Climate Change

If there were any remaining doubts about the reality and human cost of climate change, this year’s extreme hurricane and cyclone season has provided stark evidence. Across multiple regions, storms of unprecedented strength have devastated…
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The planet has entered “uncharted territory” as the climate and environmental crisis deepens, with future global warming likely to surpass earlier United Nations projections, according to a new UN report released on December 9, 2025.…
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A decade after the landmark Paris Climate Agreement was signed in December 2015, the world remains far from meeting its central objective of limiting global warming, even as the impacts of climate change intensify across continents.…
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The European Union and the European Parliament have amended the EU Climate Law to include a legally binding goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 90% by 2040, compared to 1990 levels. The revised framework also allows the use…
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New research shows that climate change amplified the devastating floods that killed more than 1,600 people across South and Southeast Asia last November. A series of three tropical cyclones, stretching from Sri Lanka to Indonesia, caused at…
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The world must urgently adopt a new, integrated approach to tackle climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and pollution—four interlinked crises threatening global health and stability—according to a major UN report released…
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Coastal cities across the world have been issued a stark warning: a dangerous combination of extreme weather, rising sea levels and rapidly sinking land could drastically worsen flooding by the end of this century. The alert comes from a…
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Forty metres below the surface of the Ligurian Sea lies one of Italy’s best-preserved World War II shipwrecks — the Equa, a cannon-equipped submarine chaser that sank in 1944 after being accidentally rammed by a German vessel. No lives were…
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Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have triggered a cascade of events that eventually delivered the Black Death — the deadliest pandemic in recorded history — to medieval Europe, according to new research. The bubonic plague…
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Across India, rivers are drying up weeks ahead of their traditional low-flow periods, signaling a growing water crisis. From stretches of the Ganga basin to smaller rivers in the central and northern plains, water levels are dipping earlier…
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