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The Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is no longer possible, a new study claims. While the rollout of green tech solutions has sped up in recent years, the realistic constraints of implementing climate policies in some countries could make this totemic climate goal impossible. “Limiting peak temperature to below 1.5°C is not possible with even moderate likelihood anymore,” says lead author of the study Christoph Bertram, associate research professor at the University of Maryland and guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Im...
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Flowing across Alaska to the Bering Sea, the Yukon River erodes the permafrost along its banks and carries sediment downstream. As our planet warms, this permafrost is eroding faster and releasing a toxic metal into the environment - mercury. Though the mercury released from melting permafrost doesn’t pose a toxic threat today, its impact will grow over time. It gradually accumulates in the food chain with fish and wild animals consumed by humans posing a future threat as it builds. ‘Truly staggering’: Earth records hottest day ever adding to months of unparalleled heat‘Society and the environ...
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Each winter, millions of Europeans struggle to keep their homes warm in freezing temperatures as electricity bills soar. But a different kind of energy poverty is now on the rise as our warming world brings record temperatures across the continent year after year. Many are struggling to keep their homes cool amidst extreme heat - and climate change is only set to make this problem worse. Europe is the fastest warming continent on the planet with temperatures rising at around twice the global average. Experts predict that the number of Europeans exposed to extreme heat will increase from 10 mil...
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The Maldives is a tropical paradise with endless white beaches, crystal clear waters and stunning resorts. Millions of travellers flock here every year seeking rest and recuperation, with 2023 seeing record arrivals, up 12 per cent on the year before. The trend has continued in 2024, with tourist arrivals up by 10 per cent compared to the same period last year. This is good news for the country’s 550,000 citizens, the majority of whom rely on tourism for their income. But behind the scenes of luxury resorts, they face another struggle: being on the frontlines of the climate crisis. There’s no ...
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By Maxwell Radwin Mexico has pledged to more than double its clean energy output by 2030, investing in solar and wind power while transitioning away from fossil fuels. Yet the country continues to lag behind on its renewable energy targets, producing just 12% of its power from clean sources last year, watchdogs have found. At the same time, the country continues to subsidize the struggling state-owned oil company Pemex while beefing up its oil and natural gas infrastructure with new refineries and massive, transnational pipelines. The projects worry environmentalists not only because of climat...
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The United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres issued an urgent call to action after the world experienced its hottest day on record on Monday. He said "This past Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were the three hottest days on record. But let’s face facts: extreme temperatures are no longer a one-day, one-week or one-month phenomenon. If there is one thing that unites our divided world, it’s that we’re all increasingly feeling the heat. Earth is becoming hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere". The World Meteorological Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Civil society organizations in Indonesia are getting a boost to ensure their participation in the country’s clean energy transition and land stewardship, amid an increasingly hostile climate for groups advocating for environmental and social rights. Four new projects launched June 27 by the European Union delegation to Indonesia are designed to strengthen CSO capacity and participation in the fields of land-use governance and the energy transition; support for Indigenous peoples and local communities; gender equality and youth empowerment; and human rights monit...
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Melting ice caps may have a bigger influence on the length of a day than previously thought, new research has found. This human-caused consequence of climate change is slowing the speed at which the Earth rotates, increasing the length of a day. It amounts to just a few milliseconds but it could have significant impacts in our modern, high-tech world as many of the computer systems we use every day rely on very precise atomic clocks. And, researchers say, it shows climate change could have a much bigger impact on the Earth’s spin than initially thought. How are melting ice caps making days lon...
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Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A deadly heatwave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius. From Italy to Romania, authorities warned people to be cautious, drink plenty of water and avoid going outside during the hottest hours of the day. Italian authorities declared a red weather alert in seven cities on Thursday, mostly in the central parts of the country but also the capital Rome and Trieste in the northeast. The heat conditions are aggravated by humidity and could affect healthy people as well as those with h...
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Canada's historic wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels. Put another way, the fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as flights do in a year. This is the same amount of carbon dioxide that 647 million cars put in the air in a year, based on US EPA data. The new data lays bare the vicious circle of wildfires - they are becoming more frequent due to global warming which is caused by burning fossil fuels which produces emissions. Forests remove a lot of emissions from the atmosphere so when they burn down they ...
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