Tag: Environment

AFP, Paris – It took a decade to get to the negotiating table, and it could easily take another to finish the job, but UN talks in New York to safeguard life in the high seas finally begin in earnest…

Evidence that Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing its worst coral bleaching on record has renewed calls for the UN to list it as “in-danger”.The National Coral Bleaching Taskforce says 95% of reefs from Cairns to Papua New Guinea are…

Plants respond a bit better to global warming than scientists had thought, according to a new study that suggests their potential contribution to worsening global warming is not likely as bad as researcher believed.When it gets hotter, plants breathe harder.…

Australian authorities said Sunday coral bleaching occurring in the World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef had become “severe”, the highest alert level, as sea temperatures warm.Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt said while the bleaching at this stage was not as severe…

It’s no surprise that wildly swinging temperatures, droughts, and floods aren’t exactly good for crops. California’s drought cost the state’s thirsty agricultural sector $1.84 billion in 2015 alone, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that a warming climate…

Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty and inequality, a new global assessment shows.India has a billion people at risk,…

January and February 2016 smashed temperature records, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday as it warned climate change was advancing at an “unprecedented” rate.Temperatures in the first two months of 2016 soared to new highs, following a year…

The world’s largest mangrove forest Sundarbans must be saved from destruction. But our government is turning a deaf ear to this public demand.Their short-sighted ‘development’ plans has overshadowed the importance of protecting the environment. They are eager to give local…

The world heritage site Sundarbans is still reeling from the effects of the oil spill, though the pollution level has fallen. The 2014 oil spill severely damaged the life and soil of the Sundarbans. The number of trees, fish, snakes,…

Scientists have uncovered an 80 million-year-old fossil bearing a healed attack wound, revealing the dangers of life in Earth’s prehistoric seas.In the early 1960s, palaeontologists exploring rural South Dakota unearthed the fossilised leg bone of a Hesperornis: a large aquatic…

China’s carbon emissions, by far the world’s highest, may have peaked in 2014, according to a study published on Monday, potentially putting Beijing under pressure to toughen its climate pledges.China has promised to bring greenhouse gas emissions to a peak…

Scientists Tuesday warned coral bleaching was occurring on the Great Barrier Reef as sea temperatures warm, and it could rapidly accelerate unless cooler conditions blow in over the next few weeks.Authorities cautioned last year that the world faced a mass…

As sea levels rise, threatening cities from New York to Shanghai, the economic damage will increase even faster, scientists said.Extreme floods whipped up by storms will become ever more costly for cities as ocean levels edge up around the world’s…

The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has admitted that it should have announced sooner that there was a nuclear meltdown at the site.The Tokyo Electric Power Company denied the meltdown for two…

Ruptures in Peru’s main oil pipeline have spilled 3,000 barrels of crude in an Amazonian region, operator Petroperu said Monday, and the oil has polluted two rivers native villages rely on for water, according to government officials.Two breaks in the…

The use of natural gas for electricity generation in the UK may have to decline significantly over the next 30 years, according to a new study.Without carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, gas-fired electricity would have to fall to 10%…

The apparent death of a baby dolphin after being passed around on an Argentine beach is creating a furor in the South American country.Photos and video of the incident have begun emerging this week of the incident, which local media…

Environmentalists say one of Europe’s most important wetland areas is under threat as Spain and Catalonia argue about the future of the Ebro river.Campaigners say Spanish government plans to restrict water flow could destroy the fragile landscape.They are worried that…