Climate Change

The effects of climate change are no longer a future risk for Africa. They are a present crisis. Floods are destroying infrastructure that took decades to build. Droughts are collapsing harvests and displacing communities. Extreme heat is eroding labour productivity and straining health systems. Coastal communities are losing ground to…

This photo taken on July 21, 2022 shows a view of the Mount Geladandong in the source region of the Yangtze River in northwest China's Qinghai Province.  (Xinhua/Zhang Long) LANZHOU, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have uncovered the drivers of divergent climate changes across Asia over the past 130,000…

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Climate change appears to be making our days a little longer. According to a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, rising sea levels are slowing the Earth’s spin. At a rate of 1.33 milliseconds per century, it is not enough to squeeze in a quick workout…

AI + ML PLUS: SAP expands Japanese cloud; SK hynix close to shipping LPDDR6; Lenovo's biggest ever IaaS deal; and more ASIA IN BRIEF India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change last week staged a two-day national workshop titled “Policy Implementation for Minimizing Elephant Mortalities on Railway Track” –…

Seagrass meadows might not catch the eye like coral reefs, but they play an important and often unsung role in coastal protection, particularly as climate change increasingly eats away at shorelines. Protecting and restoring seagrass meadows, experts say, is a key “nature-based solution” that can also soak up and store…

Biodiversity, Conservation, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Natural Resources, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Conservation Protection of key habitats and dedicated efforts to tackle poaching in a coordinated way have allowed the sea turtle to bounce back. Credit: Jordan Robins / Ocean Image Bank SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan & SHRINGAR,…

The Winter Olympics just showcased alpine sport at its most spectacular and universal. But in the mountains themselves, access to winter sports is becoming increasingly unequal. The cost of keeping slopes open in a warming climate is climbing – and so are prices for visitors. Investment will be concentrated in…

The Arctic has been in the news a lot lately. Between the increased geopolitical interest in Greenland, claims over sovereignty, resource exploitation and the devastating impacts of climate change, the region has become a sentinel for global change. But away from these headlines, a quieter crisis is unfolding that threatens…

We’ve painted ourselves into a corner on climate change — our planet is going to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. And while greenhouse gas emissions aren’t rising as fast as they used to, we’re still emitting carbon dioxide at record-high levels, so further warming is inevitable. Stopping Earth from…