Climate change: Across the globe, millions join biggest climate protest ever
Young and old alike took to the streets in an estimated 185 countries to demand action Sandra Laville and Jonathan Watts Sat 21 Sep 2019 Millions of people demonstrated […]
I was the only Republican witness at the climate change Congressional hearing this week — and I feel optimistic
As a conservative, I see this as a patriotic opportunity for America to once again lead the world Benji Backer Washington Yesterday, history was made in Washington DC. For […]
‘Climate apartheid’: UN expert says human rights may not survive
Right to life is likely to be undermined alongside the rule of law, special rapporteur says Damian Carrington Environment editor @dpcarrington Tue 25 Jun 2019 International climate treaties have been […]
The myth of climate wars?
Jun 04,2019 – JORDAN TIMES By Alaa Murabit and Luca Bücken NEW YORK — In the years leading up to Syria’s civil war, the country endured three consecutive record-breaking droughts. […]
Climate : The Time to Act is Now
Speech Statement by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon at UN General Assembly Climate and Sustainable Development for All Summit Published 3 April 2019 From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office and Lord Ahmad […]
MINING AND HUMAN RIGHTS: How Glencore does its homework
By Dominique Soguel-dit-Picard THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON APRIL 15, 2019 A worker at Glencore’s Mutanda copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Glencore says it employs about […]
Melting Himalayan glaciers put 2 billion south Asian lives at risk
Anthony Dosseto A new report has warned that even if global warming is held at 1.5℃, we will still lose a third of the glaciers in the Hindu […]
How is the present cold in the US related to global warming?
Polar vortex: what is it and how is it linked to climate change? The polar vortex has broken into ‘two swirling blobs of cold air’, bringing the most frigid […]
Climate Change: Torrid time predicted for Switzerland by 2060
By Luigi Jorio This content was published on December 4, 2018 Over 40°C in the cities, long periods of drought and little snow in winter: in forty years’ […]
Science & Environment, Climate change: ‘World at crossroads’ warning as key talks begin
By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent, Katowice Four senior figures behind efforts to limit climate change have warned that the planet “is at a crossroads” as key talks opened a […]
The other shoe
Oct 18,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – GWYNNE DYER They still have not dropped the other shoe. The “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC” contains terrifying forecasts about what will […]
Climate change migrations
Oct 13,2018 – JORDAN TIMES -Ayoub Abu Dayyeh Learning from environmental exoduses in history is an important contemporary education in order to understand the long-term expected impact of today’s global […]
How can we seriously tackle climate change when one of the biggest barriers to reducing emissions is sitting in the White House?
We have no choice but to press on, but without the cooperation of countries such as the US and China, the rate of global warming won’t slow down fast enough to make […]
Global warming: Our future is here
The Never-Ending Summer Is Germany’s Heat Wave a Preview of the Future? Germany is currently experiencing a state of meteorological emergency. Although many are enjoying the scorching summer, the heat […]
Leading Antarctic experts offer two possible views of continent’s future
Scientists address Antarctica’s future Date: June 14, 2018 Source: University of Massachusetts at Amherst Summary: The next 10 years will be critical for the future of Antarctica, and choices made […]
Is the Gulf Stream about to collapse and is the new ice age coming sooner than scientists think?
Josh Gabbatiss Science Correspondent @josh_gabbatiss Thursday 12 April 2018 What is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation? So is The Day After Tomorrow about to become a reality, and are we […]
As climate threats grow, Iraq battles a new enemy: Water shortages
Officials say damage to Iraq’s own dams and other infrastructure makes water supplies more irregular By Thomson Reuters Foundation – Dec 12,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced Iraqi children who fled […]
Antarctic iceberg quarter the size of Wales splits from ice shelf
The Independent Online One of the world’s biggest ever icebergs – about the quarter the size of Wales or four times the size of London – has broken off from Antarctica. The massive berg, calved from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, is about 6,000 square kilometres in size. More follows… […]
Gloomy scenario
Jul 08,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Walid M. Sadi On the occasion of his 75th birthday, the internationally famed physicist and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of Cambridge University, expressed gloom and doom about the future of planet Earth and the people living on it. In a rare television interview conducted with him […]
G20 communique agreed apart from climate issue: EU officials
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]