About 800,000 hectares of forest destroyed so far in region enveloped by smoke as Russia suffers through ‘abnormal heatwave,’ The Guadian reports. Russia’s army has sent water-bombing planes to support thousands of firefighters battling huge wildfires in Siberia, a region known for its frozen tundra that is now sweltering under a heatwave. Flames are tearing […]
The number of wildfires in California to date this year is greater than the amount recorded in the same period in 2020 — a year which saw more burned acreage than any recorded year in history, according to data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, also (CAL FIRE). Between January 1 to […]
“There is an urgent need for research into the climatic mechanisms that influence the coming and going of droughts,” Yossi Mekelberg, professor of international relations and an associate fellow of the MENA Program at Chatham House, states. Let’s get aquinted with his thoughts about drought menace written for Arab News. It might have been for […]
Nearly 700 million people worldwide live in low coastal zones vulnerable to sea-level rise and coastal storms. That number could reach a billion by 2050, The Guardian states. Let’s check the article written by Peter Gleick. He is co-founder of the Pacific Institute, a hydrologist and climatologist, and a member of the US National Academy […]
The Gulf of Mexico is on fire, set on fire by another oil and gas corporation. This time it’s Mexican. Natural gas is burning. Such surrealistic paintings bring us closer to extinction, and it’s speeding up. Mexico’s state-owned oil company said on June, 2 it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the […]
What’s wrong with nuclear energy? Proponents of this industry say that “the atom will save the world” and all of us from the climate crisis. Meanwhile, environmental activists say the opposite. Let’s start the investigation of how nuclear energy is represented in art and mass culture. We’re thankful to Ecoaction NGO for a brilliant review. […]
A lack of rainfall has led to severe drought across Iraq, forcing many farmers to leave their farmlands uncultivated, sending wild animals and birds desperate for food. Although Hemin Shukir personally managed to dodge severe drought this year, most of his crops have been destroyed by hungry birds. “As you see, sparrows have entirely eaten […]
India’s cyclone season is being made more intense by the rapidly heating Indian Ocean, scientists have warned. Last week India was battered by Cyclone Tauktae, an unusually strong cyclone in the Arabian Sea, resulting in widespread disruption, The Guardian states. From May 12-19, in the midst of the devastating second wave of the pandemic, the […]
The international environmental organization Greenpeace has called on the UN to take immediate action to prevent a possible environmental disaster off the coast of Yemen, where the abandoned FSO Safer tanker with 1.1 million barrels (140 thousand tons) of oil is moored. “The question is not if, the question is when. Moored six kilometers off […]
When seen from above, it looks like a brush of beige swirled across the dark blue waters of the Sea of Marmara. Up close, it resembles a creamy, gelatinous blanket of quicksand. Now scientists are warning that the substance, known as sea snot, is on the rise as a result of global heating. The gloopy, […]
