Global Warming

Wildfires are expected to become more frequent and severe as global temperatures rise COSTAS METAXAKIS/AFP via Getty Images If you told a child to stay “well away” from a cliff edge, how close to the edge could they creep before you started shouting for them to turn back? That is…

A traffic jam in Beijing in China, where air pollution has drastically reduced. Hung Chung Chih/Shutterstock Published: July 14, 2025 11.02am CEST Authors Laura Wilcox Professor, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Reading Bjørn H. Samset Senior Researcher in Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Center for International Climate and Environment…

For the past five years, a red digital clock the size of a bus, attached to a building in New York City’s Union Square, has been counting down to zero. Climate Clock, the group that installed it, describes the time that remains—about four years—as “the most important number in the…

Company's carbon credits raise questions about unproven ocean technology to fight global warmingRead More

(Image credit: Edu Hawkins/Redferns/Getty Images) One of the UK’s cultural institutions, the annual music extravaganza that is Glastonbury Festival, has just kicked off – and while tents have been pitched, flower crowns assembled, and the artists are up and running showcasing their wares on the highly coveted stages, The Pretenders’…

Rock on: how crushed stone could help fight climate change By Sara HUSSEIN Bangkok (AFP) June 24, 2025 From sugar plantations in Brazil to tea estates in India, crushed rock is being sprinkled across large stretches of farmland globally in a novel bid to combat climate change. The technique is…

Study provides first solid link between climate change and earthquake hazard...Read More

Asia is currently warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, fueling more extreme weather and wreaking a heavy toll on the region’s economies, ecosystems and societies, according to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on the ‘State of the Climate in Asia 2024’ published on…

Short, intense summer rainfall in Europe's Alpine regions is likely to become more frequent and severe in the future because of global warming, according to a study released Thursday by the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Researchers said that in a scenario where temperatures rise by two degrees Celsius (about 3.6 degrees…

The study has strong implications for Africa where natural grasslands and savannas are often misguidedly and inappropriately converted to forests, which can actually harm biodiversity and even exacerbate global warming. ...Read More