Representative Image (AI-generated) Iceland is experiencing one of its hottest summers, with temperatures exceeding 26 degrees Celsius on May 15. According to the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA), this extreme heat is a result of global warming and has caused Greenland’s ice sheet to melt 17 times faster than the historical average.The Arctic region […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) WASHINGTON: Twenty-two young Americans sued the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing its executive orders to expand fossil fuel development and dismantle climate protections violate their fundamental rights to life and liberty.The plaintiffs, primarily from Montana, where the case was filed in a federal court, along with […]
The European Union and China must “take on global climate leadership” in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a French government source said Wednesday, ahead of a top French official’s visit to Beijing.Agnes Pannier-Runacher, France’s minister for ecological transition, is slated to meet counterparts on Thursday and Friday in […]
German court dismisses climate case against RWE (Photo: AP) In a decision that has been ten years in the making, judges in the western German city of Hamm have thrown out the case of a Peruvian farmer seeking damages from energy giant RWE for the risk of flooding connected to melting glaciers.Delivering its verdict in […]
Two churches, one Catholic and one Baptist are flooded by the Kentucky River (Image: AP) Human-caused climate change intensified deadly rainfall in Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee and other states in early April and made those storms more likely to occur, according to an analysis released Thursday by the World Weather Attribution group of scientists. The series […]
PARIS: Europe is “absolutely vital” to the fight against global warming and its leadership must not waver as climate ambition backslides elsewhere, the CEO of November’s COP30 summit in Brazil told AFP.In an interview in Paris, Ana Toni urged the European Union to unite around a strong emissions reduction target as the 27-nation bloc squabbles […]
LAO CAI: Nguyen Thi Kim’s small verdant community in northern Vietnam no longer exists, wiped away in a landslide triggered by Typhoon Yagi’s devastating heavy rains last year.She and dozens of survivors have been relocated to a site that authorities hope will withstand future climate change-linked disasters, with stronger homes, drainage canals and a gentler […]
US President Donald Trump The Department of Commerce announced Tuesday it is pulling $4 million in federal funding from Princeton University, a move that strikes a blow to climate research projects associated with the prestigious institution. According to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the funding cuts followed “a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the Department’s […]
