Supreme Court under fire after “devastating” climate ruling

2022-07-04T09:08+0200newsnow-co-uk (en)

A week after the US Supreme Court caused outrage over its decision in the Roe V Wade abortion law case, it has further enraged President Joe Biden after it curbed the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to drive its climate change agenda.

Posts by Peoples Daily

2022-06-28T13:15+0200peoplesdaily-online (en)

Bridging the yawning gap between the North and the South (Developed and Developing Countries) in terms of human development Index has been the major pre-occupation of the Secretary – General of United Towns Agency (UTA) for North – South. By Tobias Lengnan Dapam In its determination to address the....

Cesetti: "Agricoltura al tappeto, quali misure?"

2022-06-21T06:40+0200ilrestodelcarlino (it)

L’agricoltura è in ginocchio, la stagione straordinariamente calda e la mancanza di pioggia stanno mettendo a dura prova le aziende marchigiane. A dirlo è il consigliere regionale del Partito Democratico, Fabrizio Cesetti, che ha depositato un’interrogazione al presidente Francesco Acquaroli,....

Siccità: Pellicani (Pd), governo dichiari stato d’emergenza

2022-06-17T10:35+0200agenparl (it)

(AGENPARL) – ven 17 giugno 2022 Ufficio Stampa Gruppo Partito Democratico per approfondimenti consultare il nostro sito: www.deputatipd.it Siccità: Pellicani (Pd), governo dichiari stato d’emergenza “Da diversi mesi la situazione nel Nord Italia è drammatica.

Scorching temperatures topping 110 degrees to sweep across southwestern US

2022-06-09T11:24+0200dailymail (en)

The forecast comes under two weeks after California Governor Gavin Newsom has threatened to enact mandatory water restrictions on the population, as the state's water usage spiked amid the worst drought condition in at least a century. The West Coast state usually receives most of its annual rain....

Arriva Scipione, l'anticiclone africano con valori fino a 40°C, cresce l'allarme siccità

2022-05-31T10:09+0200247libero (it)

Con l’innalzamento dei livelli del mare l’acqua salata – aggiunge Coldiretti Puglia – sta già penetrando nell’entroterra bruciando le coltivazioni nei campi e spingendo all’abbandono l’attività agricola secondo l’allarme lanciato dal rapporto sul clima del Gruppo Intergovernativo sul Cambiamento Climatico (Ipcc) dell’Onu.

Welcome To America’s Summer Of Rolling Blackouts

2022-05-30T15:28+0200climatechangedispatch (en)

Summer is around the corner, and we suggest you prepare by buying an emergency generator—if you can find one in stock. Last week the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned that this summer. Welcome to the “green energy transition.

America’s Summer of Rolling Blackouts

2022-05-28T01:12+0200wsj-en (en)

Progressives blame the grid problems on climate change. There’s no doubt that drought in the western U.S. is a contributing factor. NERC’s report notes that hydropower generators in the western U.S. are running at lower levels, and output from thermal (i.e.

2021 sees record numbers displaced globally and in Myanmar

2022-05-20T09:55+0200bnionline (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

2021 sees record numbers displaced globally and in Myanmar

2022-05-20T08:02+0200mizzima (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

Nearly 60 million people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-20T04:07+0200citizen (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 — an all-time record....

60m people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-20T03:10+0200thenews-pk (en)

GENEVA: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an....

Nearly 60 mil people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-20T00:05+0200japantoday (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

MIL-OSI USA: Stansbury, Heinrich, Luján, Owens, Lee, Lawmakers Introduce Landmark Bipartisan Water Security and Drought Package

2022-05-19T20:57+0200foreignaffairs-nz (en)

WASHINGTON— As the worst drought in 1,200 years grips communities across the West and wildfires continue to burn across the state of New Mexico, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) announced a bipartisan, bicameral legislative package to address drought and water security across the United States.

Nearly 60m internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T20:07+0200omanobserver-om (en)

GENEVA: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time....

60m people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T19:32+0200newagebd (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 an all-time record....

PH high on list of displacements due to disasters

2022-05-19T19:05+0200manilastandard-ph (en)

The Philippines had one of the highest numbers of internal displacements due to natural disasters in 2021, with Typhoon Odette resulting in the largest number of disaster displacements of the year worldwide, according to a joint report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Nearly 60m people million internally displaced last year

2022-05-19T18:45+0200taipeitimes (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said yesterday. About 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide last year — an all-time record....

