The EU Just Kicked Off Its Biggest Climate Experiment Yet
With little fanfare, the European Union has launched a huge climate experiment. On October 1, the EU kicked off the initial phase of a Europe-wide tax on carbon in imported …
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Eco-grief: How the climate crisis is impacting our mental health – National
8:37 Eco-grief: Coping with our climate crisis Something happened this summer, we all felt it. Day after day, new images emerged of the tropics and the Arctic on fire, devastating …
Japan climate group calls for ban on top power firm’s emission claims
A climate activist group is seeking to stop Japan’s biggest utility from using advertisements that include phrases such as “zero-emissions thermal power.” Kiko Network filed a petition calling on the …
Greenhouse Gas: US tackles climate-warming HFC industrial gases with new rules
WASHINGTON: The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced two new measures aimed at reducing climate-warming chemicals used in refrigerators and air conditioners that can help the US meet its …
Glacial lake floods: A growing, unpredictable climate risk
BANGKOK : Indian rescuers are searching for over 100 people missing in a flash flood caused by a glacial lake bursting its banks, a risk scientists warn is increasing with …
Millions of children are displaced due to extreme weather events. Climate change will make it worse
Storms, floods, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021, according to a United Nations report. More than 113 …
Biodiversity Loss: Climate change primary driver of amphibian decline: study
PARIS: Climate change has become the main factor driving amphibians towards extinction as they remained the most threatened vertebrates over the past two decades, according to research published on Wednesday.Frogs, …
Climate change draws great white sharks north, threatening ecosystem
Santa Cruz, California – There never used to be young great white sharks basking off the busy beaches of central California, but as climate change starts to bite, warmer waters …
People are moving into high flood zones, creating more risk
By Seth Borenstein | Associated Press Far more people are in harm’s way as they move into high flood zones across the globe, adding to an increase in watery disasters …
Amphibians are the most endangered animals on the planet
By Christina Larson | Associated Press The world’s frogs, salamanders, newts and other amphibians remain in serious trouble. A new global assessment has found that 41% of amphibian species that …