The Met Office is forecasting that temperatures for each of the next five years are likely to be 1C or more above pre-industrial levels. In the next five years there’s also a chance we’ll see a year in which the average global temperature rise could be greater than 1.5C. That’s ... Read More »
Fractious climate change talks in Poland showed the limits of international action to limit global warming in a polarized world, putting the onus on individual governments, cities and communities to stop temperatures rising. Nearly 200 countries at the United Nations talks in Katowice – in the coal mining region of ... Read More »
UN summit urged to end all coal burning and introduce substantial taxes on emissions Global investors managing $32tn issued a stark warning to governments at the UN climate summit on Monday, demanding urgent cuts in carbon emissions and the phasing out of all coal burning. Without these, the world faces ... Read More »
‘The extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon,’ naturalist warns during COP 24 Civilisations are going to collapse and much of nature will be wiped out to extinction if humanity doesn’t take urgent action on climate change, Sir David Attenborough has warned. The naturalist gave a ... Read More »
Residents wonder if they will have anything to return to after Camp Fire forces evacuations and kills at least nine The day after the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, forcing the evacuation of the nearly 30,000 in the small community in California’s Sierra Foothills, Randy Stump was still at home, ... Read More »
Report says air pollution is having a devastating impact on children worldwide, storing up a public health time bomb Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, according to a report from the ... Read More »
Heavy rain expected to bring flooding and landslides Japan is facing another dangerous storm as Typhoon Kong-rey tracks through the Pacific Ocean. The Met Office warned of a potential risk to life as the storm brings maximum sustained winds of 120mph, with gusts of up to 175mph. Heavy rain is ... Read More »
Volcanologists at odds over high carbon dioxide emissions from ‘highly hazardous’ peak that last blew in October 1918 A huge volcano in southern Iceland is belching higher quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere than previously thought, prompting scientists to warn it could be about to erupt. Should Katla ... Read More »
Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile A domino-like cascade of melting ice, warming seas, shifting currents and dying forests could tilt the Earth into a “hothouse” state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will be increasingly futile, a group ... Read More »
Number of pairs has fallen from 500,000 in the 1980s, to just 60,000 by 2017 The world’s largest colony of king penguins has collapsed by almost 90 per cent over the last 35 years, new research indicates. Aerial and satellite images of the colony living on the remote subantarctic island ... Read More »
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