Tag Archives: Climate

Climate change is the global economy’s biggest long-term challenge but one the world is least prepared to tackle because of short-term problems led by a cost-of-living crisis, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in a report. The group’s Global Risks Report – released on Wednesday in advance of its annual …

Cars swallowed up by a sinkhole in a Los Angeles suburb. Sewage overflowing onto streets in the San Francisco Bay Area. And rising floodwaters prompting new evacuation orders for parts of Monterey County. The state of California on the United States west coast has continued to be throttled by what …

SACRAMENTO —  Facing a projected $22.5-billion budget deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday announced plans to reduce investments in the state’s move to zero-emission vehicles, make cuts to other climate change programs and delay funding for 20,000 new child-care slots as California transitions from a time …

The sun sets behind an oil drilling platform off the coast of Huntington Beach on Monday, Sep. 5, 2022. Luis Sinco | Los Angeles Times | Getty Images The world is not reducing emissions fast enough to mitigate the most deadly effects of climate change, so it’s time to study …

NAIROBI, Kenya, 10 January 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- Today pre-seed venture capital (VC) fund and accelerator Catalyst Fund announced a $2 million investment into 10 startups building solutions to improve the resilience of climate-vulnerable communities in Africa. This is the inaugural cohort of the new $30M VC fund of Catalyst Fund, anchored by financial …

Nomad Tsering Angchuk promises to stay put in his remote village in India’s Ladakh region. His two sons and most of his fellow villagers have migrated to a nearby urban settlement but Angchuk is determined to herd his flock of fine cashmere-producing goats in the treeless Kharnak village, a hauntingly …

The Earth’s ozone layer is on track to recover within four decades, a UN-backed panel of experts said on Monday. But the group also warned of the unintended impacts on the ozone layer of new technologies such as geoengineering. In a report published every four years on the progress of …

California faces a “parade of storms” over the following a number of weeks, on prime of latest deluges which have killed a minimum of 12 folks, precipitated flooding, knocked out energy and pressured evacuations and college closures up and down the coast. Given the Mediterranean local weather of the state’s coastal areas, moist …

The order, issued for the prosperous coastal enclave of Montecito, comes 5 years after mudslides killed 23 residents. Officers in Santa Barbara County, California, have issued quick evacuation order for the waterlogged metropolis of Montecito, as torrential rains and excessive winds proceed to batter the west coast of the USA. …

Houses are surrounded by floodwaters in Sohbat Pur metropolis, a district of Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province, Aug. 29, 2022. Credit score: AP Photograph/Zahid Hussain, File Commercial 35-year-old Noor and her household have been at house when their roof collapsed. Their small, mud-brick home had been battered by violent storms for …

New examine says big gap within the ozone layer that develops yearly over Antarctica heading in the right direction to be healed by 2066. Earth’s protecting ozone layer is therapeutic at a tempo that may absolutely mend the outlet over Antarctica in about 43 years, a United Nations report has …

The protest group Extinction Revolt (XR) has launched a press release with the clickbait headline “We Quit”. Dashing the hopes of local weather denialists in all places, the group shouldn’t be shutting up store (but), it’s merely altering techniques. XR is protecting its choices open, saying there’s “a controversial decision …