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Organizaţia Mondială a Sănătăţii (OMS) a lansat, la Reykjavik, o nouă comisie paneuropeană dedicată combaterii efectelor schimbărilor climatice asupra sănătăţii. Iniţiativa vine în contextul intensificării crizelor climatice cu impact major...

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 Health Organization (WHO) has launched, in Reykjavik, a new pan-European commission dedicated to combating the effects of climate change on health. The initiative comes in the context of the intensification of climate crises with a...

The world has recorded another extremely hot month, with oceans and land continuing to reach "unusually high” temperatures, extending an alarming series of climate anomalies that has lasted for more than two years, according to data...

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...

A new scientific study warns of changing global rainfall patterns. Nearly 2 billion people could face significant changes in water availability if the average global temperature rises by 1.5°C, even temporarily, warns a new study published in the...

Monsoon rains have turned life upside down in a large part of India. At least 30 people have lost their lives in northeastern India due to floods and landslides caused by torrential monsoon rains that have hit the region in the past two days,...

In Covasna County, it has rained for two and a half months in the last week, according to Environment Minister Mircea Fechet. The affected areas were severely hit by floods, and the waters reached, in some cases, the roofs of houses. Almost 300...

Reporter: Ce v-a determinat să creaţi asociaţia Pur şi Simplu Verde, cui vă adresaţi şi cum promovaţi aspectele ce ţin de dezvoltare durabilă?

The European Union is on track to meet its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030, the European Commission announced today, following a recent assessment of national energy and climate plans. The estimated reduction is 54%...

Spain is preparing for an episode of exceptional heatwave, with temperatures that could exceed 40 degrees Celsius in the south of the country, the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET) warned. According to specialists, the values forecasted...

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....

EY a analizat primul val de rapoarte de sustenabilitate conforme cu CSRD, emise de un

The United Arab Emirates last week recorded a historic temperature record for May, reaching 50.4 degrees Celsius in the Al Shawamekh region of the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The information was transmitted by the National Center for Meteorology on the...

A study by researchers at Griffith University and published in the journal Biological Conservation shows that more than 220 critically endangered species in Australia are at risk of extinction. The main causes are habitat fragmentation and...

Nicuşor Dan officially began his term as president of Romania yesterday, after taking the oath of office in the reunified plenary session of Parliament. The solemn moment was blessed by His Beatitude Daniel, the patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox...

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin's recent proposal to eliminate cash entirely to combat drug trafficking has sparked a lot of backlash and controversy, according to BFMTV. "A lot of everyday fraud and crime, even criminal...

Although he officially lost the presidential elections of May 18, 2025 - a fact confirmed yesterday by the unanimous decision of the judges of the Constitutional Court of Romania who validated the election of Nicuşor Dan as president of the...

Torrents that have hit southeastern Australia have caused flash flooding and urgent evacuation orders, especially in the Hunter and Mid North Coast regions of New South Wales, the country's most populous state, Reuters reports. In just 24...

Sectorul agricol din Uniunea Europeană pierde anual 28,3 miliarde de euro, în medie, de pe urma fenomenelor meteo extreme, care sunt agravate de schimbările climatice, arată un studiu citat de Reuters. Doar o mică parte din pierderi este...

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...

The European Union's agricultural sector loses an average of 28.3 billion euros annually from extreme weather events, which are being exacerbated by climate change, according to a study cited by Reuters. Only a small part of the losses is...

A global trade war, volatility in financial markets and high debt levels are the three major risks facing the euro zone economy, according to the vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Reuters reports.

The United Kingdom is experiencing its driest spring since 1956, according to an alarming report published by the British Environment Agency. The severe lack of rainfall in the first months of 2025 has fueled fears of a possible drought in the...

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...

The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the pressure of digitalization have contributed to a significant decline in child well-being in many of the world's most developed countries, according to a recent analysis published by UNICEF...

The European Commission is expected to adopt tomorrow the third legislative package dedicated to the Common Agricultural Policy, the so-called Omnibus Agricultural Directive, through which it proposes increasing flexibility in accessing...

Investments considered ethical or socially responsible, promoted by many European pension funds, could indirectly support serious human rights abuses in Gaza and the West Bank, according to an investigation by the journalistic platform Follow the...

The White House is proposing the largest budget cut in the history of the American space agency. The budget proposal for NASA brings with it a reduction of approximately 24% compared to the previous year, informs AFP. This drastic cut, justified...

The Vega-C rocket was launched from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, and successfully placed the Biomass satellite into orbit, a flagship mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) dedicated to studying forests globally, AFP reports.

The summer of 2024 was the warmest recorded in Lapland in the last 2,000 years, according to data published by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The region, which includes northern Finland, Norway and Sweden, has recorded record temperatures,...

Romania's entry with land borders into the Schengen area, one of the most important diplomatic achievements of the beginning of the year, was quickly overshadowed by a series of events that strained the country's political, social and...

Construction materials producer TeraPlast Bistriţa has completed the acquisition of the majority stake, 51%, of Aquatica Experience Group (AEG), according to a company report published yesterday on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) website....

The Trump administration marks a radical change in food policies, eliminating all synthetic additives derived from petroleum.

A new global episode of coral bleaching, spanning more than two years, is wreaking havoc in the world's oceans, affecting approximately 84% of coral reefs - an absolute record in the history of documentation of these phenomena, according to...

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...

Unul dintre cele mai aride şi inospitaliere locuri de pe planetă a fost, în trecut, un paradis verde cu lacuri şi râuri. Schimbările climatice au dat totul peste cap în această zonă. Aceasta este concluzia unui nou studiu publicat în prestigiosul...

One of the most arid and inhospitable places on the planet was, in the past, a green paradise with lakes and rivers. Climate change has turned everything upside down in this area. This is the conclusion of a new study published in the prestigious...

Data centers around the world will double their electricity consumption by 2030, driven by the explosive growth in demand from the development of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA)....