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More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
Jan 13, 2022 11:53Maximiliano Herrera, watcher of extreme weather and a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years, says last year likely to be in top five or six hottest in history.
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World’s top 2021 climate disasters cost nearly $200 billion: Study
Dec 30, 2021 11:14A new report shows that 2021 continued the trend of annual climate devastation worldwide that is costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars as planet-heating emissions unleash exactly the kind of damage scientists have warned about for decades.
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Why Omicron may be the final variant of concern?
Dec 29, 2021 06:59Even if highly contagious COVID-19 variant maximizes its potential, laws of biochemistry show the virus cannot keep improving indefinitely.
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The new variant is worrying – but it doesn’t change how we tackle COVID
Dec 02, 2021 06:37The only way to stop B.1.1.529 and other coronavirus mutations is through testing, masks, and getting vaccines to everyone in the world
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Cause of the pathetic plight of children worldwide
Nov 25, 2021 15:30Unfortunately, the modern world of science and technology which has drifted away from spiritual values, has become totally devoid of humanitarian tendencies, and begun to view children as objects of the carnal and commercial desires of the unprincipled adults.
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Fun fact: US special ops are in 33 of 44 countries in Europe today
Nov 24, 2021 14:16Roughly 11 percent of U.S. commandos deployed overseas this year were sent to Europe, the largest percentage of any region in the world except for the West Asia region and Africa.
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Massive COVID surge rattles Europe, putting US at risk
Nov 20, 2021 04:15COVID-19 is once again tearing a swath through Europe, with both infection and death rates rising rapidly. Over the last seven days in the U.S., infection rates have increased 14 percent to just above 86,000 cases. In that time, more than a thousand people died.
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Key report says world on track for disastrous heating of more than 2.4C
Nov 11, 2021 06:21Global temperatures are likely to rise more than 2C above pre-industrial levels by 2100, with even the most optimistic scenario passing the Paris agreement’s 1.5C goal.
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Report reveals European firms have more than $255B entwined in illegal Israeli settlements (2)
Oct 28, 2021 17:14Nearly 700 European firms have financial ties worth $255 billion with businesses actively involved in Israeli settlements, according to a new civil society report.
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'Bombshell': Total knew about climate threat from fossil fuels for decades, but denied it
Oct 25, 2021 12:13The dire consequences of climate change we are now experiencing could have been avoided if Total executives 50 years ago had decided that the future of the planet is more important than their profits.