After the Paris climate agreement was ratified in 2015, policymakers were optimistic that it would help get climate change under control. But since then, confidence in the UN climate process has gone down. Emissions need to fall drastically to limit the worst effects of climate change, but they have only increased. And this year, the summit president is someone who also heads
A new modeling study published today suggests that even if global emissions start to fall dramatically, the melting of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf will be locked in. The World's Environment Correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports.
More than three months after suspected Russian sabotage burst the Kahkovka Dam in southeastern Ukraine, the impacts are still visible. Much of the Kakhovka reservoir is dried up, as are irrigation canals important to farmland irrigation in the area. Below the dam, nearly 50 national protected areas near the Dnipro River were impacted, and some 250 square miles of forests were
In order to prevent Russian troops from advancing toward Kyiv, Ukrainian forces destroyed a dam on the Irpin River early on in the war. The flooding, as it turned out, created new wetland areas. Some conservationists hope to see the wetlands stay. Even residents whose cellars remain flooded are glad the water came and the Russian troops did not. The World’s Environment
The Ukrainian government is doing an unusually thorough job of documenting environmental damages being caused by Russian attacks. Its primary goal, according to the Ministry of the Environment, is to eventually win compensation for these damages. The government isn’t alone in this effort a handful of nonprofits are also helping, with volunteers combing news reports to help