Locals bear the brunt of an unusually dry winter that's being blamed on unregulated tourism and the climate crisis.#Features #ClimateCrisis #Tourism #Asia #India #Kashmir
‘Sitting back without work’: Kashmir’s snowless ski slopes hit livelihoods
Cyclone Belal brought flash floods, submerging cars in its path along roads in Port Louis, Mauritius.#Newsfeed #ShowTypes #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Weather #Africa #Mauritius
Flash floods in Mauritius
The rains flooded streets, the capital city's metro line and peoples' homes, bringing down trees and causing landslides.#Gallery #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Floods #InPictures #Weather #Brazil #LatinAmerica
Torrential rains leave at least 11 dead in Brazil
Kerry has been instrumental in brokering a number of international climate agreements.#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Politics #UnitedStates #US&Canada
US climate envoy John Kerry to step down: Reports
Officials say at least 33 people have died in mudslides brought on by heavy rains in the province of Choco.#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Weather #Colombia #LatinAmerica
Dozens killed in Colombia landslide, including children
More communities on the fringes of the Sahara desert say they are losing their farmlands and homes.#Features #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Africa #Nigeria
Desert swallows livelihoods as climate shocks continue in northeast Nigeria
Blackened corpses scar a landscape where the rains have been more than six weeks late.#Features #Gallery #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Drought #InPictures #Africa #Zimbabwe
Heartbreak in Zimbabwe park: Elephants’ desperate hunt for water
Natural disasters and extreme weather events killed and displaced tens of thousands of people across the world.#Features #Gallery #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Earthquakes #Floods #InPictures #Volcanoes
Natural disasters that plagued the world in 2023
The Amazon rainforest experienced its worst drought on record in 2023. Many villages became unreachable by river, wildfires raged and wildlife died. Some scientists worry events like these are a sign that the world's biggest forest is fast approaching a point of no return.
As the cracked and baking river bank towers up on either side of us, Oliveira Tikuna is starting to have doubts about this journey. He's trying to get to his village, in a metal canoe built to navigate the smallest creeks of the Amazon.
Bom Jesus de Igapo Grande is a community of 40 families in the middle of the forest and has been badly affected by the worst drought recorded in the region.
There was no water to shower. Bananas, cassava, chestnuts and acai crops spoiled because they can't get to the city fast enough.
And the head of the village, Oliveira's father, warned anyone elderly or unwell to move closer to town, because they are dangerously far from a hospital.
Oliveira wanted to show us what was happening. He warned it would be a long trip.
But as we turn from the broad Solimões river into the creek that winds towards his village, even he is taken aback. In parts it's reduced to a trickle no more than 1m (3.3ft) wide. Before long, the boat is lodged in the river bed. It's time to get out and pull.
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#Amazon #AmazonRainForest #drought #climateChange #climateCrisis #BBC
Malaysia's climate minister says he'll cut subsidies from the rich and help the poor to help better the environment.#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Wildlife #AsiaPacific #Malaysia
Will raising fuel and power bills make Malaysians go solar?
Communities that rely on the rainforest’s waterways now find themselves struggling with fire and plunging water levels.#Features #Agriculture #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Brazil #LatinAmerica
‘Everything is dead’: How record drought is wreaking havoc on the Amazon
Biden has a chance to show that the world’s biggest exporter of oil and gas is actually going to change its ways. It’s not clear if he’ll take it
More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be “transitioning away from from fossil fuels”. Some cheered and some scoffed; we’ll soon know if the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas – the United States – meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.
That’s because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result the US has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, the veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.
They should have stopped long ago – in part because of the damage these giant terminals are doing to the people, the fish and the air of Louisiana and Texas. But if the DoE keeps approving these licenses now, it will fly in the face of their promise in Dubai. “Transitioning away from fossil fuels” doesn’t mean stopping all use of coal, gas and oil tomorrow; sadly, that’s impossible. But it clearly means not building new infrastructure to expand the production and sale of hydrocarbons.
That’s why 230 groups, including the ones we represent, have called on the DoE to pause all new export licenses until they fully revamp their procedures for figuring whether these permits are, as the statute requires, in “the public interest”. At the moment, the government uses a 2014 standard for making that determination – but since 2014 the price of renewables has dropped like a rock, and the temperature has soared higher than any time in human history.
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#Biden #fossilFuels #oil #environment #climateChange #climateCrisis
There is a way out of the climate crisis – but it is not through COP#Opinions #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Europe #MiddleEast #UnitedArabEmirates
There is a way out of the climate crisis – but it is not through COP
Residents took shelter on rooftops as intense precipitation created 'once-in-a-century' flooding around the state.#Gallery #ClimateCrisis #InPictures #AsiaPacific #Australia
Hundreds evacuated as floodwaters hit northeastern Australia
For farmers across the globe, access to reliable weather and climate data is critical in adapting to a new normal.#Features #Gallery #Agriculture #Climate #ClimateCrisis #InPictures #Africa #Kenya
Adapting in the face of climate change in rural Kenya
IEA report says demand is expected to grow in India, China but decline in United States, European Union.#Climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #Africa #Asia #AsiaPacific #China #Europe #India #MiddleEast #US&Canada
Global coal use to reach record high in 2023, energy agency says
With the fossil fuels industry resisting change, what are the real prospects for averting climate disaster?#BusinessandEconomy #ClimateCrisis #Environment #UnitedNations
Is the world capable of stopping a climate apocalypse?
A contentious fossil fuels agreement stirred up anger while states found to be falling behind on climate commitments.#BusinessandEconomy #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #FossilFuels #Politics #Sustainability
COP28 Dubai is over: Four key highlights from the UN climate summit
Tunisian dams are filled at just 22 percent capacity and some 20 dams have already gone out of service.#Features #Gallery #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Environment #InPictures #Water #MiddleEast #Tunisia
‘We are the living dead’: Drought-hit Tunisian villages battle isolation
