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Global Warming Causes The First 12-Month Period Above 1.5C

According to the European Union's climate change monitoring service, the world just had its warmest January on record, making it the first 12-month period in which average temperatures were more than 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial periods. This was announced on Thursday.   Due to a...

2023 Was The Second-Warmest Year Ever For The UK

The national weather service of the United Kingdom, Met Office, announced that 2023 was the second-warmest year on record for Britain. This finding highlights the increasing influence of human-caused climate change on the nation's average temperatures.   The mean temperature of 9.97 degrees...

Fury And Dissatisfaction As The COP28 Draft Language Leaves Out The Phase-Out Of Fossil Fuels

On the last day of the global conference, the proposed language for a COP28 climate agreement that does not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels has come under heavy fire from influential figures, exposing deep divisions.   The United Arab Emirates' leadership of the climate summit...

Brazil Joins The Global Climate Accord To Increase Renewable Energy Usage By Three Folds

Brazil has joined a potential agreement supported by the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the European Union to treble the amount of renewable energy produced globally by 2030 and move away from coal use, the country's Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.   The largest nation in...

The Rise of India and the Decarbonisation of its Economy

Ranked 14th in the world for gas consumption in 2022, with a growing dependence on imports, India plans to further increase its use of LNG. This appetite stems from both the economic development of the world's largest demographic power and from its far reaching ambitions with regards to the energy...

Temperatures Are Rising As The El Nino Weather Trend Is Back

After the El Nino weather pattern erupted in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years on Tuesday, the World Meteorological Organisation predicted that temperatures will spike in many regions of the world.   El Nino, a rise in water surface temperatures in the eastern and...

UN Food Agency Informs Hike In Global Food Prices - A First Time In Nine Months

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization's world price index climbed in April for the first time in a year, although it is still 20% lower than a record high set in March 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.   The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) price index, which tracks...

IMF's Chief Says Ukraine Is Just "Weeks" Away From Receiving Full Support Program

According to Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the IMF, a comprehensive program of support for Ukraine is still several weeks away from being finalized.   This comes hours after the IMF announced on Friday that it had reached an agreement with Ukrainian authorities at the staff...

UN Concerned About Not Much Time Being Left With Surge In Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse gas concentrations rose at above-average rates to new highs last year, according to the United Nations weather agency, which warned that time is running out for people to make the transformational changes required to limit global temperature rises.   The World Meteorological...

With Extensive New Export Regulations, US Hopes To Cripple China's Chip Industry

The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. equipment, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing's technological and military advances.  ...

Experts Urge WHO And Governments To Take Stronger Action Against Monkeypox

A huge monkeypox outbreak has expanded to at least 20 nations, prompting some notable infectious disease experts to call for speedier action from global health authorities to contain it.   They argue that governments and the World Health Organization should not repeat the COVID-19 pandemic's...

Many More Cases Of Monkeypox Likely To Emerge Worldwide, Expects WHO

The World Health Organization expects to find more instances of monkeypox when surveillance is expanded in places where the disease is uncommon.   According to the United Nations, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported from 12 non-endemic member states as...
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