Landsat images from 21 February 2000 (left) and 27 July 2019 (right) illustrating glacier retreat on top of Mount Kilimanjaro (United Republic of Tanzania). Photo: U.S. Geological Survey

Kilimanjaro’s and Africa’s last glaciers to go by 2050, says UN – “What is quite unprecedented in the historical record is how quickly this is happening”

By Patrick Hughes 3 November 2022 (BBC News) – Glaciers across the globe – including the last ones in Africa – will be unavoidably lost by 2050 due to climate change, the UN says in a report [UNESCO finds that some iconic World Heritage glaciers will disappear by 2050 –Des]. Glaciers in a third of […]

World corn stocks in consumption days, 2008-2022 and projected to 2023. Poor weather in key agricultural regions from the United States to France and China is shrinking grain harvests and cutting inventories, heightening the risk of famine in some of the world's poorest nations. Data: International Grains Council. Graphic: Prinz Magtulis / Reuters

Droughts, Ukraine war push global grain stocks toward worrying decade low – “It’s lining up to be like 2012. No one wants to admit it, but it’s true.”

By Tom Polansek 26 September 2022 CHICAGO (Reuters) – The world is heading toward the tightest grain inventories in years despite the resumption of exports from Ukraine, as the shipments are too few and harvests from other major crop producers are smaller than initially expected, according to grain supply and crop forecast data. Poor weather […]

Daily surface air temperature anomaly for July 2022 relative to the daily average for the period 1991–2020. Data: ERA5. Graphic: Copernicus Climate Change Service / ECMWF

Europe’s hot summer of 2022 shatters records – “We’ve not only had record August temperatures for Europe but also for summer, with the previous summer record only being one year old”

By Matt McGrath 8 September 2022 (BBC News) – This summer was the hottest on record in Europe, according to data from EU satellite monitoring. A series of extreme heatwaves and a long running drought saw June, July and August shatter the previous high mark for temperature. The Copernicus Climate Change Service said the data showed August […]

Satellite view of Europe in Summer 2021 and Summer 2022. In 2022, drought affected the whole of Europe. Photo: Copernicus EU

Satellite view shows Europe drying out in the drought of Summer 2022

By Ed Browne 7 September 2022 (Newsweek) – Scientists have released images of Europe from space that show just how arid the landscape has become as part of what may be the region’s worst drought in 500 years. Europe, like large swathes of the United States, is currently in the grip of extraordinary drought conditions that are […]

The emissions reduction targets publicly disclosed by European companies are now aligned with a 2.4°C decarbonization pathway, or 2.2°C if corporate Scope 3 emissions (value chain) are excluded. Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands — all with targets that support 2.2°C — have the best-performing corporate sectors, inclusive of all value-chain emissions. However, despite this progress, the average temperature ratings for corporates remain well above 1.5°C across all major European economies. Data: CDP data, Oliver Wyman analysis. Graphic: CDP

G7 company emissions falling short of global climate goal, study shows – “As we approach COP27, we must get our 1.5°C goal off life support”

By Juliette Portala 6 September 2022 (Reuters) – Companies in the Group of Seven (G7) economies are failing to meet Paris Climate Agreement objectives, non-profit disclosure platform CDP and global management consultancy Oliver Wyman said on Tuesday, based on current corporate pledges to cut emissions. [Missing the Mark: 2022 analysis of global CDP temperature ratings […]

Children use rafts to make their way along a waterlogged street in a residential area after a heavy monsoon rainfall in Hyderabad on 24 August 2022. Record monsoon rains were causing a “catastrophe of epic scale”, Pakistan's Climate Change Minister said August 24, announcing an international appeal for help in dealing with floods that have killed more than 800 people since June 2022. Photo: Akram SHAHID / AFP

Sleepwalking to destruction: World struck by relentless climate catastrophes – “We just would not get temperatures as high as we’ve seen without human-caused climate change”

By Nick O’Malley 3 September 2022 (The Sydney Morning Herald) – Authorities are having difficulties finding the words to properly capture the devastation caused by the floods that have swept across Pakistan in recent days, killing more than 1400 people and displacing up to 50 million as water inundates about a third of the country. […]

A firefighter adjusts his helmet as he stands guard to monitor a fire near Saint-Magne, southwestern France on 11 August 2022. Photo: Philippe Lopez / AFP

Will the summer of 2022 hasten France’s efforts to fight climate change? – “The summer of 2022 is probably the coolest you have experienced or will experience in the next 20 years”

4 September 2022 (France24) – The summer of 2022 was a record-breaking season, marked by several heatwaves, forest fires, and severe drought. These extreme weather events seem to have increased awareness of climate change among the French. But will it be followed by concrete action? Heatwaves, fires, drought, violent storms… The summer of 2022 broke […]

The dried-up river Tille in Lux, France in 2022. Photo: Nicholas Garriga / Associated Press

Europe was once green and water-rich. Now, it’s more and more like California – “Climate change kills. It kills people, kills our ecosystem, the biodiversity.”

By Jaweed Kaleem and Scott Johnson 4 September 2022 (Los Angeles Times) – Each spring and summer, Frederic Esniol plants millions of seeds for lettuce sold at big grocery chains, making his family farm a jewel of this historically bountiful region of France. But this year, a menacing combination of dry skies and record-setting heat […]

A British police officer stands guard on the beach of Dungeness, England, on 15 June 2022, as Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) staff help migrants disembark from one of their lifeboats. Photo: Ben Stansall / AFP / Getty Images

Migrants crossing English Channel hit new 24-hour record – Nearly 1,300 people detected crossing from France in small boats in one day

 23 August 2022 (DW) – The British Defense Ministry has said nearly 1,300 people were detected crossing from France in small boats in a day. Nearly 23,000 people have made the crossing this year alone. The UK Defense Ministry has noted a substantial increase in the amount of people crossing the English Channel British authorities […]

Firefighters embrace as they work to contain a fire in Saint-Magne, as wildfires continue to spread in the Gironde region of southwestern France, 11 August 2022. Stephane Mahe / REUTERS

Drought in England, fires rage in France as heatwave persists

By Stephane Mahe and Manuel Ausloos 13 August 2022 SAINT-MAGNE, France (Reuters) – Firefighters from across Europe came to France’s rescue on Friday to battle a massive wildfire, while fire also raged in Portugal and parts of England faced a severe drought, as successive heatwaves renewed the focus on climate change risks. Much of Europe […]

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