Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean
A changing climate threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health
The pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming
Global warming will produce stay-at-home tourists over the next few decades, radically altering travel patterns and threatening jobs and businesses in tourism-dependent countries, according to a stark assessment by United Nations experts. They said concerns about weather extremes and calls to reduce emissions-heavy air travel would make long-haul flights less attractive.
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/ 12 September 2007
The hole in the protective ozone layer over the Antarctic is forming again, but should remain just below the record size it reached last year, a scientist at the United Nations’s weather agency said Wednesday. The gap in the ozone in the upper atmosphere, at altitudes of up to 25km, has reached a size of about 23-million square kilometres.