Global Warming

Sharm el-Sheikh — Experts warn that fossil fuels must stay in the ground in order to prevent the worst effects of the climate emergency and putting at risk the goal of curbing global warming to a 1.5 degrees increase from pre-industrial levels. Africa contributes the least to global warming and has…

UN climate talks that were supposed to end Friday were extended by a day in an effort to break a deadlock over creating a fund for developing countries devastated by the fallout from global warming. ...Read More

Africa’s natural resources are at the heart of a heated debate about how to balance economic growth and tackle global warming. At the current COP27 negotiations in Egypt, dubbed by some as the “African COP”, the continent’s leaders are trying to get support and funding to tap into Africa’s vast…

(RNS) — Many reasons have been suggested as to why highly religious Americans are less likely to be worried about climate change or work to try to stem it. But in the end, a new Pew Research survey concludes, it’s all about politics. “The main driver of U.S. public opinion…

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…