'Nearly 60M people internally displaced in 2021'

2022-05-19T18:07+0200manilatimes (en)

GENEVA: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people (IDP) to a record high, monitors said on Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021, an....

Nearly 60m people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T15:29+0200parstoday-en (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 an all-time record....

Philippines among nations with most disaster-related internal displacements in 2021 --report

2022-05-19T13:35+0200gmanews (en)

The Philippines had one of the highest numbers of internal displacements due to natural disasters in 2021, with Typhoon Odette resulting in the largest number of disaster displacements of the year worldwide, according to a joint report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Nearly 60 Mn People Internally Displaced Worldwide Last Year

2022-05-19T13:03+0200aawsat (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

Nearly 60 million people internally displaced in 2021

2022-05-19T12:34+0200manilastandard-ph (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 – an all-time record....

Nearly 60 million displaced people worldwide in 2021, a record figure

2022-05-19T11:57+0200tellerreport (en)

The number of displaced people around the world has reached a record high. Conflicts and natural disasters forced millions of people to flee within their own country last year, bringing the total number of displaced people to nearly 60 million, according to a study released Thursday, May 19 by NGOs. Internally displaced people numbered 59.

Nearly 60 million people displaced in 2021 by conflict and natural disaster

2022-05-19T11:51+0200infomigrants (en)

Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record expected to be broken again this year amid mass displacement inside war-torn Around 38 million new internal displacements were reported in 2021, with some people forced to flee multiple times....

Nearly 60-M people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T11:34+0200abs-cbnnews (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

Nearly 60m people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T11:05+0200enca (en)

PARIS - Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time....

Nearly 60 million people displaced in 2021 by conflict and natural disaster

2022-05-19T10:58+0200newsnow-co-uk (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

Nearly 60 mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T10:50+0200abs-cbnnews (en)

GENEVA Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time....

Nearly 60 million people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T10:02+0200timesofmalta (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 - an all-time record....

Nearly 60 million people internally displaced worldwide in 2021 – timesofmalta.com

2022-05-19T09:53+0200unravelmalta (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 – an all-time record....

Nearly 60 million people forced to flee homes in 2021

2022-05-19T09:49+0200RTERadio (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said today. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 - an all-time record....

Conflicts, disasters displaced 60mn people within their countries in 2021

2022-05-19T09:31+0200thedailystarBD (en)

"2022 is looking bleak," IDMC director Alexandra Bilak told reporters. The record numbers seen in 2021, she said, marked "a tragic indictment really on the state of the world and on peace-building efforts in particular". NRC chief Jan Egeland agreed, warning: "It has never been as bad as this." "The world is falling apart," he told reporters.

Nearly 60mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T09:23+0200thehindu (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions of people to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on May 19. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 — an all-time....

Nearly 60 mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T09:21+0200BangkokPost (en)

GENEVA: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time....

59 Million Displaced Globally, Conflicts And Calamities To Blame: Report

2022-05-19T08:57+0200ndtvnews (en)

Geneva: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time....

Nearly 60 mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T08:49+0200al-monitor (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

19/05/2022 Nearly 60 mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T08:45+0200rfi-en (en)

Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record expected to be broken again this year amid mass displacement inside war-torn Ukraine. Around 38 million new internal displacements were reported in 2021, with some people forced to flee multiple....

Nearly 60 mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T08:37+0200digitaljournal (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 — an all-time record....

Nearly 60 million people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T08:34+0200moneycontrol (en)

Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 -- an all-time record....

Nearly 60mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021

2022-05-19T08:33+0200brecorder (en)

GENEVA: Conflicts and natural disasters forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, pushing the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 – an all-time....

Over 59M people internally displaced around globe in 2021

2022-05-19T08:22+0200dailysabah (en)

Tens of millions of people were forced to flee as a result of conflicts and natural disasters, setting a record in 2021, monitors said Thursday. Some 59.1 million people were registered as internally displaced worldwide in 2021 – an all-time record expected to be broken again this year amid mass displacement inside war-torn Ukraine.

UN adds Pakistan to list of drought-hit ...

2022-05-16T12:19+0200dailypakistan (en)

NEW YORK The United Nations has placed Pakistan in the list of 23 countries facing drought related emergencies in last two years (2020-2022). The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has issued the 'Global Land Outlook' report as world set to mark the UN Desertification and Drought Day on June 17.

