BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – Temperatures in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, which averaged between 45 and 48 degrees Celsius in July, rose to 50 degrees Celsius on Saturday afternoon. The Met Department said that temperatures will remain elevated until Monday. To make matters worse, citizens are dealing with frequent power cuts. Only three to five hour...
WASHINGTON – As environmentalists urge President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency, he said such an emergency practically already exists. He said the emergency is “for all practical purposes” already there, although he has not declared it. Pointing to steps his administration has taken, he said the U.S. has joined the ...
HONOLULU, Hawaii – At least 55 people have died and 1,000 are missing in devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The fire has also destroyed the historic town of Lahaina, the former capital of Hawaii. Many of the buildings burned to the ground. The fires were fueled by unusually dry weather and 80-mile-per-hour […]
GENEVA (AA): Climate change is not a distant future threat but is already affecting daily weather patterns and forcing people to migrate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has said. Omar Baddour, the head of the WMO’s Climate Monitoring Division, told the media in a written statement: “Climate change interconnects directly or indirec...
TEHRAN, Iran – Residents of Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province are protesting agiainst the water crisis in the region. Protesters demanded that President Ebrahim Raisi visit the region and urged the establishment of a High Council to address the crisis. The water crisis has also negatively impacted the region’s agricultural and ind...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Four U.S. senators have called on the Justice Department to sue the fossil fuel industry for its carefully coordinated campaign of climate change denial. Senators Bernie Sanders, Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley and Elizabeth Warren said the fossil fuel industry has spent millions of dollars to obscure the public’s underst...
Chennai, India (AFP): Environment ministers from G20 nations failed to agree on peaking global emissions by 2025 and other crucial issues to address the global climate crisis at their meeting in India on Friday. No breakthrough was possible on several key points ahead of this year’s COP28 climate talks, with negotiations also failing to ...
ROME (AA): Political instability and climate change are the biggest causes of hunger and malnutrition in Muslim countries, said Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS) head Yerlan A. Baidaulet. Quoting a UN report, Baidaulet said that it is very tragic that half the countries facing hunger and malnutrition are members of the Organization...
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...
