Japan experienced its warmest spring on record this year, the national weather agency said Thursday, as greenhouse gasses and El Nino send temperatures soaring worldwide.. The United Nations said last month it was near-certain that 2023-2027 would be the warmest five-year period ever recorded.
Covered from head to toe to keep herself cool, Vu Thi Phuong pushes a trolley of coffee, lime juice and ice around Hanoi in the burning sun.. "It's not easy pushing this trolley in the heat but I keep trying my best."
Renewable power capacity will grow by a record number this year as high fossil fuel prices and energy security concerns fuelled the deployment of solar and wind systems, the International Energy Agency said Thursday.. Newly installed solar and wind capacity is estimated to have save EU electricity consumers 100 billion euros ($107 billion) between 2021-2023 by displacing costlier fossil fuels, according to the agency, which advises developed nations.
Pacific Islands expressed dismay on Thursday at Australia's subsidies for fossil fuels, flagging climate concerns as a point of friction between the neighbouring nations.. "And we know that fossil fuel is the cause of climate change."
The World Meteorological Organization, which chooses its next leader on Thursday, is today at the forefront in monitoring climate change.. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was co-founded by the WMO and the UN Environment Programme.
Chile's state-owned Codelco copper company, the world's top producer of the metal, closed its Ventanas smelter Wednesday in an area dubbed "Chile's Chernobyl" for the grim environmental impact of heavy industry. . Codelco announced it would close the Ventanas smelter after an incident in June last year when more than 100 people, mostly schoolchildren, suffered sulfur dioxide poisoning in the area around Quintero and Puchuncavi -- two coastal towns that are home to some 50,000 people.
Firefighters on Wednesday faced a grueling uphill battle against wildfires in Canada's Nova Scotia province, including one threatening suburbs of Halifax.. As of Wednesday, 14 wildfires were burning in Nova Scotia, including three out of control.
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If New York is the city that never sleeps then how's this for keeping you up at night?. Hurricane Ida in 2021 left more than a dozen people dead in New York City, many after they were unable to escape flooding basements.
Negotiators charged with hammering out a global treaty to end plastic pollution were warned there was "no time to lose" on Wednesday, after progress was slowed by two days of procedural debates that campaigners blamed on large producer countries.. Frustrations bubbled up on Wednesday after two days of delays as nations tussled over procedural rules, as large producer nations, including fossil fuel supplier Saudi Arabia, as well as China and India, resisted the idea the deal could be decided by a vote.
