-New method for upcycling plastic waste is environmentally friendly and will help reduce plastic pollution RICHMOND, Virginia – Guoliang Liu, a researcher at Virginia Tech, has discovered a new method for upcycling plastic waste into soap. The process involves breaking down the plastic’s long polyethylene chains into shorter chains...
-Authorities have appealed to people to stay indoors and avoid landslide-prone areas NEW DELHI, India – Heavy rains have killed at least 33 people and injured many others in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. In the state capital Shimla, a landslide at a temple killed at least nine people. According to the state […]
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...
