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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |