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‘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.
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
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.
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: Children | Women and 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: 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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