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Europe is having trouble getting enough water before another summer of drought.
European leaders are working hard to solve a growing water problem before what researchers fear could be another summer of drought caused by the climate crisis.
Due to the worsening climate crisis, Europe is running out of water. This is clear in the rivers and ski slopes, which have be...
Reduced emissions are associated with fewer deaths from heat in the Middle East and North Africa, according to a new research.
Scientists said on Tuesday that avoiding hundreds of thousands of heat-related deaths in the Middle East and North Africa could be achieved by meeting global goals to limit climate change and encouraging better adaptation in the region. Reducing carbon emissions to keep global warming below two d...
What's behind oil companies' advocacy for climate change technology
The oil industry appears to be doing well by most accounts. The demand for oil and gas is still very strong, and the industry made remarkable profits last year. But the industry is also feeling the heat to solve the climate crisis, and it wants a piece of the federal government's massive pie ...
German police arrest climate campaigner Greta Thunberg at coal mine demonstration
At a demonstration in the west German village of Lützerath against the construction of a coal mine, police detained climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, according to a CNN station. As reported by the German news agency dpa, hundreds of climate activists continued their demonstrations across we...
As a platform, Twitter has long been a hub for spreading false information on climate change.
As a platform, Twitter has long been a hub for spreading false information on climate change. A study of climate-related chats conducted under new owner Elon Musk and released exclusively with USA TODAY found that misinformation about the warming globe was spreading at a rapid pace. Similar findi...
According to a survey, 69 percent of Indians are experiencing serious repercussions from climate change
A recent study for the World Economic Forum found that almost two-thirds of Indians believe that climate change has already had a significant impact on the locations where they live and that it is possible that their families will be uprooted within the next 25 years. Between July 22 and August 5...
As industry seeks access to renewables, the global oil and gas map is changing
According to consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Ltd., the oil industry's relationship with renewable energy is reshaping the global oil map.
According to Andrew Latham, vice president at Wood Mackenzie, in a new report, oil majors that want to reduce their carbon footprint will need to ...
MEP believes discussing climate change shouldn't exclude health
Sara Cerdas, a socialist MEP, argues that the conversation on how climate change affects health needs to be expanded since, if we do nothing, society would incur unthinkable health expenditures.
The health (ENVI) and COVID-19 committees of the European Parliament are both served by soci...
Debt and Climate Change
Climate change and the economy are two of Australia's new left-of-centre government's major issues. After the counting of postal votes, Labor has gained enough seats to create a majority government over two weeks after the May 21 election. In addition, there are a record amount of women i...
Where does climate change fit into the Australian election
While southern Australia recovers from the devastation caused by the 'Black Summer' bushfires in 2019-2020, towns in Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) have recently been hit by terrible floods.
Some cities have seen 'once in a century' floods twice in a matter of week...
The Chemical Industry in the United States Faces a Wide Range of Climate Risks
Since the Industrial Revolution, climate change has been mostly driven by human activity, posing a serious threat to the chemical industry as well as employee health and safety. The weather is getting warmer, and the fact that the worldwide sea level has increased by almost 8 inches since 1880 is...
New York University Abu Dhabi is establishing research centres to study climate change and artificial intelligence
New specialised sections will study engineering and robotics.
New York University Abu Dhabi has announced four new research centres as part of its ambitious aims to combat climate change and enhance artificial intelligence.
The Research Institute at NYUAD will be the driving f...
The silence on climate change is deafening in Australia's election campaign
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered its third and final report on the IPCC's evaluation of climate science the week before the election, indicating the chance of temperatures climbing 1.5C (probably likely) and 2C over pre-industrial levels. It was rather upsetting ...
The EU has announced a €55 million budget for climate change monitoring
The EU announced a total of 44 pledges for the 2020-2022 period at the Our Ocean Conference (OOC) in Palau. The Commission will fund greater maritime environmental monitoring through Copernicus over two years.
Copernicus investigates the global and regional scales of the maritime enviro...
The world must prioritise public health: climate change and natural disasters must be addressed urgently
Public health as an agenda has grown in prominence over the last two decades and is unquestionably poised to define the present and future risk-scape. Prudence suggests that incorporating public health into all policies may benefit the Asia Pacific Region in addressing the adaptation gap caused b...
Climate change is being highlighted as a problem by Australia's leading health researchers
Climate change is an essential health problem, according to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
According to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences, climate change is one of the most serious risks to human health and well-being in the twenty-first centu...
18 countries have gone green on climate, and they have reaped the benefits
Clean energy advocates and think tanks have long claimed that it is feasible to cut emissions while maintaining economic growth. According to the most recent study from the world's top climate scientists, 18 nations have done just that, sustaining emissions reductions "for at least a dec...
Climate change threatens about a third of the US facilities that store hazardous chemicals
Global warming and its accompanying climate effects endanger almost one-third of chemical facilities in the United States that contain dangerous compounds, according to the US Congress' Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The congressional committee discovered that 31% of the EP...
Australia Considering to Import Carbon and Export Hydrogen
Recently, the liquefied hydrogen was successfully shipped from Australia to Japan. For the first time, the export of commercially produced hydrogen as a pressurized liquid at -253o C temperature would be done. Geology of the land is a big factor in the convenient transportation of gaseous hydroge...
Australia’s Climate War
In 2001, Australia began to work on its national energy policy.
John Howard calls himself a climate change agnostic despite the fact that his government had proposed a trading scheme for emissions before the 2007 election. Had he not lost the election, the Australian response to climate...