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Our worst nightmare: Raging wildfire hits western Canada town of Jasper | Environment News | Al Jazeera
2024-07-25 in Al JazeeraAuthorities say damage is ‘significant’ in Canadian Rockies town as firefighters work to save as much as possible.
Google blames AI as its emissions grow instead of heading to net zero
2024-07-02 in Al JazeeraGoogle points to artificial intelligence and demand it puts on energy-hungry data centres for its growth in emissions.
‘Scared as hell’: Climate scientists risk jobs, jail to save dying planet | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
2024-06-16 in Al JazeeraOverwhelmed scientists embrace civil disobedience and specialised therapy to deal with rising eco-anxiety.
Nuclear energy cannot lead the global energy transition | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2024-04-03 in Al JazeeraWith nuclear energy, when things go wrong, they go very, very wrong.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power
Photos: Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro
2024-03-18 in Al JazeeraReading is city’s highest in a decade. Heat index measures what a temperature feels like, taking into account humidity.
‘Everything is dead’: How record drought is wreaking havoc on the Amazon
2023-12-20 by in Al JazeeraCommunities that rely on the rainforest’s waterways now find themselves struggling with fire and plunging water levels.
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Drought | Brazil
Wildfires rage in Argentina’s Cordoba province amid heatwave | In Pictures News | Al Jazeera
2023-10-11 in Al JazeeraAuthorities evacuate people as massive flames surround populated areas in Cordoba province.
Tagged under: Argentina | Wildfires
Deaths of 120 Amazon dolphins linked to severe drought, high temperatures | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
2023-10-04 (or before) in Al JazeeraAmazon River’s pink, grey dolphins are a threatened species and among the few freshwater dolphins found in the world.
Tagged under: Amazon Rainforest | Drought | Rivers | Whales and Dolphins | Wildlife | Brazil
Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds | Environment News | Al Jazeera
2023-09-29 (or before) in Al JazeeraJapanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Middle East | Japan
Six Portuguese youth take 32 nations to European court over climate change | European Union | Al Jazeera
2023-09-25 (or before) by in Al JazeeraThe group will argue at the European Court of Human Rights that government inaction discriminates against youth.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Iraq’s Water Wars – Part 1
2023-09-20 (or before) in Al JazeeraPeople & Power investigates Iraq’s intensifying water crisis and how it’s impacting the country’s rural communities.
‘Climate breakdown has begun’: UN reports record summer heat
2023-09-09 (or before) in Al JazeeraScientists blame ever warming human-caused climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas.
Tagged under: Global Warming | Climate Change
Extreme weather brings winds, fierce rains to Saudi Arabia’s Mecca
2023-08-23 in Al JazeeraPilgrims doing the tawaf on Tuesday were caught in storms as lightning hit an iconic tower in Mecca.
Tagged under: Extreme Weather | Saudi Arabia
Iran’s surprise ‘unprecedented heat’ shutdown raises questions | Climate News | Al Jazeera
2023-08-04 (or before) by in Al JazeeraGovernment offices, banks, capital markets and private businesses will remain shut until Saturday.
Tagged under: Iran
No room for fossil fuel executives at climate negotiation tables | Environment | Al Jazeera
2023-07-13 (or before) by in Al JazeeraUntil their actions align with their words, we should not work with them.
Tagged under: Fossil Fuels
What makes South Asia so vulnerable to climate change? | Climate News | Al Jazeera
2023-07-09 (or before) by in Al JazeeraExtreme weather events in one of the world’s most populous regions bring food insecurity, displacement and disease.
Tagged under: Climate Change
‘Nothing left’: Floods in Sudan leave 100 dead, many homeless | News | Al Jazeera
2023-05-03 (or before) in Al JazeeraThe UN says at least 258,000 people have been affected by the floods in 15 out of 18 provinces.
Argentina’s grain harvest suffers under worst drought in 60 years | Drought News | Al Jazeera
2023-03-09 in Al JazeeraAlready struggling under spiralling inflation, the South American country faces a decline in grain, its main export.
Tagged under: Argentina | Drought | South America
How the nuclear lobby scuttled the EU’s anti-greenwashing tool | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2023-03-08 (or before) by in Al JazeeraGiving nuclear energy a “sustainable” label in a key EU regulation could derail progress on climate change.
Tagged under: Nuclear Power | Climate Change
We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction
2023-01-30 (or before) in Al JazeeraApocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Extinction
Shell to pay $15m settlement over oil spills in Nigeria
2022-12-25 (or before) in Al JazeeraShell claimed the settlement for spills in the Niger Delta between 2004 and 2007 was not an admission of liability.
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India
2022-12-11 (or before) in Al JazeeraAnd lied about it.
Tagged under: India
Arctic warming 4 times faster than rest of planet: Climate study
2022-08-14 (or before) in Al JazeeraFinnish researchers say climate models have underestimated the pace of warming in the Arctic region.
Tagged under: Arctic
‘Insane’ lithium price bump threatens EV fix for climate change | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2022-07-07 (or before) by in Al JazeeraThe price of the metal used in batteries for electric cars has risen six-fold since the start of the year.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Climate Change | Electric Cars | Cars
The Global South has the power to force radical climate action | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2022-06-29 (or before) by in Al JazeeraAfter all, Western economies – and their economic growth – depend utterly on labour and resources from the South.
Tagged under: Economic Growth
Bangladeshi children leaving school to work due to climate crisis | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
2022-05-15 (or before) in Al JazeeraAs families migrate after climate-related disasters, UNICEF says 1.7 million of country’s children are now labourers.
Tagged under: Women and Children | Children
Mexico water supply buckles on worsening drought, crops at risk | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
2021-09-06 (or before) in Al JazeeraWeather forecasts warn of high temperatures portending crop damage and water supply shortages.
Tagged under: Drought | Mexico
The poverty of ‘economic growth’
2021-06-12 (or before) by in Al JazeeraSimplistic stories of GDP growth are blinding us to the social and ecological destruction it so often entails.
Tagged under: Economics | GDP | Economic Growth
We need to treat climate change as the emergency that it is
2021-06-04 (or before) by in Al JazeeraWhy are most media outlets not giving the climate emergency the 24/7 coverage they provided for the COVID-19 pandemic?
Tagged under: Climate Change
East Africa locust outbreak sparks calls for international help | Environment News | Al Jazeera
2020-01-25 (or before) in Al JazeeraDesert locust infestation threatens food security and livelihoods in region reeling from drought and deadly floods.
Tagged under: Drought | Africa
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