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World's Top Court Paves Way for Climate Reparations

This is Beirut, 23/07 23:05 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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The world's highest court Wednesday declared that states are obliged under international law to tackle climate change and warned that failing to do so could open the door to reparations. In a historic statement, the International Court of Justice said climate change was an "urgent and existential threat" and countries had a legal duty to prevent ...

World's Major Courts Take Growing Role in Climate Fight

This is Beirut, 21/07 09:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries. Wednesday's highly anticipated advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice comes in the wake of landmark international decisions ...

Historic Heatwave in Europe: Extreme Temperatures and Maximum Vigilance

This is Beirut, 30/06 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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A punishing heat wave gripped southern Europe on Monday, prompting authorities to issue health and wildfire warnings as temperatures are expected to soar again. France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain have been sweltering for several days as the mercury climbed to 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) in some places. "This is unprecedented," Agner ...

Canada Faces Another Severe Wildfire Season as Burned Area Surpasses Averages

This is Beirut, 11/06 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Canada Wildfires Climate

Two years after a historically devastating summer, Canada is once again facing a massive fire season, with burned areas already exceeding year-to-date averages from recent years. More than 220 active fires were burning across the country Tuesday, with half of them considered out of control. More than 3.3 million hectares (12,700 square miles) ...

Half the World Faced an Extra Month of Extreme Heat Due to Climate Change: Study

This is Beirut, 30/05 10:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Climate Environment Heat

Half the global population endured an additional month of extreme heat over the past year because of manmade climate change, a new study found Friday. The findings underscore how the continued burning of fossil fuels is harming health and well-being on every continent, with the effects especially under-recognized in developing countries, the ...

UAE Hits Record May Temperature of51.6 degrees Celsius

This is Beirut, 24/05 17:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The United Arab Emirates breached its May temperature record for the second day in a row, hitting 51.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday, according to the National Center of Meteorology. "The highest temperature recorded over the country today is 51.6C in Sweihan (Al Ain) at 13:45 UAE local time (0945 GMT)," the office said in a post on X, ...

Fears for Crops as Drought Hits Northern Europe

This is Beirut, 23/05 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Parts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the Netherlands fearing the dry spell will dent harvests if it continues. Water shortages can stunt the growth of crops such as wheat, corn, rapeseed and barley, Nicolas Guilpart, a lecturer in agronomy at the Agro Paris Tech research ...

Severe Tornadoes Kill More Than 25 in South-Central Us

This is Beirut, 18/05 05:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United States Climate Tornadoes

Severe storms that swept through the US states of Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia left more than 25 people dead, laying waste to local communities and cutting off electricity to nearly 200,000, authorities said Saturday. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on X at least 18 people had died in the storms Friday night, while local officials in ...

Less-Thirsty Rice Offers Hope in Drought-Stricken Chile

This is Beirut, 29/04 17:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Chile Food Climate Rice

A cold, dry part of Chile might not sound like the best place to grow rice, a famously thirsty grain that thrives in tropical conditions. But a new strain of the world's favorite cereal developed by scientists in the drought-plagued South American country has generated hope that rice can be grown in seemingly inhospitable conditions. Using ...

Coral Reefs on the Verge of Collapse as Bleaching Crisis Escalates

This is Beirut, 23/04 13:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Oceans Climate Environment Corals

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warned Wednesday. Since it began in early 2023, the global coral bleaching event has mushroomed into the biggest and most intense on record, with reefs ...

Himalayan Snow at 23-Year Low, Threatening 2 Billion People

This is Beirut, 21/04 13:25 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Climate Environment Water Himalaya

Snowfall in Asia's Hindu Kush-Himalayan mountain range has reached a 23-year low, threatening nearly two billion people dependent on snowmelt for water, scientists warned in a report on Monday. The Hindu Kush-Himalayan range, which stretches from Afghanistan to Myanmar, holds the largest reserves of ice and snow outside the Arctic and ...

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