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Antarctica Shows Everything Is Possible When We Work Together – Now We Need Leaders To Make History Again
30 years ago, something remarkable happened. Governments around the world agreed to make the Antarctic off limits to oil drilling and mining.
In the 1980s the debate of the fate of the Antarctic...
Amazon Expedition: The harsh reality of those living near the fires
The fires and deforestation in the Amazon have a devastating impact on the forest, biodiversity, and the global climate. We have seen news, articles, and documentaries about it.
But little is told about...
Devastating Wildfires Cause Record Emissions in Northern Hemisphere
Europe’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) has been closely monitoring a summer of extreme wildfires across the Northern Hemisphere, including intense hotspots around the Mediterranean basin and in North America and Siberia....
Climate change made floods in Western Europe more likely
Climate change has made extreme rainfall events similar to those that led to last month’s floods in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg between 1,2 and 9 times more likely to happen,...
New report shows impacts of climate change and extreme weather in Latin America and Caribbean
Climate change and extreme weather are threatening human health and safety, food, water and energy security and the environment in Latin America and the Caribbean. The impacts span the entire region, including...
Queensland’s Ambitious Actions To Tackle Climate Change
The Sunshine State has set some ambitious targets in its efforts to go renewable. The state government target is 50 percent by 2030. RenewEconomy’s live feed indicates that as of 12 noon, the...
Back to Nature in the Big City
“Nature-based solutions” is a term for all solutions that use the natural world to mitigate the effects of climate change. It sounds rural, but the phrase covers multiple possibilities, from tree planting...
Nature-Based Solutions Should Play Increased Role in Tackling Climate Change
Climate change, biodiversity loss and degradation of ecosystems are linked and all have devastating consequences for our economic and social stability, health and well-being.
Working with nature is increasingly recognised as an efficient...
New Fund Leverages Nature to Adapt to Climate Change
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration is launching in June this year. The goal is ambitious – to trigger a global movement for restoring the world’s ecosystems. This is not merely for...
How To Keep Europeans Healthy and Safe in a Changing Climate?
The briefing ’Responding to the health risks of climate change in Europe’ highlights key health impacts from climate change as well as opportunities to reduce climate-related health risks through adaptation policies aligned...
A Ten Step Plan to Save Our Seas
The year 2050 has been predicted by some to be a bleak year for the ocean. Experts say that by 2050 there may be more plastic than fish in the sea, or perhaps only...
Got Climate Change? Kelp Can Help
Kelp, which most of us refer to as seaweed, may be an important tool in the quest to limit the effects of a warming planet. Much of the carbon dioxide emitted into...
The Plan To Map Every Coral Reef on Earth – From Space
In October 2020, Australian scientists found a detached coral reef skyscraper on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—nearly 500 meters tall and 1.5 kilometres wide — that exceeds the height of the Eiffel Tower...
Mitigating Climate Change: It Starts With Better Ocean Data
For years (and we mean many years), the ocean helped us mitigate the early effects of human emissions by absorbing greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide and heat, from the atmosphere. As a...
WMO Launches E-Learning Platform for Hazard Alerts
WMO has developed a set of E-learning resources and courses for the Common Alerting Protocol, which is an internationally-recognized standard for dissemination of warnings of extreme weather hazards to the public and...
Six Ways Nature Can Protect Us from Climate Change
Restoring and protecting nature is one of the greatest strategies for tackling climate change, but not just for the obvious reason that it sucks carbon out the air. Forests, wetlands, and other...