Tag Archives: Climate

AI must have net zero emissions to uphold our climate goals. Credit: Shutterstock Opinion by Philippe Benoit (washington dc) Thursday, April 25, 2024 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Apr 25 (IPS) – Artificial intelligence provides amazing potential for advancement across fields, from medicine to agriculture to industry to the entertainment business, …

Glaciers are shrinking, coral reefs are in crisis and last year was the hottest on record. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have passed a dangerous new threshold as people continue to burn fossil fuels. Is anyplace making progress on climate change? The short answer is: It’s …

Opinion by Sudip Ranjan Basu – Hitomi Rankine – Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisg (bangkok, thailand) Tuesday, April 02, 2024 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr 02 (IPS) – Stories of growing vulnerability make regular headlines across all Asian and Pacific small island developing States (SIDS). With tens of thousands of people displaced every …

Yamandú Pagliano plans to cross Praia do Cassino, the world’s longest beach, stretching 250 kilometers along Brazil’s southern coast from Uruguay, in his homemade wheeled wind buggy, to highlight the need to address global heating. Credit: Yamandú Pagliano by Paul Virgo (rome) Tuesday, March 26, 2024 Inter Press Service ROME, Mar …

“Turn off the lights, and move the world towards a better future for all,” UN Secretary General António Guterres said in a message for the event. The UN chief recalled that 2023 was the hottest in history, and this year’s celebration is a global demonstration of solidarity to follow a …

In a small room in Lower Manhattan, a group of eight New Yorkers sat in a circle sharing kombucha and their climate fears against the background of pattering rain and wailing sirens. In Champaign, Ill., a psychotherapist facilitating a meeting for other therapists held up a branch of goldenrod, asking …

The World Meteorological Organization warns there is a ‘high probability’ that 2024 will be another record-hot year. The United Nations’ weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-breaking increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and the melting of glaciers and sea ice. …

Africa has huge renewable energy potential – it has 60% of the world’s best solar resources, but the continent receives less than 3% of global energy investment. Credit: Aimable Twahirwa/IPS Opinion by Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue (yaounde) Tuesday, February 20, 2024 Inter Press Service YAOUNDE, Feb 20 (IPS) – Climate change made …

A family displaced by prolonged drought in Ethiopia now live in a makeshift tent in Mogadishu, Somalia. June 2023. Credit: IOM/Muse Mohammed Opinion by Sudip Ranjan Basu – Chen Wang – Monica Das (bangkok, thailand) Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Inter Press Service BANGKOK, Thailand, Jan 17 (IPS) – As the world …

At risk of flooding are 372 out of the country’s 744 local government areas. Opinion by Leon Usigbe (abuja, nigeria) Tuesday, January 02, 2024 Inter Press Service Climate disasters are happening at frightening rates in Nigeria, and the administration now says it will prioritize efforts to counter the effects of climate …