March 31, 2024
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
March 31, 2024
The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
More than 60 percent of the ocean is a near lawless realm where holes in the international regulatory “system” are large enough to sail through. But in early March, delegates at the United Nations headquarters in New York City emerged from a 36-hour marathon negotiation session to announce a new high seas treaty. First conceived nearly […]
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According to research released on Thursday, protected Indigenous reservations in the Amazon rainforest absorb thousands of tons of airborne pollutants each year, saving almost $2 billion in healthcare expenditures for treating respiratory and cardiovascular problems. The ten-year study examined the health effects of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon, which emit massive amounts of airborne […]
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Canada has made significant progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions from before COVID-19, but the pace is still too slow to meet international commitments, new data show. Emissions of carbon dioxide and other climate-warming gases in 2021 were 7.4 per cent below 2019 levels, according to a government report released Friday. Still, they were up 1.8 […]
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We all know what needs to be done: reduce carbon emissions. But so far, we members of global humanity just haven’t been able to turn the tide. The latest IPCC report documents that carbon emissions are still increasing, despite all the promises and efforts of the past few decades. The report tells us there’s only a narrow […]
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Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has praised the United Nations development system, especially its Resident Coordinator’s office in Islamabad, for their crucial role in supporting Pakistan’s efforts to respond and recover from the “dire situation” left behind by last August’s devastating floods. “The Resident Coordinator’s Office was our go-to place for coordinating UN response to […]
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Sea levels on China’s coastline have hit their highest on record for the second year in a row, rising more quickly than the global average and posing a serious threat to coastal cities such as the financial hub of Shanghai. In 2022, China’s coastal sea levels were 94 millimeters (3.7 inch) higher than “normal,” defined […]
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A boom in wind and solar has pushed the amount of electricity produced by renewable energy to record levels last year, according to a new analysis. The use of coal, oil and gas to produce electricity is expected to fall in 2023, according to the report, published Wednesday by energy think tank Ember. This would mark the first […]
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Climate experts are warning of a possible El Niño phenomenon later this year. El Niño is a warming of the Pacific Ocean that can cause extreme weather events worldwide. Some models suggest a “super El Niño” with very high temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific. The El Niño of 2016 The last extreme El Niño […]
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Even as many U.S. nuclear reactors reach the end of their estimated life spans, the country still gets nearly 20% of its power from these sites. Now, new research claims that shutting them down could increase air pollution and cause more deaths because while nuclear power plants are considered relatively clean energy, many potential replacement […]
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Durban – One of the things director of Gift of the Givers, Imtiaz Sooliman will never forget were the calls for help at 1am on April 11, 2022. On that day a year ago, many lives were affected following the devastating floods that left many homeless and at least 482 people dead. This week the […]
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