ANKARA – Despite declines in deaths from household air and water pollution, pollution still kills more than 9 million each year, or one in six deaths worldwide, according to recent research. “Over the past two decades, deaths caused by the modern forms of pollution have increased by 66%, driven by industrialisation, uncontrolled ur...
ISTANBUL – China, the US and India must take more decisive steps in the face of challenges in reaching net-zero emissions targets as they are responsible for more than half of all global emissions, according to experts. The most important commitment of governments to limit global warming to 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level is to […]...
Keeping global warming below the 1.5°C threshold by the end of the century will require halting construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure and closing many existing sites. That’s according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. “Some existing fossil fuel licenses and production will need to be revok...
ISTANBUL – An official of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) urged rapid actions to end or minimize the usage of fossil fuels by the end of the decade. IPCC is a UN body responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. Joyashree Roy, one of the authors of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report […]
A group of House Democrats on Wednesday sent letters to 13 of the top U.S. insurers, urging them to stop profiting “from the expansion of fossil fuels while ripping the rug out from under the communities most affected by climate change.” U.S. Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) led 14 colleagues in urging the...
Advocacy groups on Tuesday blasted new efforts by U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin to strike a deal with the GOP on climate legislation after months of the West Virginia Democrat preventing the House-approved Build Back Better Act from reaching President Joe Biden’s desk. Manchin and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) organized a Monday night meeting t...
ANKARA – Twitter has announced that it will ban advertisements that deny scientific consensus on climate change. “Misleading advertisements on Twitter that contradict the scientific consensus on climate change are prohibited, in line with our inappropriate content policy,” the company said in a statement. Stressing that misleading inform...
On Monday, the White House announced it will convene a second global COVID-19 summit next month. A leading public health advocate urged U.S. President Joe Biden to “fight like hell” for congressional funding to combat the ongoing pandemic. The U.S., Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal collectively are hosting the summit. They said the May 1...
During Ramadan, many Muslims fast from dawn until sunset. To break the fast, Muslims often gather together for communal meals, known as iftar. But iftars can sometimes generate a lot of waste such as disposable silverware and serving items. To combat that problem, a group of 15 Muslims in Washington, D.C., decided to throw an […]
A new report released Tuesday by three watchdog groups highlights how Big Oil has cashed in on crises in the past year, while enriching shareholders. The industry has used the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the global climate emergency to benefit investors. The report from BailoutWatch, Friends of the Earth, and Public Citizen...
