Oil, Water, and Climate Change in the Guyana-Suriname Basin – Global Americans

Image: Waves batter a section of Guyana’s “Sea Wall” during a high-spring tide in 2019. Source: Loop News. “Oil don’t ‘spoil!” So once declared Eric Williams, one-time long-standing Prime Minister of oil-rich Trinidad and Tobago. This assertion is undoubtedly true….

Planting trees not core policy on global warming: minister – DAWN.com

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Tuesday said although planting trees was a necessity to reduce environment degradation among other things, it was not, nor could be the core public policy on global warming. Talking to Dawn, Sherry…

NASA climate research scientist wins World Food Prize – ABC News

DES MOINES, Iowa — A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food Prize on Thursday. Cynthia Rosenzweig, an agronomist and…

15 Facts That Prove We Need to Take Climate Action NOW – Global Citizen

Climate change affects everyone in the world, whether it’s hotter summers, wetter rainstorms, harsher natural disasters, or shortages of your favorite food.  That’s because climate change is a planetary phenomenon. As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, more heat from…

How Elon Musk-funded XPRIZE for Carbon Removal is Boosting Innovation – EARTH.ORG

Current CO2 levels in our atmosphere and oceans are a clear sign that the climate crisis is getting out of control. Stopping global warming undoubtedly requires immediate and rapid strategies to reduce emissions. Yet, according to the latest IPCC climate…

Climate change: The impact on health – Medical News Today

The consensus among scientists is that we are in an era of global heating and extreme weather events, primarily due to the devastating effects of human action on the environment. Why are researchers concerned, and what are the implications for…

Earth Day 2022: Celebrate online and in-person

To celebrate Earth Day 2022, NASA and the Earth Day network are hosting various events designed to promote the beauty of planet Earth and how we can protect it.

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Lower growth expected in Latin America due to climate change – Prensa Latina

Despite being one of the regions that contributes least to global warming, estimates by the WB indicate that Latin American countries have lost 1,7% of their annual Gross Domestic Product due to climate-related natural disasters over the last two decades….

Our food system isn’t ready for the climate crisis

We used to eat so many different varieties of corn Maize or corn is now grown in greater volume than any crop in history, and is still the staple food for about 1.2 billion people in Latin America, the Caribbean…

Warming Trends: The Climate Atlas of Canada Maps ‘the Harshities of Life,’ Plus Christians Embracing Climate Change and a New Podcast Called ‘Hot Farm’ – InsideClimate News

CULTURE Canada’s Climate ‘Atlas of Hope’ When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report in February showing that global warming is spinning out of control with waning options for adaptation, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres called it…