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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,...

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...

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 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 team of scientists in China has found that an increase in methane emissions could have a surprising positive effect on future ozone layer recovery. The finding, which could influence government policies on climate change, was recently published...

The French government has launched its third national climate change adaptation plan, a long-awaited project that has already been considered insufficient by certain experts and environmental organizations. The document aims to prepare France for...

A study published in the journal Nature highlights a close historical link between periods of drought and political instability in China, demonstrating that climate change played an essential role in the rise and fall of great Chinese dynasties....

Nearly 200 countries missed the deadline to submit their new roadmaps for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to the UN under the Paris Agreement. Only 10 countries met the deadline, raising concerns about the global commitment to combating climate...

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,...

Un nou studiu publicat în revista Nature Reviews Earth and Environment avertizează că o creştere a temperaturii globale cu 2°C va duce la o triplare a suprafeţelor terestre unde căldura devine periculoasă chiar şi pentru persoanele sănătoase....

A new study published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth and Environment warns that a 2°C increase in global temperatures will triple the area of land where heat becomes dangerous even for healthy people. The affected areas could be the size of...

The interventions of European officials and civil servants in Brussels to censor the online environment, including content on social networks, were harshly criticized by MEP Gheorghe Piperea at the second edition of the "Make Europe Great...

Meteorologists announce that January 2025 is on track to become one of the warmest months in Moscow's history, with temperatures well above seasonal average. Records were broken earlier in the week, and on Wednesday the thermometers did not...

Ratarea unor obiective legate de schimbările climatice este confirmată de mai multe instituţii. Temperaturile medii globale au depăşit obiectivul de 1,5 grade Celsius stabilit la nivel internaţional în ultimii doi ani, a declarat un observator al...

The missing of some climate change targets is confirmed by several institutions. Global average temperatures have exceeded the internationally agreed 1.5 degrees Celsius target in the past two years, an EU monitor said, with the Earth recording...

Major disasters are wake-up calls from which people must draw the right conclusions. The fires in the US are a wake-up call related to the structure of large cities and climate change. The catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, exacerbated by the...

The warming of the entire planet is being confirmed from more and more places. Meteorologists say that the situation is alarming, especially since the upward trend in temperatures is maintained. The average temperature on the Earth's surface...

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...

Climate change is causing milder winters, with a greater number of days in which temperatures exceed 0 degrees Celsius, according to a report published by Climate Central and cited by AFP. The phenomenon has major implications for tourism,...

The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed, during a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), that the climate emergency is essentially an unprecedented health crisis. Climate...

The year 2025 could become one of the three warmest years ever recorded globally, according to the British agency Met Office. The estimates come after a year 2024 that could break all temperature records, exceeding for the first time 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...

Global tourism is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for 8.8% of total global emissions in 2019, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Between 2009 and 2019, tourism-related emissions grew by 3.5%...

What was expected, according to forecasts, will be officially recorded. 2024 will be the warmest year on record, and extraordinarily high temperatures are expected to persist at least into the first months of 2025, European Union scientists said...

Fenomenele naturale, incliusiv cele extreme, sunt înlănţuite. Creşterea record a temperaturii oceanelor a sporit viteza maximală a vânturilor care au însoţit toate uraganele formate în Atlantic în 2024, potrivit unui studiu confirmând astfel că...

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...

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...

Climate-driven migration is a major concern for governments around the world. The global climate crisis is no longer a distant future, but a present reality. Every year, millions of people are forced to flee their homes due to natural disasters...

The UN climate change conference, COP29, opened in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, with a call for global cooperation as developing countries seek hundreds of billions of dollars in assistance. The limited presence of G20 leaders and the...

The world is warming and almost everyone is feeling it. 2024 will almost certainly be the warmest year on record, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. The data was released ahead of the UN climate...

At a time when our planet is undergoing irreversible transformations, experts warn that it is vital that humanity takes concrete measures to protect biodiversity. Reports from the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services...

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...

Extreme natural phenomena cause huge damage. An example comes from the United States of America. More than two million homes were without power in Florida after Hurricane Milton left at least 16 dead and caused about $50 billion in damage. Even...

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...

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....

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...

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...