United Nations, United States (AFP): UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday pleaded for immediate radical action on climate change, saying record-shattering July temperatures show Earth has passed from a warming phase into an “era of global boiling.” Speaking in New York, the secretary-general described the intense heat across the N...
Zarat, Tunisia (AFP): From Tunisia to Morocco, sun-baked North Africa has embarked on a building spree of plants that purify sea and wastewater as climate change intensifies droughts in the water-scarce region. Across the Maghreb region which is plagued by scorching summer heat, countries are banking on new desalination plants and facilities t...
ANKARA (AA) – Forest fires have destroyed about 82 million hectares of forest worldwide in the last 10 years. According to Global Forest Watch (GFW), the worst forest fires occurred in Australia, Russia, Canada, and the U.S. In Australia, the 2019-2020 bushfires were the largest in the last 10 years, destroying more than 24 million […]...
JAKARTA, Indonesia – An Indonesian women’s group is preparing to help people if El Niño triggers severe wildfires in the coming months. Aisyiyah, the oldest women’s organization, has reopened its “oxygen houses” in Kalimantan and Sumatra. It had established these houses in 2019 when 3.1 million hectares of land in Indon...
ANKARA (AA) – NASA data has shown that global sea level rise poses a significant threat to coastal regions and ecosystems. The rise in water level is due to the melting of ice sheets, glaciers, as well as the warming of seawater. NASA’s comprehensive satellite-derived analysis states that global sea levels have been gradually risin...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Scorching temperatures are spreading across the U.S. Midwest, and millions of people are feeling the heat. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures will rise in southeastern California and nearly all of southern Arizona. Thunderstorms are also expected in Arizona’s high-elevation regions. A heat war...
WASHINGTON –The climate clock has fallen below six years for the first time, suggesting that humanity is running out of time to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5°C. According to activists, this is a sign that the effects of climate change are already being felt. The environmental deterioration that was expected after six years […...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): Wildfires raging across Algeria during a blistering heatwave have killed more than 30 people and forced mass evacuations, the government said on Monday. As temperatures hit 48 degrees Celsius (118 Fahrenheit) in parts of the North African country, 97 blazes were recorded across 16 provinces, fanned by strong winds, said...
Timbulsloko, Indonesia (AFP): Indonesian teacher Sulkan leafs through pictures at his small sea-surrounded mosque, remembering a marching band and smiling children who graduated from his kindergarten, standing on a road now submerged by murky, green water. That is just one of many landmarks in the Javan coastal village of Timbulsloko swallowed...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Rains have claimed more than 100 lives in Pakistan for the past month. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDM), 13 people were killed by the renewed monsoon rains on Sunday. Authorities said nine people were killed by landslides and collapsed roofs. Most of the deaths were reported in the [&...
