EU underprepared as climate change risks mount, draft report says 11/3/2024

Europe is in urgent need of stronger measures to prepare healthcare systems, farming and critical infrastructure for increasingly severe climate change, a draft report by the European Environment Agency (EEA) said. ...more

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon down 30% in February 11/3/2024

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell 30% in February from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government worked toward a pledge to end illegal deforestation by 2030. ...more

Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers major coral bleaching 11/3/2024

Australia's Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a major coral bleaching event, with the results consistent with patterns of heat stress that have built up over summer at the biologically diverse site, a government agency said on Friday. ...more

US natural gas pipeline accidents pose big, unreported climate threat 11/3/2024

Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas hissing into the air. ...more

Ocean temperature hit record high in February 2024, EU scientists say 8/3/2024

Ocean temperatures hit a record high in February, with the average global sea surface temperature at 21.06 degrees Celsius (69.91 degrees Fahrenheit), the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. ...more

Microscopic plastics could raise risk of stroke and heart attack, study says 8/3/2024

Doctors have warned of potentially life-threatening effects from plastic pollution after finding a substantially raised risk of stroke, heart attack and earlier death in people whose blood vessels were contaminated with microscopic plastics. ...more

Financial toll of climate crisis hitting women harder, UN says 8/3/2024

Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, research has shown, and the gap is likely to widen further. ...more

UK spends least among major European economies on low-carbon energy policy, study shows 8/3/2024

The UK spends less on low-carbon energy policy than any other major European economy, analysis has shown, despite evidence that such spending could lower household bills and increase economic growth more than the tax cuts the government has planned. ...more

First ice-free summer day forecast for Arctic Ocean by 2030s 8/3/2024

Sea ice could disappear during some summer days in the Arctic within the next few years, researchers have warned. ...more

Reuters Exclusive: World on brink of fourth mass coral reef bleaching event, NOAA says 7/3/2024

The world is on the verge of a fourth mass coral bleaching event which could see wide swathes of tropical reefs die, including parts of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said. ...more