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Dust storm in Dubai (Al Kazim Towers in the background) Climate is one culprit in growth and spread of dust in Middle East
Climate change is transforming dust storms—a natural phenomenon in the Middle East—into a more frequent and widespread threat to health and economies throughout the r... (photo: GFDL / Nepenthes) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Environment   Middle East   Photos  
 A Russian oil tanker seen in the Strait of Kerch, Russia, Monday, Nov. 12, 2007. cg1 Russian oil tanker leaks pose billion-pound threat to English coast
A “ghost fleet” of unseaworthy Russian oil tankers travelling through the Strait of Dover risks inflicting billions of pounds of environmental damage on the English c... (photo: AP / Emergency Situations Ministry) The Times/The Sunday Times
English coast   Photos   Russian oil tankers   Wikipedia: Oil tanker   uk  
The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), also known as the common chimpanzee, robust chimpanzee, or simply chimp Chimps are dying of human sniffles. Is great ape tourism to blame?
There was something wrong with the chimpanzees. For weeks, a community of 205 animals in Uganda’s Kibale national park had been coughing, sneezing and looking generally... (photo: Creative Commons / Naveenkumar9494) AOL
Environment   Photos   Uganda   Wildlife  
The wolf, also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America, April 19, 2016. US Republicans vote to remove wolf protections
The Republican-majority US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would remove endangered species protections for the gray wolf across much of the country... (photo: Creative Commons / Pixabay/Andrea Bohl) Phys Dot Org
Endangered Species   Environment   Photos   US States  
A passenger looks on as a China Eastern flight taxi on the runway of Baiyun Airport on Friday, March 25, 2022, in southern China's Guangzhou province. Big data reveals true climate impact of worldwide air travel
For the first time ever, researchers have harnessed the power of big data to calculate the per-country greenhouse gas emissions from aviation for 197 countries covered by... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Travel  
Narcissus minor, in a wild zone in Belgium. Height of the plant: a few centimeters, 14 March 2014. How the plant world shapes the climate cycle
In order to understand the Earth's resilience, researchers at ETH Zurich are modeling climate changes from times long past. And they show that plants are not simply victi... (photo: Creative Commons / Jamain/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jamain) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Science  
Photo of growing flowers, to illustrate Earth Day marked every year on 22 April to demonstrate support for environmental protection Humans Are Changing Earth Deep Below Us As Well As At The Surface
The changes that our species is making to the planet are deeper than initially thought. Not only are the impacts of human activity changing the surface and climate of the... (photo: European Community / Lukasz Kobus) IFL Science
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Science  
Plastic bag Talks advance on a treaty to end plastic pollution
OTTAWA, Ontario — Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks finished early Tuesday in Canada. | For the first time in th... (photo: Creative Commons) Newsday
Climate change   Environment   Photos   Pollution  
Bleached branching coral (Acropora sp.) at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?
About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than cl... (photo: Creative Commons / Acropora at English Wikipedia) Grist
Coral Reefs   Environment   Photos   Science  
Pamir Highway, a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia The giant sheep helping Tajikistan weather climate change
In the hills outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, shepherd Bakhtior Sharipov was watching over his flock of giant Hissar sheep. | The breed, prized for profitability and a... (photo: Creative Commons / Hans Birger Nilsen) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Photos   Tajikistan   Weather  
A car lies on its side after being knocked over during a tornado that tore through downtown Sulphur, Okla., Sunday, April 28, 2024. Dozens of tornadoes plow central US, at least 5 killed
An exceptional number of tornadoes have ravaged parts of Oklahoma and nearby Great Plains states, leaving at least five dead, authorities and local media said Sunday. | A... (photo: AP / Ken Miller) The Daily Tribune - Bahrain
Extreme Weather   Natural Disaster   Photos   Tornadoes   Wikipedia: Tornado outbreak sequence of April 2528, 2024  
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people as it snakes through seven U.S. states, including the part of southeastern Utah seen in this photo snapped by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Colorado basin was identified in a NASA-led study as a region experiencing intense human water use. NASA-Led Research Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers
NASA & SPACE NEWS | A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth’s rivers, the rates at which it flows into the ocean,... (photo: NASA) Space Coast Daily
Environment   NASA   Photos   Science  
22nd Session of Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) Grist
Human Rights   Indigenous   Photos   United Nations  
FILE - Young men cool themselves off in a waterfall in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 14, 2023. July has been so hot so far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat. All the ways a hotter planet makes us sicker
There is scientific consensus that 2023 was the hottest year ever in the planet’s recorded history. It will get progressively worse as this century sweats it out in a s... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed, File) Indian Express
Climate change   Health   Photos   Science  
The ocean is the body of salt water which covers approximately 71% of the surface of the Earth, February 21, 2021. How deep does life go?
Microbial life may be pervasive everywhere beneath Earth’s surface under conditions long thought to be inhospitable, if not fatal. DepositPhotos | This article was orig... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Michal Matlon) Popular Science
Environment   Nature   Photos   Science