Violent flooding from glacier lakes formed or enlarged by climate change threatens at least 15 million people worldwide, most of them in four countries, researchers said Tuesday. . Some 90 million people across 30 countries live in 1,089 glacial lake basins, they found. 15 million of them reside within one kilometre of the track an outburst flood would take.
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating earthquake and warned several others may also have been hit.. We are also deeply saddened by the damage to cultural heritage sites in Turkey and Syria," said the NGO Blue Shield International which monitors the protection of heritage sites around the world.
British energy giant BP on Tuesday announced record annual profit thanks to soaring oil and gas prices, as it watered down its target for cutting carbon emissions.. - Emissions target - BP on Tuesday also said its carbon emissions would not fall as quickly as anticipated.
Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said Tuesday.. A new report Tuesday said pollution is a key driver in the "development, transmission and spread" of AMR, calling for urgent action to clean up the environment.
Electric trucks produce far fewer planet-warming emissions than their diesel counterparts over a lifetime, a report in Europe showed Tuesday, emphasizing that the biggest climate impact comes from driving vehicles and not manufacturing them.. While more electric buses and light vehicles are on the road throughout the EU, diesel still powered 99 percent of trucks sold in Europe in 2021. tsz/jv/mh/lth
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said on Tuesday it was ready to provide assistance after two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating earthquake.. - 'Rapidly secure' sites - In Turkey, UNESCO said it was saddened by the "collapse of several buildings" at the World Heritage site of the Diyarbakir Fortress and the adjacent Hevsel Gardens.
The energy industry must play a role in the campaign to tackle global warming, the president of this year's UN climate talks said on Tuesday, denying any "conflict of interest".. "It's not a conflict of interest, it is in our common interest to have the energy industry working alongside everyone on the solutions that the world needs."
Rescuers in Turkey and Syria braved frigid weather, aftershocks and collapsing buildings Tuesday, as they dug for survivors buried by an earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people.. Chinese state media said on Tuesday that Beijing was sending rescuers, medical teams and other supplies.
Ma Yu launches her makeshift polystyrene boat into a Yangon creek for another day of trawling the filthy waters for plastic and tin cans with her team of "river cleaners".. But the tidal surges can be treacherous, says Ma Yu, who was knocked off her boat on one of her early forays onto the water.
The kitten "was rolled into a ball" and had "his paws deformed and his little face burned," said Carolina Gonzalez, a volunteer at a make-shift clinic in Santa Juana, one of the settlements hardest hit by devastating forest fires in Chile this past week. . Angulo said volunteer teams are travelling to villages, fields and forests in search of animals that need help after the devastating blazes that hit south-central Chile since last week.
