Greece will send €500 million to help residents of the Attica region and the island of Evia (Euboea), who lost their homes and property during large-scale fires this week. In a televised address on July 8, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced additional funds to money from the EU Reconstruction Fund, which will go directly to […]
“Plant more trees” is often the first idea that comes to mind when we think about preventing further climate change or at least adapting to its impacts. There are good reasons for this. Multiple studies have shown that as well as trees being a fantastic way to store carbon dioxide, they offer other benefits, such […]
Kurdish environmentalists in Iran have been battling wildfires in Mariwan, bordering the Kurdistan Region, for three days in July, a member of a local environmental organization said for Rudaw. “It has been 72 hours now that the area of Dolabe has been burning. Dolabe, Qalanjan, Hawari Faqe Mohammed, Asnwa border southern Kurdistan [the Kurdistan Region]” […]
Today, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presented a thorough report analyzing what is happening to the planet due to human activity and what consequences we can expect from climate change. Experts have based on five scenarios – with the expectation that the world will either stop producing CO2 or emissions will double. What […]
Everyone knows that trees capture CO2 from the air; Nature Communications found that they can cool the planet in another way – by forming low clouds over forests. Most of the clouds are created by evergreen needle forests, Phys reports. Moreover, when the trees are covered with snow in winter, the clouds over the forests […]
Thousands of tourists and residents have been evacuated from towns north of the Greek capital, Athens, as wildfires spread across the country. Strong winds and high temperatures make it difficult to control the blazes, which have killed at least two people, including a firefighter. Vast clouds of smoke and ash near Athens have meant some […]
Gulf Stream and other Atlantic currents are losing stability, the consequences can be catastrophic. The system of currents in the Atlantic Ocean has shown an almost complete loss of stability over the past 100 years, which threatens with serious consequences for the Earth’s climate, The Guardian reports, citing a study published in the journal Nature […]
Every year on June 17, the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is celebrated. Activists of the Plant-Based campaign decided to find out what kind of day it is and what to do with it. Read what happened in the article. How do we affect the planet? Everything originates from the soil – a […]
The Mediterranean has become a wildfire hotspot, with Turkey hit by its most intense blazes on record and a heatwave producing a high risk of further fires and smoke pollution around the region, a European Union atmosphere monitor said on August 4. Wildfires are raging in countries including Greece and Turkey, where thousands of people […]
This piece is part of the series “All About China” – a journey into the history and diverse culture of China through short articles that shed light on the lasting imprint of China’s past encounters with the Islamic world as well as an exploration of the increasingly vibrant and complex dynamics of contemporary Sino-Middle Eastern […]
