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Climate Change
Climate Change Increases Earthquake Activity
Melting glaciers can destabilize active faults in mountain ranges, amplifying seismic activity by up to five times
Editorial Team•20 December 2024
Climate Change
The Other Side of Overtourism: The…
The carbon intensity of every euro spent on tourism is four times…
Editorial Team•18 December 2024
Climate Change
Insurance costs rise as climate-related damages…
Climate change is having an increasing economic impact, but insurance companies continue…
Editorial Team•13 December 2024
Climate Change
COP29, the agreement on the global carbon market is reached immediately
During the opening plenary session, the agreement on Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement was approved.…
Editorial Team•12 November 2024
Climate Change
Shell wins in court: the basis for climate litigation worldwide collapses
The Court of Appeal in The Hague has ruled in favor of the oil major, overturning…
Editorial Team•12 November 2024
Environment
Decoupling too slow; half of the planet will not reach net zero…
The PIK Potsdam study analyzes the trend of decoupling GDP-emissions in 1,500 regions worldwide, which account…
Editorial Team•7 November 2024
Climate Change
2024 will exceed 1.5°C of global warming
Compared to the pre-industrial era, October 2024 was 1.65°C above average. This year will almost certainly…
Editorial Team•7 November 2024
Climate Change
Anthropogenic climate change has worsened the flooding in Valencia
The World Weather Attribution analysis estimates that the global temperature increase has made events like this…
Editorial Team•6 November 2024
Pollution
An unprecedented decrease: in 2023, Europe reduced emissions by 8.3%
Last year, greenhouse gas emissions in the EU dropped almost as much as during the pandemic,…
Editorial Team•5 November 2024
Climate Change
Climate and health, 2023 has brought us ‘concerning’ records
The 2024 edition of the Lancet Countdown outlines a noticeable worsening of indicators on the climate-health…
Editorial Team•31 October 2024
Climate Change
Respecting 1.5°C is still ‘technically feasible’: data from the Emissions Gap Report…
The annual report from the UN Environment Agency updates the key indicators to assess our remaining…
Editorial Team•25 October 2024
Climate Change
Gold, smartphones, and renewables fuel mining-driven deforestation
Since 2001, 14,000 km² of forests have been lost due to mining activities and related operations—an…
Editorial Team•24 October 2024
Climate Change
Since 2001, forest fire emissions have increased by 60%
Warmer, drier climates and higher forest growth rates are factors—linked to the climate crisis—that fuel forest…
Editorial Team•23 October 2024
Climate Change
Global carbon capture capacity remains stalled: only 51 million tons of CO2…
The CCS Institute has updated its global monitoring of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. While…
Editorial Team•18 October 2024
Climate Change
For Europe, adaptation to climate change is still a black hole
Report from the European Court of Auditors on actions for climate crisis adaptation. States provide generic…
Editorial Team•17 October 2024
Climate Change
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