More children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October than have died in every global conflict between 2019 and 2022 combined, according to figures released by the…
The U.N. human rights office says in a report published Friday that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war…
Thirty-two coastal cities could face severe flooding due to land subsidence and rising sea levels, according to a recent study published in Nature. An ABC News report (Coastal US cities…
Last month, February 2024, was the world's warmest February in modern times, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) says, extending the run of monthly records to nine in a…
Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the country’s former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was hanged 44 year ago after being convicted of murder, did not get a fair…
Women in rural areas suffer substantially greater economic losses from the impacts of climate breakdown than men in developing countries, finds a new research by the Food and Agriculture Organization.…
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report. An ABC News report (Climate change could unearth, disturb Cold…
In view of the Alabama’s Supreme Court’s recent decision on frozen embryos (in-vitro fertilization or IVF), the women in the U.S. are in panic. A fortune.com report (After Alabama’s IVF…
States with the largest nuclear arsenals should negotiate a treaty on no-first-use of nuclear weapons against each other or make a political statement in this regard, the Chinese foreign ministry's…
The water has now turned into a serious question in the U.S., as in many parts of the world. There is report that climate crisis is changing water cycle in…
Chicago becomes the latest U.S. city to sue the oil industry over climate crisis. The U.S. city has joined several other cities and states in suing oil companies. The effort…
U.S. is gaining from war in Europe. A Wall Street Journal report (How War in Europe Boosts the U.S. Economy, Sun, Feb 18, 2024) said: ‘Proponents of support for Ukraine usually invoke…
Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption, warns a new study (Critical transitions in…
In the battle to slow global warming, January was the hottest month on record according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Thursday, 15 February 2024. Global precipitation reached a…
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations chief warned Tuesday that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace, telling a high-level UN meeting that climate disasters imperil food…
Large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is more likely and closer than before caused by an abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents, finds a new study. The study…
For the first time, world temperature has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, reports the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), European Union's climate service. This year-long breach is no major…
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