Climate

    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 […]

    Rich nations “must consign coal power to history” – UK COP26 president
    22 Jul 2021

    Climate change talks in 2021 aimed at keeping global warming in check need to consign coal power to history, the British president of the upcoming United Nations conference said on Wednesday. Britain will host the next U.N. climate conference, called COP26, in November in Glasgow, Scotland. The meeting aims to spur more ambitious commitments by […]

    Summer heat 2021 and climate change
    21 Jul 2021

    In Canada and Russia recently an abnormal heat was observed – almost +50° C. And in Kuwait, one of the warmest countries in the world, it is “more than +70° C in the sun”, according to local media. Has global warming led to this? Will it always be this way now? And is it possible […]

    Floods in Europe: death toll rises to 170 in Germany and Belgium disaster
    19 Jul 2021

    In mid-July, downpours of historic intensity occurred in several regions of Western Europe, causing many rivers to overflow their banks. Particularly affected are areas in western Germany in the lands of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. According to German meteorologists, a monthly rainfall fell per night in some areas, and such rains have not been seen […]

    It’s raining in the UAE for the first time in the middle of summer: the successful testing of cloud seeding technologies
    19 Jul 2021

    While the world is suffering from record temperatures, the United Arab Emirates has used rain call technology. Heavy rainfall has been reported in several parts of the UAE since June 14, even though it is not common in the region at this time, haqqin.az reports. In the UAE, scientists have enhanced the rain in the […]