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Hurricane Milton became one of the most rapidly intensifying storms on record as it went from barely hurricane strength to a dangerous Category 5 storm in less than a day on a path across the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida.
With sustained winds that reached 180 mph on Oct. 7, 2024, and very low (…)
Record breaking fossil fuel production, all time high greenhouse gas emissions and extreme temperatures. Like the proverbial frog in the heating pan of water, we refuse to respond to the climate and ecological crisis with any sense of urgency. Under such circumstances, claims from some that (…)
A surprising technique has helped scientists observe how Earth’s oceans are changing, and it’s not using specialized robots or artificial intelligence. It’s tagging seals.
Several species of seals live around and on Antarctica and regularly dive more than 100 meters in search of their next (…)
If the anomaly does not stabilise by August, ‘the world will be in uncharted territory’, says climate expert
Another month, another global heat record that has left climate scientists scratching their heads and hoping this is an El Niño-related hangover rather than a symptom of (…)
The annual UN climate talks are supposed to be spaces where an international response to the most pressing issue of our time, the climate crisis, can be hammered out. But for many attendees at the last Conference of the Parties (COP), held in Dubai in December 2023, it was more of a trade show. (…)
Documents show industry-backed Air Pollution Foundation uncovered the severe harm climate change would wreak
‘They were omnipresent in this space,’ said Carroll Muffett, chief executive of the Center for International Environmental Law. Composite: The Guardian/Special Collections & (…)
Disastrous events included flash flooding in Africa and wildfires in Europe and North America
The hottest year in recorded history casts doubts on humanity’s ability to deal with a climate crisis of its own making, senior scientists have said.
As historically high temperatures continued to (…)
The smokescreen generated by recent carbon-offset setbacks should not blind us to the simple truth that we must protect our intact forests and bring back those we have lost
Some have recently questioned whether forests really are the climate solution they have long been held to be. This is (…)
To make the COP28 outcome truly “historic”, we need to free the talks — and our political and economic systems — from the oily grip of the fossil fuel industry. This op-ed was first published in Euronews.
COP28 was historic. To stand any chance of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5oc, (…)
White smoke: two weeks of climate negotiations at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, better known as COP28, held from 30 November to 13 December in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, resulted in a unanimous agreement.
Smiling at the (…)
A two-member delegation of Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee—a member of Asian People’s Movement on Debt and Developed (APMDD) attended the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) held in Expo City Dubai. The final agreement is termed by international media as a “historic accord on the transition away (…)
Far from the standing ovation delivered by delegates in Dubai, activists in some of Asia’s most climate-vulnerable nations responded to the COP28 agreement with disappointment on Thursday.
Climate activists raise placards during a protest against fossil fuels during the UN Climate Change (…)
The distinction between ‘abated’ and ‘unabated’ fossil fuels is crucial, yet remains ambiguous.
The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has adjourned. The result is “The UAE consensus” on fossil fuels.
This text, agreed upon by delegates from nearly 200 countries, calls for the world to move “away (…)
Yes, there was some progress at COP28. But the international community is not taking this enormous climate challenge as seriously as it should.
As negotiators stagger towards their beds in Dubai and another year’s climate talks come to a close, it’s time to take stock. Did COP28 achieve the (…)
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers
Let’s face it: climate summits are broken. The delegates talk and talk, while Earth systems slide towards deadly tipping points. Since the climate (…)
The presidency of COP28 by the boss of the Emirati oil company (ADNOC, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ) is not an accident, attributable solely to the rotation of countries hosting climate conferences. It reflects a tactical repositioning of the main producers of fossil fuels, oil and gas in (…)
As the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations around limiting global warming to 1.5°C will confront a harsh reality. Global temperatures have surged over the past year, with the monthly global average surpassing 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels during the (…)
One of the tasks of COP28, which kicks off on November 30 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates [UAE], will be to take stock of national commitments made at the Paris COP in 2015, which, according to the UN, does not look promising. “The world is on track for a ‘hellish’ 3C of global heating, the UN (…)
Ahead of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai, Alan Thornett’s article analyses the key challenges facing the summit, including the need for countries to ratchet up their emissions reduction pledges, address demands for climate finance such as loss and damage funds, and take (…)
Storm Ciarán is the UK’s third named winter storm since September. As the eye of Storm Ciarán hovered over south-west England on Thursday, barometer gauges plummeted to their lowest level in more than 100 years. Meteorologists compare this sudden drop in atmospheric pressure to an explosion, and (…)
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