Anne Hoggett, who has been diving for decades near the Great Barrier in northeastern Australiaconfirms, with fury, the massive bleaching of corals caused by the climate change. “It makes me angry to know that we have the power to prevent it and we don’t do anything fast enough,” underlines this marine biologist who, for thirty-three […]
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The world suffers a new massive episode of coral bleaching
The world suffers a massive episode of bleaching corals due to record temperatures oceans, The US Oceanic and Atmospheric Observation Agency (NOAA) warned this Monday. For the second time in ten years, coral reefs around the world are affected by a major bleaching phenomenon linked to rising water temperatures, and parts of Australia’s Great Barrier […]
Climate change will increase inequality between Mediterranean European regions and others
He climate change will increase inequalities between the regions of the European Union and will especially affect those of the Mediterranean, the coasts and the East, according to a report from the European Comission published this Wednesday. The ninth Brussels Cohesion Report reviews the progress made to reduce gaps both between regions and between EU […]
Baltÿa, the giant Galapagos tortoise named by the EU
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Baltÿa is the name that a giant tortoise received this Thursday. Galapagos barely a year old, baptized and sponsored by the commissioner of EnvironmentOceans and Fisheries European Union (EU)the Lithuanian Virginijus Sinkevicius. As part of his tour of South America, which included visits to Paraguay, Bolivia and Ecuador, Sinkevicius arrived this Thursday at the Ecuadorian […]
UN warns of strong growth of electronic waste in the world
A report from the Institute of Studies of the UN based in Bonn (west of Germany) warns of strong growth in the generation of electronic trash around the world with serious implications for the global south. According to the report, 53.6 billion tons of electronic waste were produced in 2019 – 7.3 kilograms per capita […]
Coral plantation manages to recover a reef in just four years
Planting new corals on degraded reefs can achieve rapid recovery of these ecosystems: A study has proven that restored corals grow as fast as healthy ones and perform the same functions just four years after being placed. This has been demonstrated by an experiment carried out on the southern reef of Sulawesi (Indonesia) reported this […]
Boat designed to hunt seals, now seeks to protect marine fauna
The Arctic Sunrise, one of the environmental organization’s ships Greenpeacewhich first came to Ecuador for a scientific mission in the Galapagos Islands, left behind its dark past as a ship designed for hunt of seals in the 70s and now sails in a tireless campaign to protect the oceans and all their biodiversity. With half […]
Global energy-related CO2 emissions hit new record in 2023
The global emissions of carbon dioxide Energy-related investments increased by 1.1% in 2023 to reach a new record, especially due to the fall in hydroelectric production due to droughts, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Friday. These emissions, which represent around 90% of those caused by man, increased by 410 million tons and reached […]
The volume of waste in the world will continue to grow, warns the UN
The volume of waste in the world, which in 2023 was 2.3 billion tons, could increase by more than 60% in 2050 if urgent measures are not taken and have serious health and economic impacts, warned on Wednesday the UN. At this rate, current waste (excluding industrial and construction waste) is expected to reach 3.8 […]
Heat in the Atlantic and little ice in the Antarctic herald a warmer world
The high temperatures in the North Atlantic and record lows in the number of ice in it Antartic Ocean observed last year are much more severe than what would supposedly occur on Earth at current levels of warming. They are more like what happens with double the current warming, according to a new study. The […]