Environment
Climate Change
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
Forest ecosystems and climate change
Is it possible to protect forest ecosystems from the effects of climate change? A study has…
Editorial Team•30 August 2024
Climate Change
Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to…
A new study from the JRC examines the effects of climate change on temperature-related morbidity and…
Editorial Team•26 August 2024
Climate Change
Record temperature for the Mediterranean with an average daily climb of 30…
On 15 August a record average temperature for the Mediterranean Sea of 28.9°C was recorded, higher…
Editorial Team•22 August 2024
Environment
The greatest danger to the Amazon forest is not deforestation
A PNAS study provides the first accurate estimate of the specific impact of the various anthropological…
Editorial Team•20 August 2024
Climate Change
Financing a research programme to safeguard the health of oceans and corals
Protecting corals and the health of the oceans is the goal of the Big Ideas for…
Editorial Team•19 August 2024
Climate Change
July pushes 2024 to new global warming record
Data from the European satellite system Copernicus set the global warming for January-July 2024 at +1,58…
Editorial Team•9 August 2024
Environment
Extreme heat deaths: 175 000 deaths per year in Europe
Europe is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. It alone accounts…
Editorial Team•8 August 2024
Environment
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024: we consume 1.75 Planets per year
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024. Global ecological debt has been stable for a decade. But…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024
Climate Change
In 2023 Earth’s carbon sink will collapse
By 2022, terrestrial ecosystems that naturally capture and store CO2 had absorbed 9.5 billion tonnes. Last…
Editorial Team•1 August 2024
Environment
Global warming: 2024 will be the warmest year ever
After the first 6 months of the year that marked new primates of heat, 2024 is…
Editorial Team•29 July 2024
Environment
We’ve had a whole year with global warming surpassing 1.5°C
Last month, globally, it was 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial average, and in Europe the global…
Editorial Team•8 July 2024
Climate Change
$21 billion to finance climate crisis adaptation in 700 global cities
More than 80% of the more than 1,100 cities that disclose data on their climate performance…