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by Jean-Louis Santini with Kerry Sheridan in Miami Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Earth set a series of dire records in 2016, including hottest year in modern times, highest sea level and most heat-trapping gases ever emitted, a global climate report said Thursday. A range of key climate and weather indicators show the planet is growing increasingly warm, a trend that shows no signs of slowing down, said the annual State […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Average United States temperatures have risen dramatically and fast, with recent decades the warmest of the past 1,500 years, according to a draft federal government report cited by The New York Times on Tuesday. “Americans are feeling the effects of climate change right now,” said the report by 13 federal agencies not yet released or approved by President Donald Trump’s administration. The report “directly contradicts claims by President Trump and […]
by Francesco FONTEMAGGI Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States announced Friday it would still take part in international climate change negotiations in order to protect its interests, despite its planned withdrawal from the Paris accord on global warming. Two months after President Donald Trump announced the United States would abandon the 2015 global pact, his administration confirmed it had informed the United Nations of its “intent to withdraw from the […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — South Asia, home to one-fifth of the world’s population, could see humid heat rise to unsurvivable levels by century’s end if nothing is done to halt global warming, researchers said Wednesday. The study in the journal Science Advances warned of “summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.” The research is based on two climate models. One is a “business-as-usual” scenario […]
https://youtu.be/e1szlPL8a0s CHONGQING MUNICIPALITY, southwest China (CCTV) — Torrential rain and strong winds hit various parts of southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday. The downpour and strong winds disrupted traffic and flooded roadside shops in urban areas of Chongqing. Some vehicles were left trapped in the flood. The local police force implemented traffic control measures at some of the worst-hit road sections to stop drivers from driving dangerously in the flooded areas.
by Dominique Schroeder and Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Out-of-control wildfires like the ones that brought destruction to southern Europe, North America and parts of South Africa in recent weeks will likely become more frequent as global temperatures soar under climate change, experts say. More than 10,000 people had to flee raging fires in southern France this week, and several villages were evacuated in Portugal just weeks after another blaze […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Bleaching has damaged the world’s northernmost coral reef in Japan, a researcher said Tuesday, the latest example of a global phenomenon scientists have attributed to high ocean temperatures. Healthy coral reefs protect shores from storms and offer habitats for fish and other marine life, including ecologically and economically important species. After coral dies, reefs quickly degrade and the structures that coral build erode. While coral can recover from mild bleaching, severe […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Exceptionally warm years in the Arctic have provoked extra-cold winters and springs further to the south, decreasing crop yields across central Canada and the United States, researchers said Monday. “Our study demonstrates for the first time an apparent linkage between Arctic temperature variations and agricultural productivity in mid-latitudes,” they reported in the journal Nature Geoscience. Overall, global warming during the last half-century has boosted plant […]
WASHINGTON DC, United States (AFP) – United States President Donald Trump on Thursday strongly defended his decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord, declaring himself “proud” of the move. “In order to protect American jobs, companies and workers, we’ve withdrawn the United States from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord,” Trump said to applause, during a speech on the future of the US energy sector. “I will tell you we’re proud of it,” he […]
by Chris Stein Agence France-Presse WERDER, Ethiopia (AFP) – The Somali people of Ethiopia’s southeast have a name for the drought that has killed livestock, dried up wells and forced hundreds of thousands into camps: sima, which means “equalized.” It’s an appropriate name, they say, because this drought has left no person untouched, spared no corner of their arid region. And it has forced 7.8 million people across the whole of Ethiopia to rely on […]
SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) – Senior United States officials said on Monday (June 5) the US, under President Donald Trump was committed to the region, reassuring nervous global partners after pulling out of the global climate pact. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking in Sydney after meetings between Australian and US foreign and defense ministers, said the Trump administration should be judged for its actions and not words. Global leaders have said there was growing […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) – The United States on Wednesday put a spotlight on global efforts to combat illegal fishing at the United Nations ocean conference, steering clear of the controversy over its pullout from the Paris climate deal. President Donald Trump’s envoy to the conference, David Balton, said the ocean and its resources are “under tremendous pressure from a variety of threats – including illegal fishing, marine pollution, and ocean acidification.” “Illegal, unreported, […]
