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A record heat wave caused the Greenland ice sheet to melt 17 times faster than the historical average between May 15 and 21, 2025, warns the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA), in a new report cited by AFP. The extreme event also...

The world is approaching a turning point in protecting the oceans: the international treaty on the high seas, adopted in 2023, is about to become a legal reality. The announcement was made by French President Emmanuel Macron at the opening of the...

The global average temperature risks exceeding the critical threshold of +1.5°C in the next five years, warns a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), carried out in collaboration with the Met Office in the United Kingdom....

A study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment warns that sea levels will continue to rise dangerously, testing humanity's resilience until the end of the century and beyond, even in the optimistic scenario in which...

For the first time in two decades, the Antarctic ice sheet has seen a significant increase in ice mass, according to a recent study led by researchers at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. The study, published in the journal Science China...

Europe faced the most extensive floods in the last decade in 2024, with 30% of the continent's hydrographic network affected. According to a joint report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization...

The level of the sea surface of the globe rose more than expected in 2024, the warmest year ever recorded on Earth, according to an analysis published by NASA. "Last year's increase was caused by unusual warming of the oceans, combined...

Strengthening national security and the economy are the main arguments invoked by President-elect Donald Trump, in a press conference held at the Mar-a-Lago residence, for bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under US control, according to the...

The domino effect is clearly visible in nature. The record-breaking Antarctic ice loss in 2023 has led to an increase in storms over the ice-free Southern Ocean, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The work by Simon Josey, of...

A team of NASA scientists recently mapped Camp Century, an abandoned US base buried under 30 meters of ice in Greenland. The discovery, made with the help of modern radar detection technologies, brings to the fore the secrets of this Cold War-era...

Fie că vrem să recunoaştem sau nu, lucrurile se schimbă, nu mereu în bine, în jurul nostru. Peste o mie de gheţari din Tadjikistan au dispărut în cursul a trei decenii, a avertizat ministrul Energiei din această republică situată în Asia...

Whether we want to admit it or not, things are changing, not always for the better, around us. Over a thousand glaciers in Tajikistan have disappeared in the past three decades, the energy minister of this Central Asian republic warned on the...

The intense droughts and extreme floods that are becoming more and more frequent around the globe are a "prelude" to future developments in the context of climate change, the United Nations (UN) warned in a recent report, sent by AFP....

Gheţarii din Elveţia au cunoscut anul acesta o topire accelerată, depăşind media ultimilor ani, potrivit unui raport al organizaţiei GLAMOS (Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland). Această tendinţă continuă să atragă atenţia oamenilor de ştiinţă şi a...

The glaciers in Switzerland experienced an accelerated melting this year, exceeding the average of recent years, according to a report by the organization GLAMOS (Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland). This trend continues to draw the attention of...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

Unpleasant surprises are becoming more frequent in climate matters. Specialists began to be surprised by certain events that are unfolding at a much higher speed than would have been anticipated. The recent retreat of the Andes glaciers is an...

The days are getting longer, scientists say. Imperceptible to humans, but the change is not negligible. Climate change, which causes the melting of the polar ice caps, slows the Earth's rotation very slightly, which increases the length of...

Climate change also brings with it a procession of natural disasters. Violent storms are more and more present, there are areas of the globe that are more and more affected by them. The El Nino phenomenon and climate change caused by human...

Asia was in 2023 "the region of the world most affected by catastrophes" related to meteorological conditions, with floods and storms causing the most victims and the greatest economic losses during the past year, reveals a UN report....

Cleanliness in the workplace is very important. For climbers this goal is more difficult to achieve, the special working conditions make most activities difficult. The Nepalese army has begun a campaign to collect tons of garbage and at least...

Dispariţia lentă a gheţarilor este însoţită de un întreg alai de probleme mai mari sau mai mici. Topirea calotei glaciare din Groenlanda (cauzată în principal de încălzirea globală) este la originea creşterii nivelului solului imensei insule...

The slow disappearance of glaciers is accompanied by a whole procession of bigger and smaller problems. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet (mainly caused by global warming) is at the origin of the rise in the ground level of the huge arctic...

The challenges related to climate change are increasing, and the transformations are evident. It is clear that without concrete measures, the losses will be enormous. The Greenland ice sheet lost an area of 5,091 square kilometers between 1985...

Meteorological records fell one after another throughout 2023, and Europe was no exception. Last year was the hottest in the history of meteorological recordings, with a "remarkable" advancement, probably the warmest in the last 100,000...

A volcano erupted earlier this week on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland, spewing lava and smoke across an extensive area after weeks of intense seismic activity.

Schimbările climatice afectează din plin gheţarii. Dispariţia acestora antrenează o sumă de multe alte probleme. Cifrele la nivel global sunt îngrijorătoare, dar când sunt prezentate punctual se înţelege mai exact efectele dezastrului. Un exemplu...

Climate change affects the glaciers. Their disappearance leads to a number of other problems. The figures at the global level are worrying, but when they are presented punctually, the effects of the disaster are more precisely understood. An...

Meteorologists are noting record after record when it comes to temperatures. October 2023 has been declared the "warmest October ever recorded worldwide," continuing a series of monthly records that began in June, as announced by the...

Climate-related alarm signals are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could add more than one meter to sea-level rise if global climate goals are not met. According to a new study published in the...

Nature has been delivering some concerning news lately. A new example: Antarctica's ice shelves have shrunk by 40%, with almost half of them showing "no signs of recovery," according to scientists who attribute these changes to...

Bad news related to the climate is coming at an alarming rate. There isn't a week that goes by without specialists announcing another "catastrophe." Swiss glaciers have melted in the past two years as much as they did between 1960 and...

Sportivii din ţara noastră sunt foarte apreciaţi în competiţiile de ultramaraton, unde obţin tot mai des rezultate notabile. Claudiu Beleţoiu a reuşit o clasare pe podium în prima cursă de anduranţă din La Gomera, o insulă din Arhipelagul...

The world is intensely preparing for a water crisis, the most important resource for human life. The signs, on a continental and global level, that there is a water problem are increasingly clear.

The financial crisis will sound like a good joke compared to what will happen once the crisis of drinkable water begins. Experts claim that this issue will arise in 2025, as the resources of drinkable water available will be increasingly...