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Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study 16/8/2024
Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds. ...more
China firm claims world's fastest-charging EV battery 16/8/2024
China firm claims world's fastest-charging EV battery Chinese car maker Zeekr says its new electric vehicle (EV) batteries charge faster than any of its rivals, including industry leaders Tesla and BYD. ...more
How wildfires are changing face of the Mediterranean landscape 15/8/2024
How wildfires are changing face of the Mediterranean landscape The Mediterranean is a landscape that's always been shaped by fire. But now climate change is supercharging heatwaves and wildfires, the region is at risk of long-term change to its ecosystems. ...more
Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s 15/8/2024
Half a billion children live in areas with twice as many very hot days as in 1960s Almost half a billion children are growing up in parts of the world where there are at least twice the number of extremely hot days every year compared with six decades ago, analysis by Unicef has found. ...more
Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions 15/8/2024
Canada’s 2023 wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of blaze emissions Canada’s “record-shattering” wildfires last year produced nearly as much greenhouse gas emissions in one season as would be expected over a decade of fires in normal circumstances, data has shown. ...more
Toyota hybrid among cars found to guzzle more petrol than advertised, study finds 15/8/2024
Toyota hybrid among cars found to guzzle more petrol than advertised, study finds Australians are buying cars that consume more petrol than the fuel efficiencies marketed to them, repeated investigations have found, while many vehicles also emit more toxic fumes than manufacturers advertise. ...more
Urban birds are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds 15/8/2024
Urban birds are teeming with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, study finds Urban ducks and crows might offer us a connection to nature, but scientists have found wild birds that live near humans are more likely to harbour bacteria resistant to important antibiotics. ...more
The Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi Reports Rare Bird Sighting on Qarnain Island 14/8/2024
The Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi Reports Rare Bird Sighting on Qarnain Island The Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi (EAD) recently spotted a red-footed booby, a rare member of the booby family, during periodic monitoring operations on Qarnain Island in the Arabian Gulf region. Considered one of the rarest and smallest booby species, it is widespread on the coasts and islands of tropical regions, yet remains very rare in the region, due to the lack of resident groups in the country. ...more
More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says 14/8/2024
More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says More than 47,000 people died in Europe due to scorching temperatures in 2023, with countries in the region's south hit the hardest, according to a report by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) published on Monday. ...more
Carbon offset setback risks corporate backtrack on climate goals 14/8/2024
Carbon offset setback risks corporate backtrack on climate goals Stalled efforts to expand companies' use of carbon credits to offset greenhouse-gas emissions are raising the prospect that some will backtrack or abandon targets to shrink their carbon footprint. ...more
 
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