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Canada's historic wildfires last year pumped more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than India did by burning fossil fuels. Put another way, the fire spewed nearly four times the carbon emissions as flights do in a year. This is the same amount of carbon dioxide that 647 million cars put in the air in a year, based on US EPA data. The new data lays bare the vicious circle of wildfires - they are becoming more frequent due to global warming which is caused by burning fossil fuels which produces emissions. Forests remove a lot of emissions from the atmosphere so when they burn down they ...
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Cloud modifying techniques used to cool the climate in California could eventually push heatwaves towards Europe, according to a new study. If global warming reaches 2C above pre-industrial by 2050, cloud modification could majorly warm almost all of Europe except the Iberian Peninsula. The research showed the biggest increases in Scandinavia, Central Europe and Eastern Europe. The study’s authors say their findings are concerning because there are next to no regulations in place for this kind of local climate modification and the consequences could be hard to predict. “Our study provides the ...
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Just Stop Oil is keeping busy. Just one day after targeting renowned prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage Site Stonehenge, two demonstrators from the British environmental activist group, named by the group as Jennifer Kowalski, 28, and Cole Macdonald, 22, are said to have broken into a VIP private airfield at Stansted airport this morning. The pair attempted to target Taylor Swift’s jet, as the pop star is scheduled to perform at Wembley Stadium on Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week, as part of her worldwide Eras Tour. Unable to find the plane, they instead painted two other jets using fire e...
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Heatwaves have hit Europe earlier than ever this year, with Greece, Cyprus, Türkiye and Italy already hit by extreme heat, with some places seeing temperatures 10C above the seasonal average. The risk of heatwaves at the Paris Olympic Games has left organisers sweating about the safety of athletes. Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, releasing a new map to help with more accurate heatwave predictions. Cities across the continent are preparing with adaptations for extreme heat. We’ve now had 11 record-breaking months of heat in a row and sea surface temperatures in the North ...
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The storm, which struck Monday, caused significant damage to homes and infrastructure. Disaster teams are assessing the damage and providing relief, with displaced residents sheltered in government buildings. The South African Weather Service confirmed two tornadoes struck the region, causing widespread destruction. The province, historically prone to extreme weather, faced similar devastation in 2022 with over 300 deaths due to severe flooding.
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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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Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” could make the current global coral bleaching the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes as they cool the oceans. More than three-fifths - 62.9% - of the world's coral reefs are badly hurting from a bleaching event that began last year and is continuing. That's nearing the record of 65.7% in 2017, when from 2009 to 2017 about one-seventh of the world's coral died, says Derek Manzello, coordinator of the US's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch Program. When water gets to...
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Climate change is putting countless marine animals under pressure but jellyfish could actually benefit from warming ocean waters. A study by researchers at Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) looked at eight different species of Arctic jellyfish. They exposed them to rising water temperatures, sea ice retreat and other changing environmental conditions through computer models. Scientists found that by the second half of the century, seven of the eight species could expand their habitat polewards under these conditions. Simulations showed that the lion’s mane jellyfish - one of the biggest...
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Airlines have hit back against EU plans to monitor contrails from aircraft, claiming too little is known about their climate impact to regulate them. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it’s too soon to implement regulations as there are still “gaps” in scientific knowledge about their impact. New EU regulations will see airlines required to measure and report non-CO2 emissions from flights from January 2025. That would include contrails, nitrogen oxides and sulphur. Contrails or condensation trails are created when ice crystals form around tiny particles of carbon emitted ...
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