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La Niña's Return Could Reduce Extreme Heat by 2024

par This Is Beirut, 07/03 11:19 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Climate Change Copernicus Global warming La Nina

Global temperature records for the past nine months are expected to persist for a few more weeks. But the potential rapid return of the 'La Niña' weather phenomenon "could reduce the risk" of 2024 beating 2023's absolute heat record, according to specialists. The rapid return of the La Niña weather phenomenon "may actually decrease" the risk ...

The Negative Leap Second, Climate Change, and Timekeeping

par Alissar Boulos, 30/03 13:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Climate Change daylight saving time

On Sunday, March 31st, just before dawn, most of the planet will set its clocks forward by one hour in what is known as daylight saving time (DST). However, another issue has sprung forward, with climate change affecting Earth’s rotation and with it, timekeeping. Weirdly, global warming could be helping to delay history’s first “negative ...

G7 Meets in Italy for Climate Talks as Members Miss Key Targets

par This Is Beirut, 29/04 11:59 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The G7 states will meet in Turin, Italy on Monday, for the first key climate talks since COP28 as a new report shows all G7 members are missing their climate targets. G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin on Monday, with experts urging the highly industrialized countries to use their political clout, wealth and ...

Progress on Plastic Pollution Treaty, but Without Key Commitment

par This Is Beirut, 30/04 12:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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UN negotiations to tackle plastic pollution made progress on Tuesday, but without instituting plastic production limits, which environmental groups claim are key. A fourth and penultimate round of UN-led negotiations to solve global plastic pollution wrapped up in Ottawa early on Tuesday with a world-first pact, said to be within reach by year's ...

Nations Falling Short of UN Renewable Goals Says IEA

par This Is Beirut, 04/06 11:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Nations are falling short of the goal agreed at UN climate talks to triple renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of efforts to curb global warming, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. An IEA analysis of policies, plans and estimates from nearly 150 countries found that they could reach 8,000 gigawatts of renewable power capacity in ...

A Hotter Hajj as Climate Change May Outpace Mitigation Efforts

par This Is Beirut, 13/06 19:01 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Climate Change hajj Heat Deaths Mecca Saudi Arabia

From misting systems to heat-reflective road coverings, Saudi officials are trying to aid hajj pilgrims in coping with heat, but scientists caution that climate change may outpace these efforts. The annual pilgrimage, one of the world's largest religious gatherings, coincides again this year with the hot Saudi summer, with officials predicting ...

War and Climate Change Excacerbate Sudan's Water Crisis

par This Is Beirut, 16/06 09:49 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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As the Sudanese civil war rages unabated, man-made devastation and the changing climate are exacerbating a dangerous water crisis. War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan to the shores of a water crisis. In the blistering sun, as temperatures climb past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), Issa's family -- along ...

Diplomats Say at Least 600 Pilgrims Died During Hajj

par This Is Beirut, 19/06 10:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Climate Change hajj Heat Deaths Mecca Saudi Arabia

An Arab diplomat told AFP on Wednesday that at least 600 Egyptians died during the hajj pilgrimage, citing searing heat that reached 51.8 degrees Celsius (125 degrees Fahrenheit) on Monday. “All of them (the Egyptians) died because of heat,” except for one who sustained fatal injuries during a minor crowd crush, one of the diplomats said, ...

2024 on Track to Be the Hottest Year on Record

par This Is Beirut, 08/08 14:04 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Climate Change EU EU Climate Monitor Heatwave

It is "increasingly likely" 2024 will be the hottest year on record, despite July ending a 13-month streak of monthly temperature records, the EU's climate monitor said Thursday. The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said last month was the second warmest on record books going back to 1940, only slightly cooler than July 2023. Between June ...

Australia Approves Plans for World's Largest Solar Farm

par This Is Beirut, 21/08 11:41 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Australia approved on Wednesday plans for a massive solar and battery farm that would export energy to Singapore, a project billed as the "largest solar precinct in the world." Authorities announced environmental approvals for SunCable's US$24 billion project in Australia's remote north that is slated to power three million homes. The project, ...

Brazil Wages 'War' on Wildfires

par This Is Beirut, 26/08 11:09 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Brazil Climate Change Sao Paulo Wildfires

Brazil was deploying military aircraft as part of a "war" against wildfires ravaging the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, with authorities warning on Sunday that arsonists were setting blazes. Following a crisis meeting of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's cabinet, Environment Minister Marina Silva announced a "war against the fire" and said ...

June-August 2024 Were Hottest Ever Recorded

par This Is Beirut, 06/09 11:46 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Climate Change Copernicus Global warming Heatwave

The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures ever recorded, beating last year's record and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever, the European Union's climate monitor said on Friday. The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by ...

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