#climate change

Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves of unprecedented intensity and duration, droughts, dust storms and torrential rains, are expected to hit the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East region (EMME) by ...

By Gloria Dickie and David Stanway While Pakistanis count the cost of one of the country’s worst recorded floods, heavy rain is hitting southwestern China as the Texas city ...

By Gloria Dickie Worsening droughts, storms and torrential rain in some of the world’s largest economies could cause $5.6 trillion in losses to the global economy by 2050, according to a ...

Cyprus will present its climate change initiative at a special event to be held on the sidelines of the UN climate change conference, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis said on Wednesday. ...

Europe is facing its worst drought in at least 500 years, with two-thirds of the continent in a state of alert or warning, reducing inland shipping, electricity production and the yields ...

The eastern Mediterranean, with Cyprus in the middle, is featured in an article describing the functions of Nasa’s new Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) instrument, which launched ...

The U.S. Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping $430 billion bill intended to fight climate change, lower drug prices and raise some corporate taxes, a major victory for President Joe ...

EU countries clinched deals on proposed laws to combat climate change early Wednesday, backing a 2035 phase-out of new fossil fuel car sales and a multi-billion-euro fund to shield poorer citizens ...

Every ton of emissions matters: It is so important even for countries as small as ours to do our bit By Orestis Karghotis The climate crisis is a global, human-caused, ...

Our region will experience climate change more intensely and sooner than other regions, Agriculture Minister Costas Kadis reiterated on Tuesday as the island played host to a high-level international conference ...

Wave of schemes creates consumer confusion, greenwashing risk By Carey Biron Nutritional breakdowns, ethical trade branding, recycling information – and now estimates of a product’s climate impact. Consumers across the ...

The world faces a 50 per cent chance of warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, if only briefly, by 2026, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday. That does not ...

Dust levels remain high, with authorities issuing a new warning on Thursday urging the public and particularly vulnerable groups of the population to avoid going out. Similar warnings have been ...

By Alister Doyle Extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by planting forests and developing controversial high-tech industries will be essential to meet global goals to curb climate change, a UN ...

By Alkis Konstantidinis and Christophe Van Der Perre With precious few trees left to slow the wind in this once fertile corner of southern Madagascar, red sand is blowing everywhere: ...

By Gavin Jones A growing number of European countries are cutting fuel taxes to lower surging pump petrol prices. The move brings respite to motorists but environmentalists say it flies ...

Primary and secondary school students have called on politicians to take immediate climate action “to be able to dream for the future”. The new movement Generation KlimACT has published a ...

By Thomas S. Bateman and Michael E Mann Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, “Can I really make a ...

By Simon Willcock, Gregory Cooper and John Dearing Sprawling 5.5 million square kilometres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest of its kind and home to about one in ten of all ...

Climate change is warming Arctic waters By Yereth Rosen With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted ...

UN climate report urges immediate, drastic action By Jake Spring, Andrea Januta and Gloria Dickie Climate change is already disrupting billions of lives and humanity is not doing enough to ...

By Maria Demertzis The Maastricht treaty, signed thirty years ago this year, committed European Union countries to the greatest step in integration they’d so far taken. It established European ...

By Mohammed Benmansour As drought ravages the Middle East, Saudi environmental activist Abdullah Abduljabar sees a silver lining for deserts: Saxaul trees produce seeds only as they become drier, opening ...

The climate crisis and developments in the Cyprus problem were at the focus of a meeting which Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades had on Friday with the US Special Presidential Envoy ...