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Negative impacts of climate change on Afghanistan’s health sector

Source: Pajhwok Climate change has also adversely affected the health sector in Afghanistan and has led to an increase in some diseases. Analysts say that people should be made aware of this issue and the government and the international community should take necessary measures. The Earth’s climate is undergoing rapid transformation. Global warming causes droughts in some regions and triggers severe storms, heavy rainfall and floods in others. Glaciers are melting at alarming

COP30 Is Not Just about Climate

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Next week, COP30 —or the UN Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—returns to my home country of Brazil, in Belém. The UNFCCC is the treaty adopted by most of the world’s countries in 1992 to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations and prevent dangerous human-induced interference with the climate system. Longer ago than I like to think about… I was actually in Brazil for the UN’s C

Combating Climate Disinformation: Three Hopeful Signs as We Head into COP30

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists The US government’s move to enact the fossil fuel industry’s agenda by basing climate and energy policy on official disinformation could cause us to despair. As my colleague Carlos Martinez recently wrote, “99% of the peer-reviewed scientific literature substantiates… human-caused climate change and its impacts.” But apparently, we must keep fighting the same lies, misrepresentations, and mischaracterizations—straight out of the dis

California’s Water Shortage Crisis

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Ask a Scientist: How Do We Solve California’s Water Shortage Crisis? California’s megadrought seems as endless as the Mojave Desert. Between killer heat and growing wildfires, the state experiences some of the harshest effects of climate change. Although California is leading in clean energy policies needed to tackle the worst impacts, water management is still a real problem—for everyone in the country. That’s because the United State

The Role of Nitrogen Pollution in Aggravating South Asia’s Climate Crisis

Source: Factum Over the next few years and decades, South Asia is expected to bear the brunt of climate change. In this Paper, authored by Gothamie Weerakoon, PhD of the United Kingdom and Adnan Remat of Pakistan, we explore potential impacts from nitrogen pollution, one of the leading, most distinct contributors to the climate crisis in the region. A Briefing Paper by Factum: South Asia Nitrogen – Briefing Paper

Climate models show Europe’s severe hail risk may decline – except in the south

Source: Tyndall Centre New high-resolution simulations suggest that while the frequency of severe hailstorms could drop across most of Europe by 2100, southern and Mediterranean regions may face a rise in the largest, most damaging hailstones. Severe hailstorms cause major and costly damage to agriculture, property, and infrastructure. A new study in Nature Communications suggests that by 2100, Europe may see fewer severe hailstorms overall, but a growing risk of the most ext

How to Let Go of the World

By Alberto Sclaverano 2016 How to Let Go of the World (And Love All the Things Climate Can't Change) is a curious climate crisis-themed documentary. It is directed by Josh Fox, a director and environmental activist who received an Academy Award nomination for his 2010 documentary film Gasland , a critique of the excesses of the US drilling activities all around the country, and the damage it has sometimes created to local communities. He produced and starred in How to Let