Everybody’s problem is drought’: One in four children could live with water shortages in 2040, UN warns

2022-05-11T15:02+0200independent-UK (en)

risk has increased by 29 per cent in the past twenty years — and the climate crisis threatens to make water shortage issues even worse, warns a new United Nations report. Drought is a global problem, but sub-Saharan Africa , southern Asia, Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America are especially....

New Hazard Exposure Model for Africa

2022-03-31T14:09+0200eos (en)

The rapid pace of urbanization could encroach on hazard-prone regions without adequate land management and building design regulations, a new modeling project shows. The 4 million residents of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are exposed to moderately high seismicity given their proximity to the East African Rift System, a new risk model reveals.

Deforestation in Africa

2022-03-24T10:08+0100earth-org (en)

26% of land in Africa is classified as forest and the continent is home to nearly 43 billion trees, the majority of which are found in South Africa, Ethiopia and Nigeria. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) , nearly 4 million hectares of African forests are being cut down....

Madagascar, vittima dell’ingiustizia climatica

2022-03-15T18:23+0100ilgiornaledellambiente (it)

I cambiamenti climatici continuano a essere causa di gravi disastri ambientali, come quelli che si sono verificati in Madagascar . Nell’isola, infatti, solo tra gennaio e febbraio, si sono abbattuti violente tempeste tropicali e ben due cicloni. Alla fine di gennaio circa 21mila persone sono rimaste....

Morning mail: Russia faces unprecedented sanctions, worst flooding in history, IPCC warns on climate crisis

2022-02-28T21:15+0100guardian (en)

G ood morning. Today marks the fifth day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as countries and companies around the world boycott Russia. In Australia, more rain is set to prolong devastating floods in south-east Queensland, and the UN releases its latest and “bleakest warning yet” on climate impacts.

Luanda vende sua partecipazione in Mota-Engil Angola

2022-02-17T09:45+0100infoafrica (it)

MOZAMBICO – Maputo ha firmato un memorandum di intesa con l'Agenzia per la cooperazione internazionale della Corea del Sud per la modernizzazione del sistema di allerta per inondazioni che ciclicamente colpiscono il paese, con gravi conseguenze per popolazione e imprese.

Emerging climate-fueled megadrought in western US rivals any in past 1,200 years: study

2022-02-15T17:05+0100alternet (en)

The megadrought which has gripped western U.S. states including California and Arizona over the past two decades has been made substantially worse by the human-caused climate crisis, new research shows, resulting in the region's driest period in about 1,200 years.

Climate crisis has made western US megadrought worst in 1,200 years

2022-02-15T13:27+0100nationofchange (en)

The megadrought which has gripped western U.S. states including California and Arizona over the past two decades has been made substantially worse by the human-caused climate crisis, new research shows, resulting in the region’s driest period in about 1,200 years.

Ue assicura sostegno nella lotta al terrorismo

2022-02-11T07:32+0100infoafrica (it)

SUDAFRICA – Il presidente Cyril Ramaphosa ha avviato la fine del monopolio di Eskom nella vendita di elettricità, con la pubblicazione in Gazzetta degli emendamenti alla legge sull’elettricità che consentono il commercio e la rivendita di energia tra operatori privati.

Msf, al via stagione cicloni in contesto di crisi

2022-02-10T23:59+0100infoafrica (it)

SUDAFRICA – Il presidente Cyril Ramaphosa ha avviato la fine del monopolio di Eskom nella vendita di elettricità, con la pubblicazione in Gazzetta degli emendamenti alla legge sull’elettricità che consentono il commercio e la rivendita di energia tra operatori privati.

Dramatic consequences of the climate crisis – the desert is growing

2021-12-23T15:44+0100california18 (en)

Children used to swim in this pool of water. That must have been a nice cool down here in the desert in western Iraq. An underground spring has been feeding the basin and supplying the Rahalija oasis with water for centuries. The residents need it for their households and the palm trees on which they live.

Drought: What must happen next

2021-12-03T13:55+0100theCitizen (en)

Every few years, it is devastating to watch the same tragedy: a weather cycle that brings debilitating drought and hunger to East Africa, threatening the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya. The weather cycle responsible for these episodes is a climate-change-enhanced “La Niña”.

¿Cambio climático? Los últimos 5 años han sido los más cálidos de la historia

2021-11-26T00:54+0100ahoranoticiasandalucia (es)

Las evidencias científicas siguen mostrando año a año los efectos que la crisis climática está teniendo en el mundo: retroceso de los hielos, subidas del nivel del mar sin precedentes a escala mundial, calentamiento de los océanos, ciclones tropicales más intensos, desertificación, etc.