Climate Change

The Covid-19 pandemic has had little impact on the nominations submitted to the Nobel committee in Oslo this year

The government blames the acute labour shortages afflicting the UK economy not on its hardline approach to Brexit but on the coronavirus pandemic.

Loss of coral from 2009 to 2018 varied by region, ranging from five percent in East Asia to 95 percent in the eastern tropical Pacific.

The COP26 UN climate summit, which begins October 31 in Glasgow, is being billed as crucial to the continued success of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Johnson hailed a pledge made a day earlier by Chinese President Xi Jinping to end coal financing overseas

The deal eliminates tariffs on UK exports to Australia and on imported Australian goods such as wine, swimwear and confectionery goods.

It is rare for such storms to strike America's northeastern seaboard and comes as the surface layer of oceans warms due to climate change.

Environmental groups led by the Earthjustice advocacy group sued the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland after the notice.

Plastic debris causes the deaths of more than a million seabirds every year, as well as more than 100,000 marine mammals, from otters to whales.

It was just three months ago when the Duke of Sussex called climate change a "most pressing issue."

Projects could include airplanes that don't spew pollution and technology for capturing carbon from the air.

French President Emmanuel Macron called for the November climate conference to fully recognise the gravity of the situation

The fires' strength and scale have exposed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to days of criticism

Turkey's defence ministry released satellite images showing the extent of the damage, with forest areas turned black and smoke still visible.

Climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology said climate change was warming the Arabian Sea.

PG&E acknowledged its equipment was to blame for the Paradise disaster and filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2019.

Authorities have issued the highest warning level for Henan province as floods continue to hammer the region

Some 2,000 people have had to evacuate, with more following on Sunday.

In some areas, police deployed speedboats and divers to retrieve bodies.

Because a warmer atmosphere holds more water, climate change increases the risk and intensity of flooding from extreme rainfall.

Although Covid-19 lockdowns and travel restrictions saw emissions plunge in 2020, concentrations of planet-warming CO2 continue to climb ever higher.

The heat wave continued to move eastward on Thursday into the central Canadian prairies.

Environment Canada said the "prolonged, dangerous and historic heat wave will persist through this week."

Australia's own government had already downgraded the reef's long-term outlook to "very poor" after back-to-back mass bleaching events in 2016 and 2017.

Large numbers of rodents were reported as early as October, their population fuelled by a bumper crop after the worst drought in living memory.

Icebergs form when hunks of ice break off from ice shelves or glaciers and begin to float in open water.

Bloomberg predicts that it will take until 2060 before China can meet its cryptocurrency industry's needs through renewable energy.

The World Bank says that the more people and assets are concentrated in urban centres the greater the exposure to climate and disaster risk.

Wealthy nations have put an emphasis on Covax, a UN-backed programme meant to share vaccines with the poorest nations.

Backed by the United Nations, the Green Climate Fund is intended to transfer funds from wealthy countries to poorer nations at risk of climate change.