Category: Environment

Heatwaves across the world are resulting in casualties and reduced crop yields. Global warming or Climate change is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s climate system largely attributed to the excess presence of greenhouse gasses released from human activity. It is generally attributed to a century..

Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that the country has become a “land of drought” as he announced further measures to help stricken farmers. Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian..

The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides. The ban was linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted. In the United States..

South Asia, home to one fifth of the world population, could see humid heat rise to unsurvivable levels by the centurys end if nothing is done to halt global warming, according to a study published in the journal Science advances. Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution..

Research suggests that, since the 1980s, the world’s largest king penguin colony has shrunk nearly 90%. Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time. Global warming is the observed century-scale rise in the average..

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has taken political responsibility on Friday for the deadliest wildfire in the country in a decade. Experts have warned that the disorderly construction of homes in the area has led to poor fire safety. Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country located in Southern Europe…

The world’s tropics face immediate biodiversity collapse unless drastic steps are taken, according to a new study. The study suggests environmental issues are even worse than previously thought..

A partially constructed hydropower dam in southern Laos has collapsed, causing neighbouring villages to flood. Hundreds of people are missing, with an unknown number believed to be dead. Laos, commonly referred to by its colloquial name..

The Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) found widespread use of Chlorofluorocarbons in China. The environmental pressure group has claimed that Chinese factories are illegally using..

President Donald Trump is expected to pull out the United States from the Paris Climate Accord, confirming a giant setback to the agreement on controlling carbon emission. America is the world’s second largest carbon emitter. The Paris deal was signed to cut down global warming. US was one of the 147 out of 197 countries..