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The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabled salty lake is dropping nearly 4 feet (1.2 meters) a year. Less well known: Part of the lake is actually overflowing, threatening one of Israel’s key tourism destinations. Israel is feverishly campaigning to have the Dead Sea – the lowest [...]
World Environment Day is observed around the world on June 5. This started since 1972 after the Stockholm summit on environment and development. It’s a day that brings issues on environment under the microscope. Like previous years, this year also people around the world are observing world environment day. Different individuals and organisations and even [...]
The EEF, the organization that represents the UK manufacturing industry, will today urge the Government to reject the recommendations of the Climate Change Committee, which it says would saddle the country with unrealistic targets that are much more demanding than anything faced elsewhere in Europe. It said the committee’s “carbon budget”, published before Christmas, would [...]
Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimethylsulfide, or DMS, goes into the atmosphere, where it leads to water droplet formation – the basis of clouds that cool the Earth. In [...]
Residents of the Himalayas and other mountain areas face a “tough and unpredictable future” as global warming melts glaciers and threatens worse floods and water loss, officials said during U.N. climate talks on Tuesday. A study said that glaciers in southern Chile and Argentina, followed by ones in Alaska, had been losing mass “faster and [...]
We are entering a new era, one of rapid and often unpredictable climate change. In fact, the new climate norm is change. The 25 warmest years on record have come since 1980. And the 10 warmest years since global recordkeeping began in 1880 have come since 1998. The effects of rising temperature are pervasive. Higher [...]
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