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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...

The European Commission, the European Parliament and the member states of the European Union have reached a compromise on stricter legislation against microplastic pollution, according to AFP. The new regulation aims in particular to combat the...

Europe records hottest March on record as climate crisis deepens. The global heatwave continues: March this year broke all-time temperature records, extending a continuous warming streak that has lasted since last summer, according to the...

The global environmental community is issuing an urgent appeal to protect the marine environment ahead of the UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3). More than 100 environmental groups are calling for an immediate ban on ocean oil and gas exploration,...

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...

A new study confirms that the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta has an amazing ability to learn and memorize the coordinates of the Earth's magnetic field, using them as a veritable natural GPS to navigate to their favorite nesting and...

January 2025 was declared the warmest January ever measured globally, according to data published by the European observatory Copernicus. The previous record, set in January 2024, was surpassed, despite the end of the El Niño phenomenon,...

Oceanele planetei au atins în 2024 cele mai ridicate temperaturi înregistrate vreodată, conform unui studiu publicat recent şi citat de agenţia DPA. Recordurile se aplică atât temperaturilor de suprafaţă, cât şi căldurii stocate până la adâncimi...

The planet's oceans reached the highest temperatures ever recorded in 2024, according to a recently published study cited by the DPA agency. The records apply to both surface temperatures and heat stored down to depths of 2,000 meters,...

Trouble never comes alone, not even in climate issues. The ways in which people consume and feed themselves are causing "interconnected" crises that affect biodiversity, climate and health, threatening the survival of essential ecosystems...

Plastic pollution has reached unprecedented levels. Four global policies could eliminate almost all plastic pollution on Earth, according to a study conducted with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) by researchers at the University of...

Natural phenomena, including extreme ones, are linked. Record-breaking ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds that accompanied all hurricanes formed in the Atlantic in 2024, according to a study, thus confirming that global warming...

Although the Western media and certain experts have suggested that Ukraine, with the support of Western weaponry, has significantly undermined the capabilities of the Black Sea Fleet, Nikolai Patrushev, president of the Maritime College of the...

In 2023, greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new records, a phenomenon that, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), will lead to inevitable increases in global temperatures in the coming years. The main...

The regional assembly of the Azores Islands, a Portuguese archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean, has approved the creation of the largest marine protected area in the North Atlantic. This decision places the Azores at the forefront of global...

Any warming of the planet beyond the 1.5°C threshold, even temporarily, could cause "irreversible consequences" for the future of humanity, warns a large study published in the journal Nature. The research, carried out over three years by...

Australia will quadruple the area of the vast marine protected area around Heard and McDonald islands, located near Antarctica, where penguins, seals and whales live, the government announced on Tuesday, reports AFP. This measure represents a...

Încălzirea oceanelor, considerată un indicator crucial al schimbărilor climatice, a înregistrat o accelerare semnificativă începând din 2005, arată un nou raport al observatorului european Copernicus. Mai mult de o cincime din suprafaţa oceanelor...

Ocean warming, considered a crucial indicator of climate change, has accelerated significantly since 2005, a new report from Europe's Copernicus Observatory shows. More than a fifth of the world's ocean surface has been affected by...

Plastic pollution continues to threaten aquatic environments at an alarming rate, with millions of tonnes of waste ending up in rivers and oceans every year. According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, raised the alarm about the major problems facing the planet. Antonio Guterres has issued a global climate "SOS". The Pacific Islands Summit organized by the United Nations...

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...

Confirmation of the weather records set this hot summer is coming from several directions. Last month was the hottest July on record and marked the 14th consecutive monthly temperature record, according to a US agency. 2024 currently has a 77%...

Changes in temperature greatly influence life on this planet. The water temperature in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached its highest level in 400 years in the last decade, according to a study. Water temperatures have risen every...

Good news also comes from the "front" where the fight against pollution is taking place. The amount of dust in the atmosphere decreased slightly in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced, warning that poor...

States have decided to make peace with nature. A first agreement was initialed, 26 countries signed a "declaration of peace with the ocean" in Costa Rica at the end of the "Immersed in change" forum, one year before the UN...

Good intentions in the field of nature protection are only partially materialized to the end. Only a third of the world's marine protected areas (MPAs) are subject to a high or full level of protection to conserve biodiversity and increase...

Vieţuitoarele marine au tot mai multe probleme din cauza schimbăriilor climatice şi a valului de probleme pe care le antrenează. Mai multe colonii de pinguini imperiali au asistat din nou, în sezonul 2023, la moartea puilor ca urmare a topirii în...

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...

Climate change is felt by people and confirmed by experts. In 2023, Europe registered a record number of days in which the heat felt by the human body was "extreme", due to a temperature above 35°C-40°C, whose effect on the body was...

Life in the oceans is not peaceful at all, being also affected by climate change. The world is facing a massive coral bleaching episode due to record ocean temperatures, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned on...

Environmentally unthinkable things 50-100 years ago may soon become the norm. A team of researchers has calculated that the Arctic could soon be ice-free in September for the first time since records began, and this could happen this year....

Temperature records are falling at an alarming rate. February 2024 was the warmest month ever recorded worldwide, thus joining a series of nine consecutive monthly records, with temperatures well above normal in Europe, the European Copernicus...

The changes the climate is going through are not favorable to life. More than a fifth of the world's migratory species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and human encroachment, according to the United Nations' first report...

The widespread pollution of the world's waters by millions of tons of waste has flooded the oceans with microplastics. These are the result of the physical and chemical degradation of objects, a process that lasts hundreds of years. The...

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...

The environment is in an extremely delicate balance, where even the slightest change can cause a major disaster. A team of Franco-Swiss researchers has, for the first time, simulated the entire greenhouse effect process that can transform a...

Humanity is facing increasingly numerous threats, many of which are self-inflicted, and nature seems less willing to aid humans. Experts argue that we have reached a point of no return, and if humanity does not realize the gravity of 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...

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...