Global Warming

ISABELLA O'MALLEY, Associated Press March 13, 2023 This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of11FILE - People travel by boat in a flooded street in Trizidela do Vale, state of Maranhao, Brazil, May 9, 2009. The intensity of extreme drought and rainfall has “sharply” increased over the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in 2018. (AP)President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi in February planned to produce 40,000 rockets for Russia and instructed officials to keep production and shipment secret “to avoid problems with the West.” Read More

Indonesia plans to convert its diesel fuel-fired power plants to gas-fired power plants starting this year as a part of its energy transition program.The Indonesian government hopes the gas conversion project could be funded by a US$20 billion energy transition deal with developed countries called the Just Energy Transition Partnership…

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Cop28 president and oil and gas executive Sultan al-Jaber urged energy conference participants in Houston to do more faster to limit global warming A top oil executive from the United Arab Emirates has urged the energy industry to join the fight against climate change, borrowing a famous line from a…

As global warming reaches record highs, more companies are promising multiple sustainability efforts, whether it is shared global goals to cut carbon emissions or prioritise renewables, or measures to reverse forest loss and land degradation.  But many companies are struggling to measure the true value of their sustainability and decarbonization…

I have been personally concerned about how existing U.S. laws that were intended to support environmental protection and racial equality could be undone by the Supreme Court. The increasingly used "major questions doctrine" threatens to erode protections that have been baked into lawmaking books for decades, leaving the future landscape…

LONDON: Scotland has become the first country in the world to ban the use of the anesthetic desflurane due to its harmful impact on the environment, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. “Desflurane, used as an anesthetic during the surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide,“ the…

The oceans help to limit global warming by soaking up carbon dioxide emissions. But scientists have discovered that intense warming in the future could lessen that ability, leading to even more severe warming. The discovery comes from a study led by The University of Texas at Austin in which researchers…

Last September, researchers in the UK launched a high-altitude weather balloon that released a few hundred grams of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, a potential scientific first in the solar geoengineering field, MIT Technology Review has learned. Solar geoengineering is the theory that humans can ease global warming by deliberately…