Coral reefs around the world are struggling due to the rising sea temperature caused by climate change. For example, half of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has died in twenty years. The largest coral reef in the world has now become a “second-class reef”, coral researcher Ronald Osinga told NU.nl on Thursday. Australian researchers … Read more
British Prince William creates an international environmental award worth GBP 50 million. Five prizes worth £ 1 million will be awarded over the next ten years. – “We only have ten years to save the planet,” said the Instagram account of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. They call it … Read more
Natural gas has been fully on the political agenda in recent years. We immediately think of earthquakes, and now also of the climate. But another gas discussion is hardly conducted in the Netherlands: the role that gas can play in potential conflicts. Via a detour – the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny … Read more
With water becoming scarcer, it could soon be traded on the Chicago Stock Exchange. It will be the first to launch a ‘water prize’ this year. What exactly does that mean? Why would anyone want to invest in water? And should we want that? – 1 Will it really be possible to invest in the … Read more
Freiburg (dpa / lsw) – In an incident during the Freiburg climate protest, a participant in the demonstration was seriously injured on Friday. According to the police, another person suffered minor injuries when a tent was raised by a gust of wind. The two participants were injured when the tent fell back to the ground … Read more
The government of Poland has reached an agreement with unions in the country on the closure of the coal mines. Extraction in those mines will be phased out step by step until 2049, it has been agreed. – Poland still generates most of its energy from coal. Partly because of this dependence on the polluting … Read more
David Attenborough can be found on Instagram since yesterday. He wants to disseminate information about the climate crisis through his account. – The 94-year-old presenter and voice of nature documentaries from the BBC for sixty years has been on Instagram since Thursday. After just 21 hours, he already had more than 2.4 million followers. His … Read more
The amount of sea ice left over from summer this year is the second smallest amount ever, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). That point was reached a week ago. – In total, 3.74 million square kilometers of ice floated in the polar seas at the time, a difference of … Read more
The richest 1 percent of the world is responsible for more than double the CO2 emissions of the 3.1 billion poorest people in the world, according to a report by aid organization on Monday. Oxfam Novib. The report examines the CO2 emissions of various income groups between 1990 and 2015. The richest 63 million people … Read more
During his visit to Sacramento, the capital of California, the US president pushed for better forest management. The state is ravaged by forest fires and good forest management is the solution, according to the president. Global warming has nothing to do with it, ‘because it will start to get cooler’, it said. – “It’s one … Read more