Global warming

We wonder, sometimes, why people don't care about what's going on in the world around them or why they're happy to get their information by running their finger down their phone's screen every once in a while; why they mistake scrolling for actually being informed. The media cannot deny that it is partly to blame. 

Maritime nations including Denmark and the Marshall Islands are rallying support for a global carbon dioxide emissions levy on shipping, with talks at a critical stage ahead of a UN agency meeting next month that could back the measure.

Europe's summer last year was the hottest on record and caused thousands of deaths, a joint report by World Meteorological Organization and European Union scientists confirmed, while warning that such events could become more routine.

Experts warn that many regions in Greece will become unfit for viticulture by 2050 due to climate change. Indeed, if the climate crisis worsens by the end of the century, few vineyards will remain, primarily in higher-altitude locations. 

Environmental campaigners urged climate envoys from dozens of nations gathering Tuesday in Berlin to discuss a global deadline for phasing out fossil fuels and ways of increasing aid to poor countries hit by global warming.

The world's oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming.

European Union countries on Tuesday finally approved the biggest-ever reform of Europe's carbon emissions market, which will make pollution more expensive and strengthen the 27-member bloc's main tool for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, Reuters reported.

The climate crisis has been in the spotlight of the first day of the 12th Africa Day international conference at Brdo pri Kranju. Promoting its bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, Slovenia said that, if elected, it would aim to step up climate security, as African officials urged global action against climate change.

Photographer Thalassini Douma sounds the alarm about climate change with a show at the Herakleidon Museum (herakleidon-gr.org), curated by marine biologist Nina Fragopoulou and art historian Manolis Karterakis. "Below Sea Level" is the result of an expedition to the Dead Sea, a special marine ecosystem where the effects of human intervention and global warming are seen in stark relief. 

Humanity still has a chance, close to the last, to prevent the worst of climate change's future harms, a top United Nations panel of scientists have said.