Paris: Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BC, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilisation to the modern world's climate crisis. The Hittites dominated Anatolia in modern-day Turkey for nearly 500
Paris: Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said. Superbugs — strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics — are estimated to have killed 1.27 million
Abu Dhabi: The fight against global warming should not be at the expense of economic growth, the UAE oil chief who will lead this year’s UN climate talks said on Monday. Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates’ special envoy for climate change and CEO of
New York: Natural disasters, many driven by climate change, caused global economic losses of $313 billion in 2022, insurance broker Aon (AON.N) estimated, of which less than half was insured. Losses from natural catastrophes covered by the insurance sector amounted to $132 billion, 57% above the
Vienna: Evidence is emerging that climate-related disasters are becoming a cause of human trafficking as criminal gangs exploit a growing number of uprooted people, the UN said Tuesday. The continuing war in Ukraine is also another risk factor for increased human trafficking, the United Nations Office
Paris: Capping global warming at liveable levels will be impossible without massively scaling up the extraction of planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the first global assessment of CO2 removal warned Thursday. The persistent failure to draw down greenhouse gas emissions -- nearly 60 billion tonnes
Paris: The world’s political and business elite will gather for the annual Davos summit next week to promote “cooperation in a fragmented world”, with war in Ukraine, the climate crisis and global trade tensions high on the agenda. For half a century, the World Economic Forum
Denver: Earth’s fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported. But expect record-shattering hot years soon, likely in the next couple years because of “relentless” climate change from the
Frankfurt: Germany used more renewable energy than ever in 2022 but again failed to reach its CO2-reduction goal as Russia s war in Ukraine prompted a return to more coal and oil use, a think tank reported Thursday. Europe s biggest economy emitted 761 million tonnes
Paris: Catastrophic floods, crop-wilting droughts and record heatwaves this year have shown that climate change warnings are increasingly becoming reality and this is "just the beginning", experts say. The year did see some important progress, with major new legislation, particularly in the United States and Europe