Global Warming

CAIRO - COP27 entered its final week on Monday with rich carbon polluters and developing nations at loggerheads over how to speed up and fund reductions in emissions to slow global warming. The standoff comes with wealthy nations pressed into acknowledging the need to compensate emerging economies for accelerating climate…

Activists from around the world took to the streets of the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, where the United Nations Climate Conference, COP27, is taking place. They were calling on industrialised nations to pay for global warming’s impact on the most vulnerable nations. And there was a strong…

Chinese-Dutch joint study says conflict and climate change make the EAT-Lancet food plan more advisable Climate-friendly planetary health diet would cut meat consumption and waste, ease food shortages and improve food production Published: 12:01am, 15 Nov, 2022 Updated: 12:01am, 15 Nov, 2022 Read More

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New research has shown climate change could alter lightning patterns across Europe. This could lead to more lightning over mountains and in Northern Europe and less lightning over central Europe. The Newcastle University and Met Office-led study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, finds there could be a picture…

Loss and damage will be a hot topic at this year's climate change conference, COP27, in Egypt.Nine years ago, UN climate negotiators agreed to set up a mechanism for loss and damage, but little has come of it.The UN's Antonio Guterres recently called for windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies…

Wood feeding termites (Microcerotermes spp) inside their nest. Credit: Johan Larson, Author provided When we consider termites, we may think of the danger they can pose to our houses once they settle in and start eating wood. But in fact, only about 4% of termite species worldwide are considered pests…

WARNING THE WORLD Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on Friday, Sept. 23, 2022 (September 24 in Manila). AFP PHOTO Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan's Prime Minister…

/ Asia / Pacific Issued on: 24/09/2022 - 09:07Modified: 24/09/2022 - 09:11 Prime Minister of Pakistan Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, at the U.N. headquarters. © Julia Nikhinson, AP Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned Friday that his…

SETH BORENSTEIN and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Sep. 23, 2022Updated: Sep. 23, 2022 6:17 p.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of17Activists walk through lower Manhattan for the Global Climate Strike protests, Friday, Sept. 23, 2022, in New York.Brittainy Newman/APShow MoreShow Less 2of17Activists gather and walk through…