Climate

    UAE asserts intense climate action equals strong economic growth at high-level pre-COP26 climate talks in the UK
    01 Aug 2021

    Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, the UAE’s Special Envoy for Climate Change and Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, met his counterparts in London for high-level talks ahead of November’s COP26 climate change summit in the UK, WAM reports. During the ministerial gathering, which included ministers from 40 countries, and in meetings with UK […]

    Wildfires sweep Turkey’s southern coast: four people dead
    01 Aug 2021

    More than 70 wildfires have broken out this week in provinces on Turkey’s Aegean and Mediterranean coasts and inland areas, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, adding that 14 were still burning, Gulf-Times reports. The death toll from wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast has risen to four, and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day […]

    Extreme weather takes climate change models “off the scale”
    01 Aug 2021

    Fires, floods, heatwaves, and droughts. The deadly weather that has unfolded in the summer, 2021 has left climate scientists “shocked” and concerned that extreme events are arriving even faster than models predicted, The Finance Info states. In southern Oregon, a fire over an area 25 times the size of Manhattan has raged for weeks, aided […]

    Opinion: why climate change should be a top priority for Qatar and GCC region
    01 Aug 2021

    While awareness has increased and steps have been taken to tackle climate change in Qatar and the GCC region, more needs to be done now, Neeshad Shafi states. The author is an environmentalist, speaker, and policy-oriented social change advocates, best known for his work on environmental and climate change policy in the Gulf and the […]

    In the Philippines, children continued to play in the computer club, waist-deep in water. Looks symbolic
    29 Jul 2021

    Take a look at what happens when human game addiction is stronger than the desire to survive in this harsh world. These young gamers were photographed in one of the computer clubs in the Philippines during the strongest typhoon. Despite the risk of electric shock, these boys initially refused to leave the Internet cafe, Metro […]

    What is easier: to love wine, bananas, coffee, and potatoes or to combat climate change?
    28 Jul 2021

    If the banana is in your grocery basket, then there is enough rainfall in India or Ecuador. And a bottle of beer next to it suggests that barley from Ukraine, China, or another part of the world has not been exposed to dangerous fluctuations in weather conditions. An apple from Turkey got into the basket […]

    Solar aggression. How heat kills people and the world economy
    27 Jul 2021

    How much will global warming cost the world? Droughts, forest fires, drying of rivers are the effects of heat, which are increasingly observed on an increasingly threatening scale worldwide. However, abnormally high temperatures affect not only nature but also humanity and the economy. Let’s check the Chas News story about how many lives the heat […]

    G20 fails to agree on climate goals in communiqué
    26 Jul 2021

    Energy and environment ministers from the Group of 20 wealthy nations have failed to agree on the wording of crucial climate change commitments in their final communique, Italy’s Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said on July 23, Reuters reports. The G20 ministers failed to reach an agreement in Naples on a common goal – to […]

    Arid lands are 41% of the land. Why the deserts are approaching
    24 Jul 2021

    According to the UN data, arid lands already occupy 41% of the earth’s landmass and serve as a habitat for more than 2 billion people. Let’s get acquainted with the most significant current examples of desertification and вrought, collected by Rubryka. According to the secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, by 2030, 135 […]

    Cloud seeding, straw in dunes and drone trees: how the world solves the problem of desertification
    22 Jul 2021

    Let’s talk about ways to maintain balance on the planet. Some of them will definitely surprise you: for example, text messages from… spinach. We’re thankful to Rubryka for their amazing review. We have become almost accustomed to unusually low temperatures and abnormal heat in recent years, which change very quickly. We even treat these weather […]