“An extreme season”: Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps following heatwaves
EMMA FARGE and GLORIA DICKIE, of Reuters, report on the European Alps retreating glaciers…
Planning for dry times: Women plant ‘water farms’ to fight drying soil in north-east Brazil
FABIO ZUKER, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how women farmers are using the umbu tree, which stores water in its roots, to help reforest the country’s semi-arid north-east…
Nicaragua: Coffee farmers brew fresh plans after hurricanes wreck harvests
ANNA-CATHERINE BRIGIDA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the challenges coffee farmers in Nicaragua are facing thanks to rising temperatures – and two hurricanes which impacted the country late last year…
Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests
Anchorage, Alaska, USReuters Earth’s ice is melting faster today than in the mid-1990s, new research suggests, as climate change nudges global temperatures ever higher. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion metric tons of ice have melted away from the world’s sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers since the mid-1990s. Annually, the melt rate is now about […]
Profits from world’s seas dominated by 100 companies
Thomson Reuters Foundation Just 100 companies account for most of the profits from the world’s seas, researchers said on Wednesday, calling on them to help save the oceans from over-fishing, rising temperatures and pollution. Together, the companies generated $US1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, or about 60 per cent of the total, according to a […]
Life-threatening extreme heat set to trap millions indoors by 2060
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation Extreme heat and humidity are increasing across the globe, threatening millions of lives and economies in places where it could become fatal to work outdoors, scientists said on Friday. Parts of Australia, India, Bangladesh, the Persian Gulf, China, Mexico and the United States have experienced hundreds of previously rare incidents of […]
Australia prepares for post-Christmas extreme bushfires
Melbourne, AustraliaReuters Scorching heat baking Australia eased on Monday bringing relief from extreme bushfires, which destroyed around 180 houses and killed one person over the weekend, allowing firefighters to prepare for worsening conditions post-Christmas. Six people have now died in bushfires which have destroyed more than 3.7 million hectares across five states. Flames engulf a […]
Europe’s record heatwave threatens Greenland ice sheet
Geneva, SwtizerlandReuters The hot air that smashed European weather records this week looks set to move towards Greenland and could cause record melting of the world’s second largest ice sheet, the United Nations said on Friday. Clare Nullis, spokeswoman for the UN World Meteorological Organization, said the hot air moving up from North Africa had […]
Rising heat stress could cost 80 million jobs by 2030 – UN
London Thomson Reuters Foundation Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with poor countries worst hit, the United Nations said on Monday, as Europe sweltered in record temperatures. A temperature rise of 1.5 Celsius by the end of century could lead to a 2.2 per […]