Climate Change

As a heat wave sweeps across Asia, Sri Lanka continues to issue heat warnings to the public as the country experiences much higher than normal temperatures coupled with high humidity and threatening health impacts.Research has already shown that annually averaged mean minimum temperatures are increasing in most parts of Sri…

Countries across the Gulf region and the wider Middle East are highly vulnerable to extreme heat borne out of climate change, with poorer populations being particularly at risk in the decades ahead, a new study has warned. The research, published in the Nature Sustainability journal and released on Monday, looks…

Climate change protesters have been dragged away as they tried to storm the stage at Shell’s shareholder meeting. Activist investors added pressure with a resolution demanding the oil and gas giant beef up its emissions strategy. Shell Chairman Andrew Mackenzie couldn't start Tuesday's meeting for more than an hour as…

THE Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) has launched a report on climate change effects, among others, it shows that children were denied the right to education due to people's migration. LHRC Executive Director Anna Henga stated: "As it is well known in Tanzania, we are implementing the Sustainable Development…

Updated 1 day ago · Published on 22 May 2023 1:52PM · As nations grapple with the complex realities of climate change, the need to focus on comprehensive, cooperative, and innovative strategies has never been more pressing. Every nation, including Malaysia, has been asked to rise to the occasion by…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Almost 40% of forest area burned by wildfire in the western United States and southwestern Canada in the last 40 years can be attributed to carbon emissions associated with the world's 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers, according to new research that seeks to…

Image source, BBC/Reuters By Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg "I myself am a boomer! I'm, like, horrible!" There's something a bit unexpected about one of the most famous people on the planet using what's become a term of abuse about themselves instead of choreographed gushing about their latest…

OTTAWA — Emissions from wildfires hit a new record in 2021 as the blazes that raged in Western Canada and Ontario produced more greenhouse gases than the oil and gas sector and heavy industry combined. Canada's forests are relied on heavily to absorb the carbon dioxide we emit when we…

New research says climate change was responsible for yet another withering heat wave, which baked South Asia in April Women filling their pitchers with water supplied by a special train on a hot summer day in Pali on May 11, 2022. Researchers say extreme heat in South Asia last month was worsened by climate…

Climate change is likely to abruptly push species over tipping points as their geographic ranges reach unforeseen temperatures, finds a new study led by a UCL researcher. The new Nature Ecology & Evolution study predicts when and where climate change is likely to expose species across the globe to potentially…