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Climate change is leading to a spike in mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in Europe, according to the latest official figures. There were 130 locally acquired cases of dengue fever in the EU last year, compared to 71 cases in 2022, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) revealed this week. There has been a recent spike in cases in Europe, with the invasive mosquito species found in 13 EU countries. Dengue fever is spread by tiger mosquitoesDengue - also called break-bone fever because of how bad the joint pain can be - is a viral and potentially fatal infection spread to ...
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The EU Parliamentary election results have ended the greenest European Parliament ever. The last five years have seen the bloc embrace one of the most ambitious climate strategies in the world, the Green Deal. Now Green parties have shed seats, dropping from the fourth largest group to the sixth with 53 seats. The mainstream parties which supported the Green Deal kept their majority which means it likely isn’t going anywhere. But with wins for radical parties on both the left and right - which often oppose the plan - it could mean a fight to push for further measures to meet net-zero targets. ...
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Construction and climate change are eating away at one stretch of the Spanish coast at an alarming rate. Between 2016 and 2022, the Arraijanal-San Julián coast between Torremolinos and Málaga receded up to 45 metres. The Spanish government has said for decades that the country’s coastline suffers from the “generalised process of coastal regression”. But the extent of the problem on this part of the Costa del Sol puts the situation into focus. So much so that the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea has declared it “a situation of serious regression”. For this to happen the beach must h...
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Parts of southern Romania, including the capital Bucharest, are now subject to an orange heatwave warning. Doctors have warned that vulnerable people, such as children and the elderly, should avoid prolonged exposure to the sun. Last Romania also endured a heatwave. In July and August 2023 the temperature climbed to 39 degrees Celsius in the eastern city of Iasi. The rate Earth is warming hit an all-time high in 2023 with 92% of last year’s surprising record-shattering heat caused by humans, top scientists calculated.
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Euronews asks MEP candidates and EU citizens what their priorities are for the European Parliament elections. Flower shop owner Annette proposes she would speed up bureaucracy in Germany, which would help her and other business owners make quicker decisions. Volt Candidate for European Parliament Nela Riehl says she would strive to make Europe climate neutral by 2040 as our ecosystem is under threat by climate change.
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — In 2015, Indonesian forestry giant Asia Pulp & Paper announced it would retire thousands of hectares of its commercial timber plantation in Sumatra, with the ultimate goal of restoring the land back to the tropical peat swamp it once was. The ambitious project marked a notable shift in the forest management practices of APP, which had been heavily criticized in the past for draining and clearing large swaths of carbon-rich peat forests to plant the acacia trees from which paper, packaging and many other consumer products are made. Central to APP’s effort was rew...
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By Liz Kimbrough Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and store it in their leaves, stems, roots and the soil. But as climate change and human activities drive more plant species toward extinction, that stored carbon could be released back into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating climate change. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests this biodiversity-driven carbon loss may be a major overlooked source of future emissions. The researchers used computer modeling to estimate that losing plant diversity around the world could release between 7 billion and 146 billion me...
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is predicting an 80 per cent chance that average global temperatures will surpass the 1.5 Celsius target laid out in the landmark Paris climate accord within the next five years. It is also likely - an 86 per cent chance - that at least one of these years will set a new temperature record, beating 2023 which is currently the warmest year. The UN weather agency said Wednesday that the global mean near-surface temperature for each year from 2024 to 2028 is expected to range between 1.1 and 1.9 degrees Celsius hotter than at the start of the industrial ...
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May 2024 was the warmest May ever recorded, marking the 12th record-breakingly hot month in a row, Copernicus scientists have said. Last month, the world's average temperature was 1.52°C higher than the average from 1850 to 1900, before industrialisation, according to the EU’s climate monitoring service. It marks the 12th consecutive month where temperatures have been hotter than ever recorded with the global average surface air temperature 0.65°C higher than the average from 1991 to 2020. “It is shocking but not surprising that we have reached this 12-month streak. While this sequence of reco...
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On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that this week for the mainland’s solid ground. They go voluntarily - sort of. The Gunas of Gardi Sugdub are the first of 63 communities along Panama’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts that government officials and scientists expect to be forced to relocate by rising sea levels in the coming decades. On a recent day, the island’s Indigenous residents rowed or ...
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