Tag: environment

The enchanting bond humans share with nature is a complex interplay of inherent tendencies and nurtured inclinations, as unveiled by researchers from the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. This intrinsic affinity for nature is a profoundly personal experience that should fundamentally influence urban planning, an insight highlighted by the research team.

As climate change continues to accelerate, the melting of ice and permafrost likely would release long-dormant pathogens trapped for thousands of years. This phenomenon poses a significant risk to global ecosystems and potentially to humanity itself. A recent global study conducted by Dr. Giovanni Strona from the European Commission Joint Research Centre and Professor Corey Bradshaw from Flinders University has shed light on the ecological dangers posed by the emergence of these ancient microbes.

At the recent G20 Environment and Climate Ministers meeting in India, crucial discussions aimed at addressing the global climate crisis ended without an agreement on key issues. The failure to reach consensus on peaking global emissions by 2025 and other ambitious climate action targets highlights the persistent divide between developed and developing nations. While expectations for stronger climate commitments were high, the meeting ended without a final communique on climate change.

Preliminary data reveals that the world recently experienced its hottest week on record, following the hottest June ever recorded. Rising temperatures have severe consequences for ecosystems and the environment, underscoring the far-reaching effects of human-induced climate change. The report also highlights record-low Antarctic sea ice extent and hydrological extremes, emphasizing the urgent need for climate action.

Earth lost a significant area of carbon-absorbing rainforests, with an area larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands destroyed, primarily for cattle ranching and commodity crops. This information comes from an analysis of satellite data released by the World Resources Institute.

The Bonn Climate Change Conference on June 15 concluded, making steady progress on issues of critical importance, including the global stock-take, climate finance, loss and damage, and adaptation, among many others.

The effect of human activity on Earth would result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, according to a group of physicists.

Groundwater is vital to economic activity and growth, food security, but the sustainability of this critical resource is at risk in many regions, according to a latest World Bank Report.

The temperature is on track to rise 2.7 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels by 2100, pushing more than two billion people (22 percent) well outside the climate comfort zone, said scientists in Nature Sustainability.

Studies from the first two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic indicate that the influence of meteorology and air quality on disease transmission have been secondary compared to the influence of non-pharmaceutical interventions, vaccination campaigns, changing immunity profiles, introduction of variants, and behavioural dynamics. This comes up in World Meteorological Organization’s COVID-19 final report.