Global Warming

The world’s biggest meat and dairy companies are responsible for emitting more climate-warming methane than all of the countries in the European Union and United Kingdom combined, according to a new assessment published Monday. Livestock, mostly beef and dairy cattle, account for roughly one-third of global emissions of methane, a…

The Arctic Ocean became a major source of greenhouse gases around 56 million years ago, during a period of rapid global warming. (Image credit: Paul Souders/Getty Images) The Arctic Ocean was once an important source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere — and it could become one again, researchers warn.…

Fires were one of the reasons carbon dioxide levels increased in the atmosphere in 2024. (Image credit: Toa55 via Getty Images) The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering Earth's atmosphere increased by a record amount in 2024, locking in further global warming , according to a new report. CO2 levels…

LONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Britain must urgently prepare for global warming of at least 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2050, its climate advisers said on Wednesday, warning the country is ill-prepared for extreme weather that is already occurring...Read More

Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened speciesRead More

A small shift in the climate because of global warming took the cool out of Hong Kong’s “cold dew” day on Wednesday, meteorologists warned, with social workers calling for corresponding measures to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures on low-income families and workers. Former Hong Kong Observatory director Lam Chiu-ying…

Africa, Climate Change, Climate Change Finance, Climate Change Justice, COP30, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Health, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Health Dr Gitinji Gitahi, Amref Group CEO speaking at an event at UNGA80. Credit: Friday Phiri UNITED NATIONS, Oct 9 2025 (IPS) - The Intergovernmental…

Swiss glaciers shrank 3% this year, the fourth-biggest retreat on recordRead More

Climate change may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hail storms, new research has shown. Climate experts from the Met Office, Newcastle University and the University of Bristol used European-wide km-scale simulations to model future changes to hail with global warming. Published in the journal Nature Communications,…

As nations struggled during Climate Week (Sept 21-28) in New York City to increase their emission-reduction pledges to slow the alarming rate of global warming, Brazil stepped forward to support and showcase a novel, innovative plan of its own design to incentivize the protection of carbon-absorbing tropical forests around the…