Global Warming

A man carries usable belongings salvaged from his flood-hit home across a flooded area in Shikarpur district of Sindh province, of Pakistan, on Aug. 31.Fareed Khan/The Associated Press The UN weather agency is predicting that the phenomenon known as La Nina is poised to last through the end of this…

Before and after flooding in Gudpur, Pakistan, on Aug. 30, 2022. Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies. Large parts of Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces are inundated by floodwaters, with normally dry land transformed into lakes when viewed from space. More than 1,000 people are dead, and 33 million affected after…

(RNS) — When I was young boy in the 1950s, cowboy movies were popular. It was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys because, in the movies, the good guys wore white hats and rode white horses, and the bad guys wore black hats and rode dark…

Photos a) and b) show the observation equipment used in this study. They were taken from the ice and underwater, respectively. Photo c) shows the arrangement of the observation stations, taken from a helicopter looking downward. Here, the white, light blue, and dark blue areas are sea ice (or snow),…

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has published research showing that snapping shrimp are sounding a warning about global warming. In a paper published in Frontiers in Marine Science, researchers found a direct correlation between the volume and frequency of the sounds made by two species of snapping shrimp and…

Sunrise in New Caledonia. — UnsplashAccording to a recent research study, most regions in the world will face "extreme heat" by the year 2100. The paper published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment  stated that the most vulnerable regions would be the tropics and subtropics. The Indian subcontinent, huge…

Scientists had long predicted that global warming would lead to more extreme weather - but what is concerning them now is the speed with which the records are tumbling A dried up lake in Wanstead Park, north east London (Image: PA) This week Britain is set for the second major…

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At a time of rising fuel costs, and broiling heatwaves in Europe and the US, the UN secretary-general, Antόnio Guterres, described the record profits of oil and gas companies as immoral and urged governments to introduce a windfall tax, using the money to help those most in need. The ‘grotesque…

Engineer Andrew Kenny reports that the UK Met Office claimed that this summer in Europe saw record weather extremes, record low rainfall, record high rainfall, a record number of hot days, and so on. But Kenny says the official data, including those of the CET, showed nothing of the kind.…