Posts Tagged ‘Climate’
‘Girl With A Pearl Earring’ Targeted By Climate Activists
Dutch police arrested three people after climate activists targeted “Girl with a Pearl Earring” Climate activists glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” at a Dutch museum on Thursday in the latest stunt targeting famous artworks, but the painting was undamaged. Three people were arrested after the attack at The Hague’s Mauritshuis…
Read MoreAustralia’s Coles Flags Climate Challenge As Floods Push Up Inflation
People walk past a Coles supermarket following the easing of restrictions implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Sydney, Australia, June 17, 2020. Australian No. 2 grocer Coles Group Ltd flagged climate change as its next big operational challenge on Wednesday as floods pushed up prices in the first quarter, lifting…
Read MoreGlobal Climate Disclosures To Cover Full Gamut Of Carbon Emissions
A child runs as climate change activists gather to protest outside of BlackRock headquarters ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in San Francisco, California, U.S., October 29, 2021. Planned new global corporate sustainability disclosures will include the full range of carbon emissions, but with ‘relief provisions’ on measuring greenhouse gas discharges…
Read MoreClimate Activists Throw Soup Over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ In London
The gallery said protesters caused ‘minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed’ Environmental protesters threw tomato soup over one of Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” paintings at London’s National Gallery on Friday, in the latest “direct-action” stunt targeting works of art. The gallery in Trafalgar Square said the protesters caused “minor damage to…
Read MoreUS Releases New Arctic Strategy As Climate Threat Grows
Icebergs float in Baffin Bay near Pituffik, Greenland in July 2022 US President Joe Biden’s administration released a new Arctic strategy on Friday as the strategically and environmentally important region suffers worsening effects from climate change and sees increased international competition. Global warming is melting Arctic ice, opening previously closed areas to navigation and creating…
Read MoreClimate Change Made 2022 Drought ‘At Least 20 Times Likelier’
Producers in Europe and China have warned of significantly lower than expected harvests in crop staples due to the dry spell Human-caused climate change made this summer’s drought across the Northern Hemisphere at least 20 times more likely, according to a rapid analysis released Wednesday that warns such extreme dry periods will become increasingly common…
Read MoreAfrican Climate Summit Opens In DR Congo
Devastating floods hit northeast Nigeria in September 2022 Environment ministers from about 50 countries will gather in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday for a “pre-COP27” climate summit, with rich nations likely to come under pressure to raise spending to combat climate change. The talks in the DRC’s capital, Kinshasa, are informal but meant…
Read MoreKing Charles To Skip UN’s COP27 Climate Change Conference; Twitter Reacts
KEY POINTS Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles III will not attend the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Egypt next month The monarch reportedly abandoned plans to attend the summit on the advice of U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss Charles delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year King Charles…
Read MoreNobel Peace Prize Could Condemn Ukraine War Or Highlight Climate Change
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during an interview with Reuters, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine September 16, 2022. This year’s Nobel Peace Prize could condemn the war in Ukraine by recognising opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the volunteers who have helped civilians, or Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who ranks high on…
Read MoreGas Flares Vastly Underperform, Causing Greater Climate Impact: Study
Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin in 2015 Flaring — burning off unwanted natural gas from oil and gas wells — releases five times more of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere over the United States than previously assumed,…
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