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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 Great Barrier Reef may survive rising sea levels, but not in the presence of climate stress and pollution, suggests a new study published by the University of Sydney. A look into the geological past offers worrying prospects for the future of...

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...

Pentru prima dată în ultimele două decenii, calota glaciară antarctică a înregistrat o creştere semnificativă a masei de gheaţă, potrivit unui studiu recent coordonat de cercetători de la Universitatea Tongji din Shanghai, China. Studiul,...

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 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 Arctic, a region particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, is emitting more carbon dioxide (CO2) than it stores, according to a US report recently published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This...

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...

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...

The first quarter of the 21st century brought great transformations and challenges for humanity. Rapid technological progress, climate change, geopolitical tensions, and social and cultural revolutions have created a context in which collective...

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...

Europe was hit, especially in the central part, by a series of violent storms and torrential rains. They fell on Switzerland, France, Germany and Italy and resulted in at least 7 deaths, according to the first balance published by the local...

Hell is paved with good intentions. I have a growing impression that we are no longer satisfied with just paving, we also put curbs.

Millions of people who rely on melting Himalayan snow for their water supply face a "very serious" risk of water shortages this year due to reduced snowfall. In this region, snowmelt feeds about a quarter of the total flow of 12 major...

Marine life is in more and more trouble because of climate change and the wave of problems it brings. Several colonies of emperor penguins have again witnessed, in the 2023 season, the death of chicks as a result of the record melting of the...

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....

The only Western journalist who deigned to interview Vladimir Putin in the past two years is Tucker Carlson, claims Tucker Carlson on his blog tuckercarlson.com, in preparation for airing the interview scheduled for thursday night into friday:...

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...

Climate change disproportionately affects poorer nations. Celeste Saulo (Argentina), the first woman appointed to lead the UN agency for meteorology and climate, aims to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable countries facing the...

Heat is making its presence felt even in the cold regions of the globe. The summer of 2023 has been the warmest ever recorded in the Arctic, according to a key American report that paints an alarming picture of this region, highly exposed to the...

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 change is causing significant concern. The planet is genuinely threatened, say more and more people, but the statement holds more weight when it comes from experts. A new report from the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the...

Damage to nature has been done, claim more and more experts. The West Antarctic ice sheet will continue to melt in this century, no matter how much humanity reduces emissions of gases causing our planet's warming, according to researchers...

Răul a fost făcut în ceea ce priveşte natura, susţin tot mai mulţi specialişti. Calota glaciară din vestul Antarcticii va continua să se topească în acest secol indiferent de cât de mult îşi va reduce omenirea emisiile de gaze care cauzează...

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...

Veştile proaste legate de climă se succed cu o viteză demnă de o cauză bună. Nu este săptămână în care specialiştii să nu mai anunţe o "catastrofă". Gheţarii elveţieni s-au topit în ultimii doi ani cât între 1960 şi 1990, ca urmare a...

Imaginile ceremoniei de instalare a noii administraţii Biden. Scena tradiţională, la poalele Capitoliului. Un balet protocolar a cărui precizie, atît a planificării, cît şi a execuţiei, echivalează cu frumuseţea celor mai subtile mecanisme de...