Air conditioning is not an option when countries are hit by natural disasters. Be it wildfires or hurricanes and tropical storms. Today, 2.5 million people in Texas are without power due to downed power lines caused by Hurricane Beryl. Hurricane Katrina, not the deadliest in New Orleans, was warm and responsible for at least nine … Read more
First Residents of Larissa Desperate to fight flying cockroaches, they can take solace in the idea that Europe’s most sought-after resorts and tourist destinations: the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, the coast of Catalonia and Andalusia, face the same problem. On the outskirts of Barcelona, they report a 30% to 40% increase in cockroaches this … Read more
Hug ’cause we’re losing. This is climate change and housing crisisScientific research with an eloquent name “Living Smaller” RIFS (Research Institute for Sustainability – Hemholtz Center Potsdam) of the German Institute for Sustainability Research. Scientists at the institute (also funded by the German government) argue that if we want to face the twin challenges of … Read more
Southeast Europe ‘hot’ with high temperatures and waves heat wave continue. During the day, the mercury in the Balkans reaches 40 degrees, which is 7 degrees above average. Nights also remain high, although they bring at least some relief. Especially in densely urbanized areas such as Athens, temperatures reach 30 degrees Celsius at night due … Read more
It was last month hottest June on record The EU’s climate agency announced on Monday, a dire development that means 2024 could surpass last summer’s record slaughter record. The Copernicus climate service announced that all months since June 2023, a total of 13 consecutive months, have been the warmest months on record compared to corresponding … Read more
AI’s insatiable thirst for energy threatens to dynamite Google’s climate goal of net zero carbon emissions by 2030. Ecology report Published by Google This week, instead of falling, greenhouse gas emissions are expected to increase by 13% in 2023 compared to the previous year. Compared to the reference year of 2019, the increase reaches an … Read more
Normality tends to become now heat waves Extreme heat in Europe affects habits tourists Those who prefer to travel to northern countries are seen. Like many Parisians, Mathilde Martin escaped to the south of France during the height of summer. But a heat wave three years ago made him rethink his trips to the area … Read more
A march to warmer weather summer Experts always warn of extreme conditions that will prevail and use models to identify the areas that will be most affected, analyze the factors that affect the variability of weather conditions and Europe is warming faster than the global average. At the same time, the data shows that the … Read more
William Nordhaus, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Economics, introduced a “damage function”—an estimate of the damage caused by an additional unit of growth—in modeling the interaction between the economy and the atmosphere. temperature. We knew very little about its value climate change unknown land calling it “terra incognita”, unstable land compared to … Read more
His Lower House Switzerland rejected him Historic decision of the European Court of Human Rights forced the country to do more to deal with it climate changea move that could encourage other governments to ignore the rulings of international courts. In April, a Strasbourg court issued an unprecedented ruling that Bern had violated the law. … Read more