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How Azerbaijan locked up climate and social justice advocate ahead of COP29. 4 November 2024. Azeri economist Farid Mehralizada has argued that his country’s reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable and dangerous – he is now in prison ahead of the climate summit in Baku. What Trump got wrong on China, coal and climate.
Seen from space: Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe
Aug 26, 2022 · One of the main problems of extreme drought in freshwater ecosystems are the impacts to biodiversity, explained Colvin. With lower water levels, pollutants become more concentrated, increasing their toxicity to wildlife. Combined with extreme temperatures, “anything living in those rivers is really struggling to survive,” she said.
Lessons from London’s 1952 fog could save millions today
Mar 3, 2017 · In December 1952, London experienced a catastrophe. As depicted in the Netflix series The Crown (which last year aired on Chinese streaming sites) the disaster seemingly came out of nowhere, as sunny blue skies suddenly gave way to a choking, blinding, fog that enveloped the city and was more severe than anything many had seen before.. Lack of visibility brought normal life to a halt, with ...
Why Grenada had to nationalise its electricity for $60m to pursue ...
Published on 05/02/2021, 2:15pm. A one-sided privatisation deal and flawed World Bank advice landed Grenada with a hefty legal bill to reform its electricity sector and cut reliance on polluting diesel. Despite its sunshine and volcanos, Grenada …
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Megan Rowling is the editor of Climate Home News, taking over in February 2024 after nearly two decades as a journalist with the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF), developing its award-winning coverage of climate change. She has written extensively on international climate politics and finance, with a focus on the developing world, for which she won a UN Correspondents’ Association award in 2016.
Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
Feb 9, 2016 · Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records show. Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of climate change. Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies on the way ...
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IPCC's input into key UN climate review at risk as countries clash
Aug 5, 2024 · The UN climate body has officially requested that its scientific counterpart align its activities with the timeline of the next global stocktake. The IPCC’s input will be “invaluable” for the international review of climate action, Simon Stiell, chief of the UN climate body, told the IPCC meeting in January.
Climate change, desertification and migration: Connecting the dots
Apr 27, 2012 · By Tierney Smith. Climate change, desertification and migration, while all separate issues in their own right, they are also increasingly entwined. While climate change and desertification can often go hand in hand, each one able to exacerbate the other, the role these two factors play in migration is starting to gain increasing prominence in research circles.
We can grow more climate-friendly rice - Climate Home News
Dec 7, 2019 · Accounting for around 2.5% of all global human-induced GHG emissions, rice’s climate footprint is comparable to that of international aviation. Rice production is estimated to be responsible for 12% of total methane global emissions, mainly due to its anaerobic decomposition during its production processes. “Rice grows mostly in flooded ...