Tag Archives: Climate Change

Climate change is a threat to human rights. Court rulings are now making governments and businesses sit up and listen. Sitting back and doing nothing to stop global warming is becoming less and less of an option, as more and more citizens seek redress in the highest courts. Top courts …

Research published last year shows the massive Himalayan glaciers have shrunk 10-times faster over the past four decades than during the previous seven centuries. It threatens agriculture and the water supply for millions across South Asia. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one project aimed at blunting the environmental impact …

The boreal forest stretches over billions of acres of the northern hemisphere on three continents. It’s also key to holding up to half of all the soil-based carbon in the whole world. Scientists are using a futuristic-looking outdoor lab in Minnesota to understand it better. Ben Tracy has more. #News …

Australia has pledged to become an international role model in climate change after years of being labelled an ‘offender’ of it. #australia #climate #skynews SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us …

Britain has just had its hottest day on record at 40.3C, with homes – even villages – ablaze from Yorkshire to Surrey. Other parts of Europe were even hotter, as records were set there too. As one climate scientist put it, we used to worry about the polar bears – …

Climate change does not cause fires but a large body of scientific evidence shows it does make it more likely that we’ll suffer extreme events. source

Even before summer began, there were extreme heat waves and new heat records throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and the forecast calls for a hotter-than-normal summer in much of the U.S. Scientists say climate change is accelerating and intensifying these kinds of heat waves. It’s taken a while for some TV …

An AccuWeather expert explains how climate change may have contributed to the extreme heat. READ MORE: https://abc7chicago.com/extreme-heat-record-climate-change-effects/12068235/ source

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a few executive actions to address climate change, with a focus on helping Americans facing extreme heat. source

In central Africa a giant slab of carbon-rich peat land, discovered by a team of British and Congolese scientists, is under threat from oil companies and farming. The carbon must be kept in the ground to avoid accelerating climate change, but some plots have already been sold for oil exploration. …