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BRUSSELS: Europe experienced its second-warmest year on record in 2022, European Union scientists said on Tuesday, as climate change unleashed record-breaking weather extremes that slashed crop yields, dried up rivers and led to thousands of deaths. The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said 2022 was also the ...

#Pakistan News A wave of unusually warm weather has swept Europe in recent days with 2023 already posting "extreme" record-high winter temperatures for January across the continent, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices. Hundreds ...

Extreme weather events are becoming more prevalent with each passing year and countries are increasingly taking cognisance of this. Yet, there remains a rift between developing and developed countries, largely on account of asymmetries between the incidence of and the financial responsibility assumed for climate change. It is estimated ...

Negotiators from around the world salvaged climate talks from the brink of collapse late on Saturday, sealing a historic agreement on creating a “loss and damage” (L&D) fund to help vulnerable nations deal with the impact of global warming, a key victory for developing countries after days of hard ...

Last week, the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) was held in Sharm-El-Sheik in Egypt. The delegates had gathered to discuss ways of mitigating environmental degradation and stopping a climate catastrophe from taking place. Delegates from 197 countries, all of whom are a part of the ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Earth’s warming weather and rising seas are getting worse and doing so faster than before, the World Meteorological Organization warned Sunday in a somber note as world leaders started gathering for international climate negotiations.“The latest State of the Global Climate report is a chronicle ...

#Pakistan News Climate change is already playing a role in disrupting the global food systems – floods, droughts and heatwaves batter harvests from Europe to Asia and famine in the Horn of Africa. In addition, millions are tipped to fall into hunger and poverty after crises linked to war, ...

#Pakistan News The Red Cross and the United Nations warned on Monday that heat waves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, as they urged people and governments to do more to beat the heat by preparing ...

ANKARA The world witnessed several unexpected environmental developments and disasters in August, including deadly floods and landslides in Pakistan; a hailstorm in Spain, torrential rains in northern Nigeria and wildfires in Russia, France and the US.Below is a timeline compiled by Anadolu Agency:Aug. 1:- A wildfire grows to become the ...

ISLAMABAD — Global warming is likely to have played a role in the devastating floods that hit Pakistan, say scientists.Researchers from the World Weather Attribution group say climate change may have increased the intensity of rainfall.However there were many uncertainties in the results, so the team was unable to ...