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UN forecasts La Nina could help lower temperatures this year
In many locations, especially in the tropics, La Nina produces the opposite climate impacts to El Nino, which heats up the surface of the oceans
Southern Africa ‘rapidly tracking towards climate disaster’
Global temperatures set to break records during next five years, warns World Meteorological Organisation
Climate crisis causes meltdown of Africa’s three mountain glaciers
Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori mountains are all retreating faster than the global mean
No country, rich or poor, is immune from the health effects of climate change
A changing climate threatens to undermine the past 50 years of gains in public health
Covid-19 puts green energy in a coma
The pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming
Covid puts green energy in a coma
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted governments’ plans to flatline the upward trajectory of global warming
Slash emissions now or miss 1.5°C goal, UN warns
The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C
UN: Climate will alter travel patterns
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…
UN: Ozone hole reappears over Antarctic
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…