Getty Images Cyclone Sidr wrecked homes and killed more than 6,000 people when it hit Bangladesh in 2007 Human-caused climate change made the ten deadliest extreme weather events of the last 20 years more intense and more likely, according to new analysis. The killer storms, heatwaves and floods affected Europe, Africa and Asia killing more … Read more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Sustainable lifestyles, green-tech innovation, and government-led transformation each offer promising routes to make significant progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement, according to a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The team of researchers examined how these strategies could transform consumption … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Our planet is getting hotter at an alarming rate. Climate change is one of the most serious global issues today. Its consequences affect every single human being on Earth. So it seems perfectly logical that scientific publications about global warming are written in the global language: English. And yet, it is … Read more
There’s a famous piece of advice from hockey, attributed to Wayne Gretzky, about how it’s better to skate to where the puck is headed rather than where it is. Research is now showing that regulations designed to protect Lake Erie’s water quality are heeding the Great One’s words when it comes to safeguarding the Great … Read more
When extreme weather events occur, can we tell if they’re directly attributable to climate change? A new study used the 2023 heat wave in Texas and Louisiana as a test case for establishing processes that tease out whether particular weather events are climate related. “Our main goal with this project is to be able to … Read more
Homes have been wrecked and crops ruined, jeopardising regional food security. Every rainy season for the past 12 years, floods have swept through 67-year-old Idris Egbunu’s house in central Nigeria. It is always the same story—the Niger River bursts its banks and the waters claim his home for weeks on end, until he can return … Read more
Climate change-related extreme weather, such as massive flooding and prolonged drought, often result in dangerous outbreaks of diarrheal diseases particularly in less developed countries, where diarrheal diseases is the third leading cause of death among young children. Now a study out Oct. 22, 2024, in Environmental Research Letters by an international team of investigators led … Read more
FoE and two men affected by climate change lost their case against the UK government. A man whose home had to be demolished because of coastal erosion lost a landmark legal claim on Friday against the UK government that accused it of failing to meet obligations to protect citizens from the effects of climate change. … Read more
A new scientific study published this Wednesday in the journal People and Nature reveals the complex relationship between the impacts of climate change and the adaptive responses of coastal fishers in one of the areas most affected by these environmental changes: the southern coasts of Japan. Warming waters and strong currents flowing northward are rapidly … Read more
Worldwide, deforestation and farming practices are responsible for the degradation of vital ecosystems. While there is a significant amount of interest in climate mitigation by restoring those degraded lands with forests and other ecosystems, it is unclear how feasible that would be and the resulting benefits. Previous studies have not considered the effects of ecosystem … Read more