Wildfires in France, Germany, Greece, Spain, and Portugal have emitted over 8.31 million tonnes of CO₂ by July 22, with a 57% rise in European wildfires since 2022. WHO Europe warns of more frequent and intense blazes due to climate change, highlighting severe health impacts from smoke pollution.
Spain declared its first national emergency for wildfires, evacuating over 10,000 residents as an intense heatwave fuels destructive blazes. France also requested EU assistance for a major fire near Bordeaux, forcing 40,000 evacuations, highlighting southern Europe's escalating wildfire crisis.
Intense heatwaves and drought have caused severe wildfires across Europe, Canada, and the US. Experts discuss varied management strategies, including Indigenous cultural burning, while Brazil shows success in reducing Amazon fires, though El Nino poses future risks.
England has launched a national strategy to combat drowning, a "public health disaster," following a surge in water-related deaths, including two recent fatalities in Essex. Measures include water safety education for children and assessing climate change risks.
A new study reveals North American beavers have been colonizing parts of the Canadian Arctic since 2008, expanding northward due to climate change. Researchers combined tree-ring analysis of beaver-chewed shrubs with satellite images to reconstruct their activity, offering a new method for monitoring environmental change in remote regions.
UK citizens across various demographics share their expectations for the next Prime Minister, emphasizing honesty, integrity, and courage. Key demands include addressing the cost of living crisis, climate change, improving public services like the NHS and social care, reforming housing, and adopting a fairer, more compassionate approach to governance and international affairs.
Record heat waves, exacerbated by climate change, are causing widespread sleep loss across Europe, affecting physical and mental health. A recent poll showed 65% of UK adults struggled to sleep during a June heat wave. Scientists warn of increasing health and socioeconomic inequalities, urging adaptation.
Flash floods in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province killed at least 20 people, injured 80, and left over 100 missing. Authorities confirmed a rescue mission is underway, with severe damage to homes and farmland, and more extreme weather is predicted.
American oystercatchers, once extinct in New England, are seeing a significant population recovery across US coasts due to conservation efforts like habitat protection, public education, and predator control. Despite this success, climate change and recent changes to the Endangered Species Act pose ongoing threats to their nesting sites.
The floating Arctic research station 'Tara' has departed Lorient, France, for a two-year mission to drift with sea ice. An international team will collect over 10,000 samples to study climate change's impact on the rapidly transforming polar region.
Biologists in Rhode Island are part of a nationwide effort to restore the American oystercatcher population, which has seen a 45% increase along Atlantic and Gulf coasts since 2008. The conservation success, driven by education and habitat protection, faces new threats from climate change and recent changes to the Endangered Species Act.
A US National Academies of Science report confirms climate attribution science's growing maturity in linking extreme weather events to climate change, increasing prospects for corporate liability. This scientific progress has triggered political backlash and threats to the Academies' funding from the fossil fuel industry and some politicians.
Top UNESCO officials, including Nayef Al-Fayez and Lazare Eloundou Assomo, called for urgent global action in Busan, South Korea, to protect cultural and natural heritage from escalating climate change and armed conflicts, emphasizing preventive measures and international cooperation, culminating in the adoption of the 'Busan Declaration'.
A briefing to BHP investors by the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) warns Australia's federal fuel tax break, worth $622m to BHP, is delaying the miner's decarbonisation efforts. The ACCR suggests removing the tax break would make electrification projects financially viable, raising questions about BHP's climate commitments and transparency.
Climate change is expanding the range of disease-carrying mosquitoes, like the Asian tiger mosquito, into temperate regions such as New England, increasing the risk of viruses like West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis. While Connecticut has a statewide monitoring program, many areas, including parts of New York, lack comprehensive surveillance, hindering proactive prevention efforts.
US President Trump threatened new tariffs on Canada, citing "willful negligence" over wildfires causing smoke in the northern US. Canadian officials, including Premier Ford and PM Carney, defended their efforts, highlighting cross-border cooperation and climate change's role, while US lawmakers expressed impatience.
Over 10,650 excess deaths were recorded in Europe during the late June heatwave, with more than 9,000 among those aged 65 and above. Scientists link the extreme heat to human-caused climate change, which exacerbates heatwaves' frequency and intensity.
New climate evidence suggests a severe drought in the southwest Pacific between 850 and 1200 AD may have prompted Polynesian ancestors to migrate eastward, settling islands like Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island.
Environmental groups warn climate change is causing a "catastrophic mortality event" for Pacific gray whales due to food depletion from melting sea ice. Other factors like ship strikes and pollution also contribute, leading to a near halving of the population since 2019. A petition to relist them under the Endangered Species Act is pending.
Deadly wildfires are sweeping across Europe, with at least 11 people killed in southern Spain this week. Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and scientists warn climate change is exacerbating fire frequency and intensity.
The article explores the profound, yet largely unexpressed, grief many experience due to environmental degradation. It highlights the lack of cultural language and rituals for mourning ecological losses, contrasting it with human death rituals, and calls for greater acknowledgment and collective mourning of these changes.
L'Italia affronta la terza ondata di calore con temperature fino a 43 gradi in Sardegna. Francia in allerta rossa in nove dipartimenti. Regno Unito registra il maggior numero di giornate sopra i 34 gradi.
Matthew Wielicki, a critic of climate science, has been appointed to lead the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Wielicki has expressed skepticism about climate change data and predictions, while the administration states its commitment to using the best scientific information.
A contagious and deadly cancer, bivalve transmissible neoplasia, is spreading among soft-shelled clams on the West Coast, impacting 75% of the population in Washington's Puget Sound. While clams remain safe for human consumption, the disease threatens the wider ecosystem and other shellfish already vulnerable to pollution and climate change.
