Brown bear cubs in Japan die of starvation amid salmon shortage
As many as eight in 10 brown bear cubs born this year in a remote part of northern Japan have died amid a shortage of salmon, with experts blaming rising sea temperatures caused by the climate crisis. Along with acorns, pink salmon are an important source of food for the estimated 500 brown bears living along […]
Read MoreLibyan rivals ‘co-ordinating over flood relief’
The two rival governments in Libya are co-ordinating relief efforts for flood victims, the UN has said. More than 5,300 people died after two dam bursts brought devastating floods to the eastern city of Derna. Derna’s mayor, Abdulmenam al-Ghaithi said that number could reach as high as 20,000, based on the extent of the area […]
Read MoreExperts call for global moratorium on efforts to geoengineer climate
Governments should place a moratorium on efforts to geoengineer the planet’s climate, as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and the climate crisis takes hold, a panel of global experts has urged. Geoengineering is highly controversial, but discussions of its feasibility are gathering pace as the impacts of extreme weather, driven by climate breakdown, grip […]
Read MoreClimate change: UN calls for radical changes to stem warming
Tackling climate change needs a rapid transformation of the way our world works, travels, eats and uses energy, according to an important UN review. This is the first “global stocktake” to examine the efforts of countries to reduce planet-warming emissions since the Paris agreement was signed in 2015. While progress has been made, efforts now […]
Read MoreOcean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
The oceans have hit their hottest ever recorded temperature as they soak up warmth from climate change, with dire implications for our planet’s health. The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus. It reached 20.96C (69.73F) – far above the average for […]
Read MoreCOP28: Admit your failures, climate summit host Al Jaber tells nations
Governments must face up to their failures to tackle climate change at the next UN climate summit, the president of COP28 has told governments. The meeting in November should agree to triple renewable energy by 2030, Sultan al-Jaber told leaders in Brussels. Green groups welcomed the speech as a “kick up the backside” to governments. […]
Read More‘Countries are drowning’: climate expert calls for urgent rethink on scale of aid for developing world
The world must rethink its approach to the climate crisis, by investing trillions of dollars instead of billions in the developing world, and moving beyond conventional ideas of overseas aid, one of the world’s most influential climate economists has urged. “We need a complete rethink of the whole nexus of climate, debt and development,” Avinash […]
Read MoreGreta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is ‘death sentence’ for world’s poor
Rich countries are signing a “death sentence” for millions of poor people around the world by failing to phase out fossil fuels, the climate activist Greta Thunberg has told governments. She warned on Tuesday that with annual greenhouse gas emissions at an all-time high, only a “rapid and equitable” phaseout of fossil fuels would keep global temperatures within […]
Read MoreContrasting Weather: North Disturbed, South-West Milder
The weather will be mixed on Thursday with showers from the Hauts de France to the Paris region while the South-West will benefit from a great mildness. The weather will be disturbed Thursday, April 27 in the north of the country, but the temperatures will be on the rise and the South-West will benefit from […]
Read MoreBlaming France And Switzerland For Climate Inaction
A “historic” first. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) examines on Wednesday the alleged climate inaction of States by examining two cases targeting Switzerland and France. Bern is assigned by retirees who denounce the effects of global warming on their health, while Paris is being sued by the former mayor of a town threatened […]
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