A team of scientists from the American Northwestern University found in a study that global climate change by 2100 will irreversibly change up to 95% of the world’s oceans, making them uninhabitable. They stated it in a scientific article on the Nature portal. The climate of the ocean surface has a characteristic temperature, acidity, and […]
Scientists are learning more about fire tornadoes, the spinning funnels of flame, NPR reports. A fire tornado has been captured on video at the Tennant fire in northern California, BBC states. It is one of the latest signs of extreme weather threatening the US west, facing severe drought and record high temperatures. Thought rare, similar […]
Saudi Arabia has set up an air bridge to Algeria carrying urgent humanitarian aid to help the north African country “alleviate the effects” of deadly wildfires that swept across several cities, Arab News reports. The move has been directed by King Salman, who spoke to Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune over the phone on last week […]
According to the United Nations, Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first “climate change famine,” which says tens of thousands of people are already suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger and food insecurity after four years without rain. The drought – the worst in four decades – has devastated isolated farming communities in […]
It is now indisputable: the planet is getting hotter, and unless governments take immediate action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, dramatic changes to the climate will become irreversible. That was the verdict of the world’s foremost climate scientists in a report published earlier in August. Dubbed “code red for humanity” by UN chief Antonio Guterres, […]
Heavy rain and thunderstorms hit several areas of Oman on Thursday causing floods, ruining crops and disrupting electricity supply a day before the start of the Eid Al Adha holidays, according to state-run Oman TV and The National News. Farmers in the northern Al Dakhaliya governorate said heavy rain have swept away their crops. “I […]
The record-shattering rainfall that caused deadly flooding across Germany and Belgium in July was made up to nine times more likely by the climate crisis, according to research cited by The Guardian. The study reinforces the hard evidence that carbon emissions are the leading cause of worsening extreme weather. The study also showed that human-caused […]
This summer, Greece experienced a record heatwave when temperatures in Athens reached 44 degrees Celsius. Urban planning mistakes exacerbated the climate crisis in Athens and suffered from large-scale forest fires. Concrete rivers, chaotic buildings, and a love of cars prevent the city from resisting climate change, the New York Times states. Let’s check how strong […]
Let’s check the Rudaw story about the Garmiyan area in Iraq. It’s on the brink of an environmental disaster, desert eating away at what was once a rich agricultural region. Driving south through Sulaimani province, the snow-capped Zagros Mountains recede in the rear view mirror, and the hills subside into undulating rolls, lush green with […]
For the first time, rain was recorded on top of the giant ice cover of Greenland. This has not happened in the entire history of observations, namely – since 1950, The Guardian states. This was so unexpected that the researchers did not even have the measuring equipment. On a mountain with a height of 3 […]
