It was a mild day in June 2017 when Donald Trump addressed the White House rosewood lectern to announce the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement, the only comprehensive global pact to address the spiraling crisis. Todd Stern, who was America’s top negotiator when the deal …
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A woman near the ruins of a summer house destroyed by a fire in a dacha community in the Moshkovo district, Novosibirsk region, southern Siberia. The Novosibirsk region is experiencing hundreds of fires believed to have been caused by burning old grass. Kirill Kukhmar | TASS | fake pictures The …
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The average global temperature is likely to rise between 4.1 and 8.1 degrees Fahrenheit (or between 2.3 and 4.5 degrees Celsius) if current rates of fossil fuel use and deforestation continue, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing a new study. The projection in an article published in Reviews of Geophysics …
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The scientists increased the heat above the lethal threshold and waited for the corals to die. “We were heating the water one degree above the maximum summer temperature,” says Anders Meibom, a researcher at the Institute of Earth Sciences at the University of Lausanne. “At the Great Barrier Reef, after …
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Forest fires in Russia have so far burned an area larger than the size of Greece, according to Greenpeace Russia. On Monday, the environmental organization criticized government officials for their inaction in the region amid record heat waves. Using satellite data, Greenpeace Russia reported that approximately 19 million hectares, approximately …
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