California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in Butte County north of Sacramento due to a wildfire which started Tuesday. It continues to rage, burning over 3,500 acres with no containment. The blaze, fueled by near-record heat across the state, has prompted mass evacuations in Oroville, affecting more than 20,000 reside...
Washington, United States — AFP The administration of US President Joe Biden has proposed new regulations aimed at protecting laborers working in extremely high temperatures, as heat waves intensified by climate change increasingly blanket the nation. The rule would be aimed at mail carriers, delivery people, construction workers, landsc...
Baba Island, Pakistan — AFP On a densely populated island off Pakistan’s megacity of Karachi, a group of pregnant women wait in punishing heat for a midwife to arrive from the mainland. Each week Neha Mankani, the only midwife available to these women, comes by boat ambulance to Baba, an old fishing settlement and reportedly [&hell...
Port Harcourt, Nigeria — AFP On a riverbank in the Niger Delta, a group of residents in rubber boots has been working to restore one of Nigeria’s most precious and damaged ecosystems — its mangrove forests. The team members plunge their shovels into the mud and slot in saplings at the site in Bundu, a […]
Washington, United States – AFP Most of the United States will experience hotter than normal weather throughout the summer, from July to September, a US government agency has predicted. “What we’re predicting is generally that much of the US, excepting a few places, are forecast to be above normal,” Johnna Infanti, a me...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – AFP Torrential rains in Bangladesh have triggered landslides burying alive at least nine people and forcing thousands to flee to higher ground, police and government officials in the low-lying nation said Wednesday. Schools have been turned into shelters for those abandoning their homes to rising river wat...
ISTANBUL (AA) – New research suggests the Earth’s climate might have been dramatically influenced by the sun’s passage through a dense interstellar cloud millions of years ago. The study published in Nature Astronomy provides fresh insights into how our solar system’s movement through the Milky Way could affect the Eart...
Dozens of activists were arrested in New York City as part of a nonviolent campaign called the Summer of Heat. It targets Citigroup’s role in fueling climate breakdown. Blocking entrances to the corporation’s headquarters, protesters demanded an end to the bank’s financing of fossil fuel expansion. Despite police arrests, they persisted, emph...
Skardu, Pakistan – AFP In the mountainous valleys of Pakistan, 18-hour daily power cuts have meant local teacher Aniqa Bano uses her fridge as a cupboard for storing books and kitchen utensils. Load shedding is typical across much of fuel-short Pakistan, but few areas consistently suffer the same prolonged outages as Skardu city. A surge...
GENEVA (AA/AFP) – Humanity now faces an 80 percent chance that Earth’s temperatures will at least temporarily exceed the key 1.5-degree Celsius mark during the next five years, the UN predicted Wednesday. The global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2024 and 2028 is predicted to be between 1.1 C and 1.9 C higher [...
