The U.S. State of California has been at the forefront of the fight against climate change; however, it continues to battle increasingly devastating wildfires year in, year out. A recent report by U.S. scientists revealed California’s 2020 wildfire season was the most destructive on record and caused 127 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to be released into …
Read More »What is the next major challenge in fighting climate change?
77th UNGA President Csaba Korosi was a keynote speaker at CGTN America’s special program: Global Action Initiative 2022 on Sustainability. He says the consequences of climate change will be dire if we do not act now and explains why. #GAI #heat Watch CGTN LIVE on your computer, tablet or mobile …
Read More »Is the impact of climate change reversible?
Executive Director of WWF, Marco Lambertini talks about the human impact on the environment. For more, check out our special program: Global Action Initiative 2022 on Sustainability at 2300 GMT between December 15-20. #GAI #heat Watch CGTN LIVE on your computer, tablet or mobile https://cgtnamerica.vhx.tv/videos/hd-live-broadcasts Subscribe to CGTN America on …
Read More »Jeff Masters on hurricanes & climate change
CGTN’s Asieh Namdar speaks with Jeff Masters, a writer for for Yale Climate Connections, about how hurricanes have been affected by climate change, as U.S. President Joe Biden views the destruction from Hurricane Ian in Florida. #WorldToday Watch CGTN LIVE on your computer, tablet or mobile http://america.cgtn.com/livenews Subscribe to CGTN …
Read More »Climate change forces migration
As climate change becomes an increasingly obvious phenomenon around the world, it is contributing to other crises; one of which is migration. In Central America, more extreme weather is a serious problem for the most rural communities who, unable to feed themselves as their ancestors did, see no choice but to move. CGTN’s …
Read More »Farmers in Bangladesh adapt to climate change
As climate change worsens flooding, impacting local agriculture, farmers in Bangladesh are growing crops a different kind of way. And as sea levels continue to rise, more families and farmers are turning to this method of farming. #Bangladesh #Agriculture #farm #produce #food #GAI #cgtnamerica source
Read More »Climate change threatens the future of string music
To create string instruments craftspeople depend on spruce trees. But to make a guitar the tree has to meet specific requirements, and as climate change impacts their growth and kills them faster, how will the guitars and violins of the future be made? #string #tree #spruce #music #climatechange #cgtnamerica #GAI …
Read More »Climate change threatens U.S. historic site
Jamestown was home to the first permanent English settlement in the U.S., and there’s also evidence of enslavement in the area. Now the archaeological site is threatened by increasingly frequent and heavy rain. #climatechange https://bit.ly/3H5gJMJ Watch CGTN LIVE on your computer, tablet or mobile http://america.cgtn.com/livenews Subscribe to CGTN America on …
Read More »Climate change impacts U.S. wildfires
Investigators in Colorado are looking into the possibility that spontaneous combustion inside an abandoned underground coal mine may have triggered the most destructive fire in the state’s history. More than 1,000 homes were lost when the blaze burned through several suburban communities there in late December. Until recently, wildfires in the Western U.S. occurred mainly …
Read More »Scientists in Chile study climate change in hidden paradise
Scientists and researchers studying the effects of climate change are analyzing the flora and fauna of one of Chile’s remote forests deep in the country’s south. Check out what they have discovered. source
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