Purba Medinipur district in West Bengal, India, on 26 May, 2021

Rising global temperatures 'inexorably closer' to climate tipping point: UN study

The report predicts a 90 per cent chance that at least one of the years between 2021 and 2025 will become the warmest year on record, topping 2016 temperatures

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