Global Warming

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…

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Scores of world leaders reaffirmed their commitment to limiting human-caused global warming at Wednesday’s Climate Week summit during the United Nations General Assembly. But emissions under new climate action plans submitted so far this year under the Paris Agreement would still add up to so much warming that more climate…

Over the summer, massive wildfires on the prairies produced the worst air quality in the world -- in Montreal, notes Tom Mulcair. Above, wildfires in Wanless, Man., in May. Mabitoba government via The Associated Press Article content By: Tom Mulcair THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to…

Hydrogen can indirectly warm the atmosphere AXA/ESA Levels of hydrogen in the atmosphere have jumped by 60 per cent since pre-industrial times, underscoring the dramatic impact fossil fuel burning has had on the planet’s atmospheric composition. Although hydrogen is not a greenhouse gas, it has an indirect warming effect through…

Plans to end global warming hinge on driving net greenhouse gas emissions to zero (plus or minus a few gigatonnes). It’s not going well. CO 2 emissions hit an all-time high last year, and for the first time average temperatures on Earth rose 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels. To limit…