PARIS – Diplomats will gather in Bonn from Monday to thrash out the draft of a climate pact to be adopted at a U.N. conference in Paris in December. With just 10 official negotiating days before 195 nations must seal the deal in the French capital, time is running out …
Climate change is "adding fuel to the fire" of worsening political instability and unrest around the world, an expert told a security forum. "We are experiencing a surprising uptick in global insecurity... partially due to our inability to manage climate stress," Columbia University professor Marc Levy, who conducts studies for …
While there has been a gradual drop in temperatures, this summer Algerians experienced a heatwave over 40 days. Is this normal? It’s unusual if you live in the northern, coastal Algerian cities, where maximum temperatures never drop below 36C; that’s our average body temperature, so it’s all related. However, 40C …
The Abbott government says Australia remains on track to lower greenhouse gas emissions even though total pollution edged higher in the March quarter compared with a year earlier. The latest quarterly figures skipped over the December quarter, with the Environment Department telling Fairfax Media it was too busy to compile …
It's not just California that's dealing with a drought. Much of the European continent has also been impacted by severe drought in June and July 2015, one of the worst since the drought and heat wave of summer of 2003. Satellite imagery and modelling has revealed that the drought, caused …
Researchers have made a disturbing discovery about the impact of climate change on North American lizards. Due to high temperatures of 110 degrees Fahrenheit, within minutes, lizard embryos die due to immobility and their inability to seek proper shade. When their surrounding soil becomes too hot, their dwelling simply becomes …
At least five people have died and several homes destroyed during flash floods in a Sudanese locality on Saturday.Heavy rains have lashed the country since the beginning of August. Witnesses said that the five victims were killed when their houses in Sennar State located south of the capital Khartoum had …
Almost 100 people have died in Egypt as temperatures soared this month, including patients at a psychiatric hospital. Three people died and 206 were hospitalized on Saturday due to heat-related illnesses, the state-run news agency Mena reported, citing a health ministry statement. The death toll was 93 as of Friday. …
The new heat wave that rolled in on Sunday brought some record August temperatures according to the Meteorological Service. The monitoring station in Afula reached 41.5 degrees C, topping its previous record of 40.8 degrees, while in Ein Hahoresh the temperature reached a record 37.6 degrees. The hottest region of …
Cairo — Fifteen citizens died on Wednesday due to elevated temperatures, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, raising the death toll of the latest heat wave to hit Egypt to 76 this week. The ministry said in a statement that 447 citizens were hospitalised on Wednesday after suffering from heat-related …
Khartoum — At least nine people, including five women, died of sunstroke in northern Sudan where temperatures ranged between 47 to 48 DC in the shade. The Minister of Health, Bahar Idris Abugarda, said the deaths were a result of heat stroke. Speaking at a press conference he held Thursday, …
A scorching heat wave has gripped Egypt this week, killing at least 42 people, including a German man, three patients in a psychiatric hospital and three detainees at a jail, officials said Tuesday. While Egyptian summers are usually hot, this week’s temperatures in the south soared to 111 degrees Fahrenheit. …
Climate change, besides leading to physical destruction, is likely to affect the mental health of humans, a study has revealed. Droughts, floods, rising sea levels, increasing ambient temperatures and other consequences of climatic change can produce increasing psychological distress through mediators such as economic strain, migration, lower social capital, acculturation …
The CSIRO has cancelled its annual survey of Australians' attitudes to climate change and won't release the results of its 2014 study until late this year. The delay, says Labor, means the public will miss out on information that counters the Abbott government's "scare campaign" on climate issues. The science …
A heat wave in Poland on Monday forced the national supplier to cut electricity to factories for several hours, and Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz appealed to people to save energy during the day. Temperatures reached 38 Celsius (100 Fahrenheit) over the weekend and there has been almost no rainfall, leading …
Amaravati, the proposed capital of Andhra Pradesh, will face eight major environmental challenges that may affect the local atmosphere and lead to adverse climatic events in the region, a document prepared by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has identified. According to the document, degradation of vegetation, uncontrolled concretization, lack of …
Dark clouds are gathering on the horizon for Namibian farmers already grappling with a prolonged drought as forecasters predict 2015 could become the hottest year on record. In a worst-case scenario - after consecutive droughts - possibly the strongest ever El Niño heat waves predicted to hit parts of Southern …
Exceptionally warm water moving from the western Pacific Ocean towards South America has caused El Niño to get even stronger in recent weeks. In fact, scientists claim conditions in the Pacific are now as intense as they were in the summer of 1997, when a massive El Niño was brewing. …
NEW DELHI: Mean temperature in India has increased by nearly 0.6 degree Celsius over the last 110 years in line with rising temperature across the globe, said the government in Parliament while informing the Lok Sabha that the heat wave phenomena this year were "abnormally" high which had led to …
A climate change expert has warned of the unpredictability of El Nino and its adverse impact on monsoon and agricultural operations, as well as the potential of hotter summers. Ancha Srinivasan, Principal Climate Change Specialist, Asian Development Bank, explained the seemingly moderate El Nino can gain strength and has potential …
