Meru: Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting the huge ice blocks off of Africa’s second-highest mountain. For nearly 25 years, the affable 50-year-old guide has been taking hikers to the peaks of Mount Kenya, nearly 5,000 metres … Read more
Huaraz (Peru): In the high Andes of northern Peru, the morning sun rises over glaciers in the Cordillera Blanca mountains that loom above the city of Huaraz, an awe-inspiring sight tainted by fears of a growing threat of meltwater floods. The glaciers are at the centre of a landmark global case that will test the … Read more
Singapore: The weather in some of the world’s most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned by the charity WaterAid showed on Wednesday. South and Southeast Asia face the strongest wetting trends, while Europe, the Middle East … Read more
Scientists have issued a warning that the world’s strongest ocean current is slowing down due to climate change which could have serious implications such as sea level rise and ocean warming. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), a clockwise current more than four times stronger than the Gulf Stream, plays a pivotal part in the overall … Read more
This could threaten winter-sown crops such as wheat, chickpea and rapeseed. India is expected to experience above-average temperatures in March across most regions of the country following a warmer February, the weather office said on Friday, which could threaten winter-sown crops such as wheat, chickpea and rapeseed. Both maximum and minimum temperatures in most parts … Read more
A recent study has revealed that climate change is severely impacting cacao production in West Africa, threatening the global chocolate supply. The West African region, responsible for about 70 per cent of the world’s cacao production, has experienced unusually high temperatures, droughts, diseases, and unpredictable rainfall in recent years. These environmental stresses have devastated harvests, … Read more
Beijing, China: China last year began construction on projects with the greatest combined coal power capacity since 2015, jeopardising the country’s goal to peak carbon emissions by 2030, according to a report published Thursday. The world’s second-largest economy is the biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change, but also a renewable energy … Read more
SINGAPORE — China started construction on 94.5 gigawatts of coal-fired power in 2024, the highest volume of new builds since 2015, hampering the country’s transition away from fossil fuels, researchers said in a report published on Thursday. The world’s biggest coal consumer and emitter of climate-warming greenhouse gases had vowed to “strictly control” coal power … Read more
Paris: Climate change drove weeks of crop-withering temperatures last year in the West African countries that underpin the world’s chocolate supply, hitting harvests and likely further stoking record prices, researchers said Wednesday. Farmers in the region — which account for some 70 percent of global cacao production — have struggled with heat, disease and unusual … Read more
Climate change is rapidly altering the Arctic region, creating environmental danger, economic opportunity and geopolitical tension as the world’s major powers scramble to control newly accessible shipping lanes and resource deposits.
(Bloomberg) — The UK will spend £2.65 billion ($3.31 billion) on flood defenses to protect homes from the growing risks posed by climate-fueled storms and rainfall, according to a government announcement on Tuesday. The investment on upgrading and repairing flood infrastructure will be spent by March next year on projects including improved tidal barriers and river and sea … Read more
Washington: Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable drought conditions and powerful Santa Ana winds, according to an analysis published Tuesday. The study, conducted by dozens of researchers, concluded that the fire-prone conditions fueling the blazes were approximately … Read more