Tag: climate change
Several NGOs denounce the massive financing of the coal industry by banks
This is the main conclusion of research conducted by twenty-eight NGOs, including Reclaim Finance, Friends of the Earth France and Urgewald: banks continue to finance the coal industry. Among these…
Antarctica: whirlpools in the ocean are preventing the sea ice from melting…for now!
The Earth is heating up. And yet on the Antarctic side, the sea ice cover seems to want to remain stable. A paradox that researchers are struggling to explain. But…
‘Significant and potentially irreversible’ ocean deoxygenation began to occur in 2021
Among the effects of global warming is the deoxygenation of the oceans. An effect that researchers have tried to quantify. According to them, by 2080, no less than 70% of…
In Europe, climate disasters have claimed 140,000 lives in 40 years
According to a report published on Thursday by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the climatic disasters of the past 40 years have caused more than 140,000 deaths in Europe and…
Scientists have discovered that the huge Amazon basin is sensitive to rapid climate change
New findings upend assumptions about how the landscape of the Amazon Basin was shaped. It could have gone from erosion to construction in just a few tens of thousands of…
1400 researchers ask that the environment be mentioned
Nearly 1,400 researchers are concerned about ” lack of democratic debate on the climate and biodiversity in the presidential campaign and urge the candidates to express themselves on these essential…
Greenhouse gases: CO2 or methane, which is worse?
Carbon dioxide and methane are among the best known greenhouse gases. The increase in their emission into the atmosphere is the cause of the current global warming. the carbon dioxide…
Yannick Jadot pounded Emmanuel Macron on his climate assessment
” You will remain as the president of climate inaction. Yannick Jadot strongly challenged Emmanuel Macron at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on January 19. The environmental candidate for the…
NASA maps global lightning strikes over 25 years
A sensor installed on the ISS allows NASA to have a global map of lightning strikes across the globe from 1995 to 2020. It highlights the most struck areas in…
The disappearance of animal species leads to the decline of plant species
Many plant species depend on animal species to disperse their seeds. The disappearance of bird and mammal species thus threatens the survival of plant species throughout the world. Terrestrial plants…