Global Warming

As I write this at the end of July, 79 wildfires are burning across 12 states in the U.S. In Oregon, a mammoth fire has engulfed some 400,000 acres—an area half the size of Rhode Island—and destroyed hundreds of buildings and vehicles, including more than 160 homes. Smoke from wildfires…

ELEVENTH HOUR: The circular road toward a plastic-free, resilient Philippines Our addiction to plastics is hurting our climate and our chances of survival. You’ve probably heard news or read reports citing the Philippines as one of the world’s top plastic-polluting countries due to our tremendous plastic consumption yet paltry plastic…

As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021's onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming's wrath in the past. A motorist watches from a pullout on the Trans-Canada Highway as a wildfire burns on the side…

As the world staggers through another summer of extreme weather, experts are noticing something different: 2021′s onslaught is hitting harder and in places that have been spared global warming’s wrath in the past. Wealthy countries such as the United States, Canada, Germany and Belgium are joining poorer and more vulnerable…

On July 6, lightning sparked a fast-spreading wildfire in southern Oregon that’s now the largest in the country and the state’s third-largest on record. The Bootleg Fire, only recently getting contained after a period of cooler weather, has led more than 2,400 people to evacuate, destroyed at least 161 homes,…

Today’s big question Britain is warming more quickly than global average over past decade, says study British summers could regularly reach a “new normal” of 40C within a decade warn meteorologists in a new study by the Met Office.  “Wild weather has been a feature of this UK summer thus…

Many business owners believe that they are too small to have an impact on global environmental issues. They think it is up to corporations and governments to find solutions. Catalyst, a new research program that aims to provide businesses with an accurate picture of real-time shifts in consumer sentiment towards important…

By New Scientist and Press Association An illustration of a heatwave over Europe Sasa Kadrijevic/Alamy UK summers are likely to regularly see temperatures above 40°C even if humanity manages to limit global warming to 1.5°C, meteorologists have warned. The UK is already seeing increasingly extreme weather, with 2020 the third…

2020 may have managed to turn all clubs and music venues into ghost-towns overnight, but it undoubtedly struggled to disrupt the buzz and anticipation surrounding Amapiano. Originating from the Guateng province, Pretoria, the South African sound is transcending across the globe with its invigorating melodies and baselines. Situating itself at…

Record-shattering heatwaves caused by pace of warming: study PARIS, France — Heatwaves that obliterate temperature records as in western Canada last month and Siberia last year are caused by the rapid pace, rather than the amount, of global warming, researchers said Monday. AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN The findings, reported in Nature…