Global Warming

Emissions of greenhouse gases contribute significantly to global warming. Not only carbon dioxide (CO2) but also fluorine-containing gases -- including so-called per- or polyfluorinated hydrocarbons, or PFCs -- have a significant share in this development. Researchers at the Institute of Organic Chemistry of Heidelberg University led by Prof. Dr Michael…

The Northern Hemisphere is hot this week. Very hot. In London, temperatures climbed above 104 degrees Fahrenheit for the first time in recorded history. It was enough to melt the runway at a British air force base. In southwestern France, wildfires rampaged. In Portugal, the health ministry attributed 700 deaths to heat.…

President Joe Biden, 79, declared he has cancer on July 20 during a speech about global warming. The seemingly nonchalant comment came as the president spoke about the harmful emissions from oil refineries near his childhood home in Claymont, Del. “That’s why I and so damn many other people I…

Soaring temperatures across China, India, Pakistan, Japan, the US and Europe are endangering people’s health and countries’ energy grids Cooling buildings and warming the planet could become a vicious cycle, potentially blowing the world’s ‘energy budget’ needed to limit the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Read More

LA TESTE-DE-BUCH, France (AP) — A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northward Monday to Britain and fueled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and firefighters to battle flames spreading through tinder-dry forests. Two people were killed in the blazes in Spain…

A wide-ranging new Pew Research Center poll shows large age-related divides in Republicans' views on global warming. Driving the news: Nearly half of Republicans (or who "lean" Republican) age 18-29 say the federal government is doing too little on the topic. But as you can see above, this concern drops…

A schematic diagram indicating that warming causes a northward shift in the southern limit of the temperate seagrass Zostera marina. Credit: IOCAS Global warming has caused an increase of the average upper ocean temperature by 0.07°C per decade. These temperature increases affect marine species and ecosystems in many ways, including enhanced…

JAKARTA, July 15, 2022 - (ACN Newswire) - Indonesia's oil and gas state-owned enterprise PT Pertamina has encouraged collaboration between countries for energy transition in order to tackle global warming. Pertamina President Director Nicke Widyawati (middle) in a B20 dialogue themed "Sustainable Finance for Climate Transition" held in Bali on…

Albanese declares ‘climate emergency’ as Pacific leaders tell Australia to do more Suva: Anthony Albanese has declared a climate emergency in the Pacific, after joining regional leaders in Fiji to warn Australia’s neighbours face an immediate threat to their security and wellbeing. Following two days of meetings at the Pacific…

Carbon dioxide levels in the air have reached a record along with methane, another culprit behind global warming.   According to the National Institute of Meteorological Sciences on Tuesday, the average level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 423.1 ppm last year, which was the highest since Korea began tallying…