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PARIS: Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere this year will exceed key trajectories for limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Britain's Met Office predicted on Friday (Jan 19), with researchers reaffirming that that only "drastic" emissions cuts can keep the target in sight.

Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.

The following is reproduced from a 2013 self published article by Dr David Kear. Dr Kear has impeccable credentials as a climate scientist, and to his advantage, was educated when universities schooled students in how to think, and didn't tell them what to think. He died in 2019 aged 95. It is perhaps the most powerful…

Militarisation is accelerating climate change, and both are harming human and planetary health. We need strong medical voices advocating and educating against this existential threat, argues Bimal Khadka In December 2023, the 28th UN climate summit (COP28) set a landmark with the adoption of two new themes on “health” and “relief, recovery, and peace.”1 Almost 2000 health professionals attended, which reflected awareness that the climate crisis is a massive public health threat.2 They we...

A Franco-Swiss study predicts that the volume of ice in Europe’s glaciers will shrink by 34-50% by 2050.

Air agency is reviewing claims by law center that plant proposal ‘vastly underestimated’ emissions

World News - DAVOS – Climate change threatens to cause an additional 14.5 million deaths and US$12.5 trillion ($16.7 trillion) in economic losses worldwide by 2050, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report published on Jan 16. The report, jointly compiled by the WEF and the... Read more at www.tnp.sg

What's a tonne of CO2 in context, or a kilowatt-hour? We unpack all the climate and energy numbers you might be confused by.

<p> Southern Africa contains the vast majority of the world’s remaining populations of both black and white rhinoceroses (80% and 92%, respectively). The region’s climate is changing rapidly as a result global warming. Traditional conservation efforts aimed at protecting rhinos have focused on poaching, but until now, there has been no analysis of the impact that climate change may have on the animals. A research team from the University of Massachusetts Amhers...

“There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” That’s a line from the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of scientists and economists around the globe who contribute to a regular update on the climate crisis. The latest trifecta of storms […]