News roundup for 8 August 2022 – Climate impacts have worsened vast range of human diseases – “Forever chemicals” have made rainwater “unsafe to drink” globally
Global greenhouse gas emissions, 1990-2020. The reduction in emissions in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and global recession was ten times greater than the impact on emissions from the 2008 global financial crisis. Graphic: Rhodium Group By Alfredo Rivera,...
Aerial view of flooding in Kingfisher, Oklahoma on 21 May 2019. Photo: Bloomberg By Denitsa Tsekova and Brian K. Sullivan 1 July 2019 (Bloomberg) – After suffering through the wettest 12 months since at least 1895, U.S. farmers have plans...
Average daily CO2 emissions from 5 February 2020 to 6 May 2020 (red area) and average of the previous years during the same period (grey area) for three European cities. The dark grey horizontal bars cover periods of official lockdown,...