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While warning that breaching the 1.5°C global warming limit would bring irreversible losses that no adaptation initiatives could undo, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday (September 2, 2026), for the first time, set out a detailed “overshoot, peak and decline” pathway. This is a route under which the world overshoots the 2015 Paris…
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In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms. So now the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials say. Earth is soon…
A curious dome hovering over Western Europe has thrown life out of gear across the region. From droughts to drownings, a severe heatwave driven by this increasingly frequent phenomenon has enveloped a dozen countries in its searing embrace. Here’s a look at what it means, how it came about and what’s on the cards in…
A firefighter battles the Palisades Fire in Mandeville Canyon, in Los Angeles. File | Photo Credit: AP For more than a decade, Bill Gates’s views have come to define the respectable centre of climate discourse for the American elite. His words have carried the weight of authority and his ideas have bridged science, capital, and…
The remaining of a destroyed house are seen in Port St Lucie, Florida, after a tornado hit the area and caused severe damage as Hurricane Milton swept through Florida on October 11, 2024. Nearly 2.5 million households and businesses were still without power, and some areas in the path cut through the Sunshine State by…
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Climate change is contributing to record numbers of people being uprooted from their homes globally, while worsening the often already “hellish” conditions of displacement, the United Nations (U.N.) said on Tuesday (November 12, 2024). With international climate talks under way in Baku, the U.N. refugee agency highlighted how soaring global temperatures and extreme weather events…
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File picture of a volunteer pouring water to cool a man off during a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan. 2024 will be first year over 1.5 degree Celsius hotter than pre-industrial period | Photo Credit: AP This year is “virtually certain” to eclipse 2023 as the world’s warmest since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus…
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As greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new high in 2023, the earth will continue to warm for many years to come, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is increasing more quickly than at any other point in human history, increasing by almost…
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Paris: Deforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday. Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023, according to two dozen research organisations, NGOs and advocacy groups, with 6.37 million hectares (15.7 million acres) of trees felled and…
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The challenges posed by climate change anxiety for Gen Z are profound and multifaceted (representational) Perth, Australia: In June 2024, 13 young people in Hawaii took on their state government in court and won the right to have greater input in climate policy. They sued the state for infringing on their right to “a clean…
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