Articles

Wat hadden de wereldleiders weer beloofd in 2015 in de Franse hoofdstad? Ze zouden de opwarming van de aarde veroorzaakt door onze uitstoot van broeikasgassen beperken. Tot twee graden en liefst tot anderhalve graad. Daarvoor moesten ze doortastende én rechtvaardige maatregelen nemen. Ze hebben dat niet gedaan. Dat zien we op onze tv-schermen. De bosbranden, overstromingen en hittegolven worden talrijker en heviger. Met veel menselijke slachtoffers en schade voor alle leven op de planeet.

Extreem hoge temperaturen teisteren Noord-Amerika en ook China. In de VS en Canada is sprake van een heat dome of hittekoepel, terwijl Peking een van de warmste dagen van het jaar meemaakt. De overheden hebben waarschuwingen uitgestuurd om zoveel mogelijk binnen te blijven en grote inspanningen te vermijden.

In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report.

Terwijl we nog eens een hittegolf beleven in de Lage Landen, leert het Wereld Meteorologisch Instituut ons dat die, samen met veel te lange droogtes en anderzijds veel te veel water op korte tijd, tot het nieuwe normaal behoren.

The human fingerprint on global warming was likely evident in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than previously thought—even before the invention of modern cars, a new study says. Using a combination of scientific theory, modern observations and multiple, sophisticated computer models, researchers found a clear signal of human-caused climate change was likely discernible with high confidence as early as 1885, just before the advent of gas-powered cars but after the dawn of the industrial revolution.

Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

Major study finds world's most productive farming regions are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, and face steep declines in agricultural output this century.

Mark Lynas has spent decades pushing for action on climate emissions but now says nuclear war is even greater threat Climate breakdown is usually held up as the biggest, most urgent threat humans pose to the future of the planet today. But what if there was another, greater, human-made threat that could snuff out not only human civilisation, but practically the entire biosphere, in the blink of an eye?

“Scholen dagenlang gesloten wegens hittegolf”? In de grote treinstations van het land kon je gisteren de voorpagina’s van de kranten van morgen lezen.

Recent simulations using the Community Earth System Model (CESM) indicate that a tipping event of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would cause Europe to cool by several degrees. This AMOC tipping event was found under constant pre-industrial greenhouse gas forcing, while global warming likely limits this AMOC-induced cooling response. Here, we quantify the European temperature responses under different AMOC regimes and climate change scenarios. A strongly reduced AMOC state and intermediate global warming (C, Representative Concentration Pathway 4.5) has a profound cooling effect on Northwestern Europe with more intense cold extremes. The largest temperature responses are found during the winter months and these responses are strongly influenced by the North Atlantic sea-ice extent. Enhanced North Atlantic storm track activity under an AMOC collapse results in substantially larger day-to-day temperature fluctuations. We conclude that the (far) future European temperatures are dependent o

SO2 declines have contributed ~25% of recent warming and driven recent acceleration. The impact of additional SO2 emissions on cloud formation diminishes as emissions increase, meaning that reductions in SO2 over areas with low background sulphate concentrations, such as the ocean, could result in a proportionately larger warming effect than in highly polluted areas, such as south Asia.

Fifteen years ago, smack in the middle of Barack Obama's first term, amid the rapid rise of social media and a slow recovery from the Great Recession, a professor at the University of Connecticut issued a stark warning: the United States was heading into a decade of growing political instability.

There’s frustration among researchers that falling pH levels in seas around the globe are not being taken seriously enough, and that until the buildup of CO2 is addressed, the consequences for marine life will be devastating

Surpêche, pollution, réchauffement climatique… Face aux menaces qui pèsent sur les océans, il est nécessaire de prendre des mesures concrètes. Mais la rencontre qui s’ouvre lundi 9 juin à Nice, en l’absence de la première puissance maritime mondiale, ne semble guère en capacité de renverser la table.

Rampen hebben in het voorbije decennium 264,8 miljoen mensen op de vlucht gedwongen in 210 landen en gebieden. Stormen en overstromingen zijn veruit de belangrijkste oorzaak, goed voor 89% van de gedwongen verplaatsingen.

La Belgique adhère à la coalition de guerre électronique "Electronic Warfare Coalition", a annoncé mercredi le ministre de la Défense, Theo Francken, à la suite d'une réunion du groupe de contact Défense Ukraine.

Articles curated and summarized by the Environmental Health News' curation team. Some AI-based tools helped produce this text, with human oversight, fact checking and editing.

A new study uncovers Earth’s deep temperature history and shows just how tightly carbon dioxide has always controlled the climate

De wereld dreigt veel meer gletsjers te verliezen door de klimaatopwarming dan tot nu toe werd aangenomen. Dat blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek dat de gevolgen van die opwarming op een langere termijn bekijkt. Dat zal onder andere gevolgen hebben voor de drinkwatervoorziening en de stijging van de zeespiegel. Maar met gericht klimaatbeleid kan het verlies nog ingeperkt worden, benadrukken de wetenschappers.

2024 was the first single year to surpass the 1.5°C global warming threshold – now scientists predict that a year above 2°C is possible in the near future