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Any warming of the planet beyond the 1.5°C threshold, even temporarily, could cause "irreversible consequences" for the future of humanity, warns a large study published in the journal Nature. The research, carried out over three years by...

Australia will quadruple the area of the vast marine protected area around Heard and McDonald islands, located near Antarctica, where penguins, seals and whales live, the government announced on Tuesday, reports AFP. This measure represents a...

Încălzirea oceanelor, considerată un indicator crucial al schimbărilor climatice, a înregistrat o accelerare semnificativă începând din 2005, arată un nou raport al observatorului european Copernicus. Mai mult de o cincime din suprafaţa oceanelor...

Ocean warming, considered a crucial indicator of climate change, has accelerated significantly since 2005, a new report from Europe's Copernicus Observatory shows. More than a fifth of the world's ocean surface has been affected by...

Plastic pollution continues to threaten aquatic environments at an alarming rate, with millions of tonnes of waste ending up in rivers and oceans every year. According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, raised the alarm about the major problems facing the planet. Antonio Guterres has issued a global climate "SOS". The Pacific Islands Summit organized by the United Nations...

Our country has faced a new wave of heat waves in recent days. This is the first red heat code (the tenth this summer) ever issued in August in Romania, the director of the National Meteorological Administration, Elena Mateescu, said. Entire...

Confirmation of the weather records set this hot summer is coming from several directions. Last month was the hottest July on record and marked the 14th consecutive monthly temperature record, according to a US agency. 2024 currently has a 77%...

Changes in temperature greatly influence life on this planet. The water temperature in Australia's Great Barrier Reef has reached its highest level in 400 years in the last decade, according to a study. Water temperatures have risen every...

Good news also comes from the "front" where the fight against pollution is taking place. The amount of dust in the atmosphere decreased slightly in 2023, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced, warning that poor...

States have decided to make peace with nature. A first agreement was initialed, 26 countries signed a "declaration of peace with the ocean" in Costa Rica at the end of the "Immersed in change" forum, one year before the UN...

Good intentions in the field of nature protection are only partially materialized to the end. Only a third of the world's marine protected areas (MPAs) are subject to a high or full level of protection to conserve biodiversity and increase...

Vieţuitoarele marine au tot mai multe probleme din cauza schimbăriilor climatice şi a valului de probleme pe care le antrenează. Mai multe colonii de pinguini imperiali au asistat din nou, în sezonul 2023, la moartea puilor ca urmare a topirii în...

Marine life is in more and more trouble because of climate change and the wave of problems it brings. Several colonies of emperor penguins have again witnessed, in the 2023 season, the death of chicks as a result of the record melting of the...

Climate change is felt by people and confirmed by experts. In 2023, Europe registered a record number of days in which the heat felt by the human body was "extreme", due to a temperature above 35°C-40°C, whose effect on the body was...

Life in the oceans is not peaceful at all, being also affected by climate change. The world is facing a massive coral bleaching episode due to record ocean temperatures, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned on...

Environmentally unthinkable things 50-100 years ago may soon become the norm. A team of researchers has calculated that the Arctic could soon be ice-free in September for the first time since records began, and this could happen this year....

Temperature records are falling at an alarming rate. February 2024 was the warmest month ever recorded worldwide, thus joining a series of nine consecutive monthly records, with temperatures well above normal in Europe, the European Copernicus...

The changes the climate is going through are not favorable to life. More than a fifth of the world's migratory species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and human encroachment, according to the United Nations' first report...

The widespread pollution of the world's waters by millions of tons of waste has flooded the oceans with microplastics. These are the result of the physical and chemical degradation of objects, a process that lasts hundreds of years. The...

Meteorological records fell one after another throughout 2023, and Europe was no exception. Last year was the hottest in the history of meteorological recordings, with a "remarkable" advancement, probably the warmest in the last 100,000...

The environment is in an extremely delicate balance, where even the slightest change can cause a major disaster. A team of Franco-Swiss researchers has, for the first time, simulated the entire greenhouse effect process that can transform a...

Humanity is facing increasingly numerous threats, many of which are self-inflicted, and nature seems less willing to aid humans. Experts argue that we have reached a point of no return, and if humanity does not realize the gravity of the...

Damage to nature has been done, claim more and more experts. The West Antarctic ice sheet will continue to melt in this century, no matter how much humanity reduces emissions of gases causing our planet's warming, according to researchers...

Climate-related alarm signals are becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could add more than one meter to sea-level rise if global climate goals are not met. According to a new study published in the...

Record hunters can be satisfied because they are living in the midst of one. This year is on track to become the hottest ever recorded, with the average global temperature recorded so far in 2023 being 0.52 degrees Celsius higher than the...

Human aggression against nature is increasingly extensive and dangerous. Approximately six billion tons of marine sand and other sediments are extracted from oceans each year, according to the United Nations, warning of the serious consequences...

The Maldives, spread across the Indian Ocean, are naturally protected from the coronavirus through their isolation from the rest of the world, surrounded by water. Maldives manages to bring back your sense of silence and normality, and the...

Planeta suferă de mai multe "boli", iar una este legată de topirea în ritm accelerat a gheţarilor. Trei cercetători de la NASA, aflaţi la bordul unui avion, care efectuează curse deasupra Groenlandei orientale, au lansat mai multe sonde...

Acţiunile societăţilor listate la bursele din Europa au fluctuat ieri, după ce "Citigroup" Inc. a îndemnat la investiţii în sectorul minier, iar SUA au anunţat declinul numărului solicitărilor iniţiale de ajutor de şomaj.