The scientific community is sounding the alarm as Donald Trump prepares to return to power, warning of potential setbacks to climate and public health policies. More than 50,000 scientists and advocates, led by the Union of Concerned Scientists, sent a petition to Congress urging lawmakers to protect science and resist anti-science Cabinet nom...
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to quickly revoke outgoing President Joe Biden’s ban on offshore oil and gas drilling. Trump told reporters in Florida he would reverse it immediately in vast areas “on day one.” He said “we’re going to be drilling in a lot of other locations, and the energy costs are going to [&he...
Climate change has significantly disrupted the Earth’s water cycle, leading to a surge in severe water-related disasters. According to a report released by the Australian National University, the world has set new temperature records, and extreme precipitation events intensified in 2024. More than half of the world’s population across 11...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has announced that the 10 hottest years on record have all occurred within the past decade. “This is climate breakdown in real time,” Guterres said on X. “In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions & supporting th...
ISTANBUL (AA)- Biden administration has unveiled a new nationally determined contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement, targeting an ambitious 61-66% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2035. The announcement, which came a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, underscores the current US administration...
A congressional report warns the climate crisis is significantly endangering the U.S. housing and insurance sectors. With 2023 on track as the hottest year on record and disasters exceeding $1 billion in losses, the report highlights skyrocketing insurance premiums and growing uninsurability in high-risk states such as Florida and California. ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – After two weeks of tense negotiations, COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, concluded with an agreement on a new climate finance target: $300 billion annually by 2035. Despite the agreement, many developing nations, including Cuba and India, slammed the $300 billion annual pledge, calling it “too little, too late.” ...
President Joe Biden has urged world leaders to address worldwide hunger and poverty as global crises worsen. Addressing the G20 summit in Brazil this week, the president said Washington has invested $160 billion in global development since he assumed office Biden said global crises including the COVID-19 pandemic, spiraling wars and increasing...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has urged the developed countries to fulfill their financial commitments made during the COP27 and COP 28. Addressing the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, Sharif said that financial support should be grant based for developing countries. “I str...
LONDON (AA) – The climate financing needs of low and middle-income countries, which are projected to exceed $2 trillion per year by 2030, are among the key topics at the 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) which began Monday in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku. COP29, which runs until Nov. 22, will be a platform for discussing […]...
