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MADRID: Tens of thousands of activists from around the world including teen activist Greta Thunberg hit the streets of Madrid on Friday to demand urgent action on the climate crisis from world leaders attending the COP25 summit in the Spanish capital. The 16-year-old Swede, who has become famous for galvanising a generation of youngsters to…
NEW YORK: Actor Leonardo di Caprio joined former US vice president Al Gore and other personalities Wednesday in backing a new initiative to seek solutions to climate change. Leading figures from politics, economics, science and entertainment are lending their support to Countdown, which seeks to build support for zero-net emissions and is organized by the…
PARIS: NASA´s Parker Solar Probe, having survived its closest encounter so far with the Sun, has sent back a “spectacular trove” of data on its corona, the super-hot outer edge of its atmosphere, scientists said Wednesday. The car-sized probe, launched in August last year, will come within some four million miles (six million kilometres) of…
MAR MENOR: “I am in love with this sea. I live for it and I live off it. If they took it away from me, I would die,” says Pedro Martinez-Banos, gazing out across the sparkling waters of Spain´s Mar Menor. A fisherman all his life, this 50-year-old father-of-three grew up along the shores of…
PARIS: Scientists have been on a global search for the wild relatives of our food crops, hoping to bolster their defences against disease and climate change, a study showed Tuesday. Humans have domesticated wild plants for some 10,000 years to provide food but in doing so they have bred out many of their natural defences,…
WASHINGTON: Scientists said Monday they had used a drone to observe the rapid fracturing and draining of a lake on the Greenland ice sheet, a phenomenon that may become more frequent as a result of climate change. The ice sheet is typically about a kilometer thick, and during summer, it is normal for some of…
LOSPALOS: Mario Da Cruz could only watch in horror as a small army of crocodiles killed a child on an East Timor beach — another victim of the tiny nation´s soaring rate of attacks. Such incidents have jumped more than 20-fold over the past two decades with an average of one person a month falling…
PARIS: Loading the atmosphere with five million tonnes of CO2 every hour has pushed Earth dangerously close to a no-return threshold, beyond which lies an unlivable hothouse world, top climate scientists have warned. There are 15 known tipping points in the planet´s complex climate system, and nine of them — including permafrost, the Amazon rainforest,…
MONTREAL: Canada´s projected carbon tax must be more than quadrupled over the next 10 years to meet its Paris Agreement commitment to slash CO2 pollution, economists said in a report Wednesday. Carbon pricing is the primary measure undertaken so far by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau´s government to reduce Canada´s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent…
US recognizes Jeanine Anez as Bolivia’s interim president WASHINGTON: The United States recognized Jeanine Anez on Wednesday as Bolivia’s interim president after the resignation of Evo Morales following weeks of turmoil. “The United States applauds Bolivian Senator Jeanine Anez for stepping up as Interim President of State to lead her nation through this democratic transition,…