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Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes. The world’s wealthiest 10% are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study.

Experts believe H5N1 bird flu belongs in a growing category of infectious diseases that can cause pandemics across many species. But there are ways to reduce the risks..

Olivia Ferrari is a New York City-based freelance journalist with a background in research and science communication. Olivia has lived and worked in the U.K., Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Her writing focuses on wildlife, environmental justice, climate change, and social science.

Global average surface temperatures shattered all-time records in 2023 at 1.45 ± 0.12 ◦C above pre- industrial levels (WMO 2024). Worsened by climate change-induced drought, Canadian wildfires burned 18.5 million hectares, nearly three-times more land area than in any previous year on record (NRC 2023).

Dans le puits d’Asse II du côté de Bruswick (centre de l’Allemagne) du chlorure de potassium a été extrait et du sel gemme de 1916 à 1964. L’extraction de sel a cessé en 1964. En 1965, le gouvernement fédéral a acheté la mine abandonnée pour l’utiliser comme centre de stockage de déchets nucléaires. La suite ? Un désastre... Un laboratoire bidon pour des bidons réels Officiellement, il s’agissait seulement d’un essai (d’enfouissement irréversible de déchets nucléaires)

La prolongation du fonctionnement des réacteurs existants nucléaires? repousser la fin de vie a toujours un prix, et peut s’avérer être un jeu dangereux. Les réacteurs nucléaires français arriveront tous en fin de vie entre 2020 et 2040. À moins de miser sur la prolongation. Ce que EDF estime tout à fait jouable malgré des composants non-remplaçables, un vieillissement accéléré et l’apparition de phénomènes non anticipés.

The signs of weakening resilience raise concerns that the world’s greatest tropical forest – and biggest terrestrial carbon sink – is degrading towards a point of no return. It follows four supposedly “one-in-a-century” dry spells in less than 20 years, highlighting how a human-disrupted climate is putting unusually intense strains on trees and other plants, many of which are dying of dehydration.

The world is currently seeing the fastest-spreading, largest-ever outbreak of H5N1, a highly contagious, deadly strain of avian influenza. Scientists say this virus now presents an existential threat to the world’s biodiversity, with the risk to humans rising as it continues to leap the species barrier, reaching new host species.

De hele mensheid profiteert van Antarctica en de oceaan die het continent omringt, schrijven Natalie Stoeckl en Rachel Baird, hoogleraren aan de Universiteit van Tasmanië. Een schatting van de economische waarde kan volgens hen een goede motivatie zijn voor de bescherming van dit unieke ecosysteem.

Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

Study highlights conflict between Washington’s claims of climate leadership and its fossil fuel growth plans

The predicted El Niño is a worry, but it doesn’t guarantee the record-breaking heat we’re seeing in parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Marine biologist Bill Montevecchi is ranked in the top two per cent of the world's scientists. While researching the foraging tactics and migratory ecology of seabirds, he has witnessed how the avian flu is killing off seabird colonies in Newfoundland and beyond — and warns something needs to be done.

Avian flu has decimated the marine creatures on the country’s Pacific coastline and scientists fear it could be jumping from mammal to mammal

L'armée ukrainienne peut compter sur le soutien des Magyar Birds pour lutter contre la Russie.