Methane is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures
The intertwining of global warming and plastic pollution has been revealed through a study conducted by researchers in Sweden.
Stay weather-aware in Acadiana this Monday as there will be a low risk for severe weather during the afternoon and evening hours. Mild and breezy conditions start the morning with temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. Scattered showers and storms become likely after the Noon hour as rain chances increase to 70%. A few []
The V-Dem Institute’s new global Democracy Report found that over half the 60 countries holding national elections this year are experiencing democratic decline.
In a letter to Serbian authorities, the International and European Federation of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) joins partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in urging them to address death threats faced by journalists Ana Lalić Hegediš and Dinko Gruhonjić, in Serbia. We are deeply concerned that no decisive action has been taken to conduct a thorough investigation, arrest the perpetrators and provide the journalists with adequate protection.
In the last couple of weeks, terrorists in Nigeria invaded and kidnapped about 300 people, including nursing mothers and children as young as 2 and 5 from schools, a highway and internally displaced peoples camp in Kaduna, Katsina, and other
Global warming has slightly slowed the Earth’s rotation — and it could affect how we measure time. A study published Wednesday found that the melting of polar ice — an accelerating trend driven primarily by human-caused climate change — has caused the Earth to spin less quickly than it would otherwise. The author of the study, Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, said that as ice at the poles melts, it changes where...
By Foo Yun Chee and Supantha Mukherjee BRUSSELS/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Big Tech is facing its biggest challenge in decades as antitrust regulators on both sides of the Atlantic crack down on alleged anti-competitive practices that could result in break-up orders to Apple and Alphabet’s Google, a first for the industry. That in turn could inspire […]
Typically viewed as unrelated problems, global warming and plastic pollution are instead inextricably trapped in a "vicious circle" where one feeds the other, researchers in Sweden report in Nature Communications. The mutually-reinforcing relationship escalates global warming, the degradation of materials, plastic waste and the leaching of toxic chemicals into the biosphere.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Campus police at Washington State University are
Global average sea level rose by about 0.3 inches (0.76 centimeters) from 2022 to 2023
A long-term sea level dataset shows ocean surface heights continuing to rise at faster and faster rates over decades of observations.