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Bleached branching coral (Acropora sp.) at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Have the world’s coral reefs already crossed a tipping point?
About a year ago, the seas got unusually hot, even by our current, overheated standards. Twelve months of broken records later, the oceans are still more feverish than cl... (photo: Creative Commons / Acropora at English Wikipedia) Grist
Coral Reefs   Environment   Photos   Science  
Pamir Highway, a road traversing the Pamir Mountains through Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia The giant sheep helping Tajikistan weather climate change
In the hills outside the Tajik capital Dushanbe, shepherd Bakhtior Sharipov was watching over his flock of giant Hissar sheep. | The breed, prized for profitability and a... (photo: Creative Commons / Hans Birger Nilsen) Phys Dot Org
Climate change   Photos   Tajikistan   Weather  
A car lies on its side after being knocked over during a tornado that tore through downtown Sulphur, Okla., Sunday, April 28, 2024. Dozens of tornadoes plow central US, at least 5 killed
An exceptional number of tornadoes have ravaged parts of Oklahoma and nearby Great Plains states, leaving at least five dead, authorities and local media said Sunday. | A... (photo: AP / Ken Miller) The Daily Tribune - Bahrain
Extreme Weather   Natural Disaster   Photos   Tornadoes   Wikipedia: Tornado outbreak sequence of April 2528, 2024  
The Colorado River supplies water to more than 40 million people as it snakes through seven U.S. states, including the part of southeastern Utah seen in this photo snapped by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. The Colorado basin was identified in a NASA-led study as a region experiencing intense human water use. NASA-Led Research Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers
NASA & SPACE NEWS | A study led by NASA researchers provides new estimates of how much water courses through Earth’s rivers, the rates at which it flows into the ocean,... (photo: NASA) Space Coast Daily
Environment   NASA   Photos   Science  
22nd Session of Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Indigenous leaders are risking their lives to speak at the UN
This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, High Country News, ICT, Mongabay, Native News Online... (photo: UN / Manuel Elas) Grist
Human Rights   Indigenous   Photos   United Nations  
FILE - Young men cool themselves off in a waterfall in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 14, 2023. July has been so hot so far that scientists calculate that this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat. All the ways a hotter planet makes us sicker
There is scientific consensus that 2023 was the hottest year ever in the planet’s recorded history. It will get progressively worse as this century sweats it out in a s... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed, File) Indian Express
Climate change   Health   Photos   Science  
The ocean is the body of salt water which covers approximately 71% of the surface of the Earth, February 21, 2021. How deep does life go?
Microbial life may be pervasive everywhere beneath Earth’s surface under conditions long thought to be inhospitable, if not fatal. DepositPhotos | This article was orig... (photo: Creative Commons / Unsplash/ Michal Matlon) Popular Science
Environment   Nature   Photos   Science  
In this image taken from NASA video, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough work outside the International Space Station on Sunday, June 20, 2021. NASA Rover Reaches Promising Place to Search for Fossilised Life on Mars
Unlike its predecessor Curiosity, NASA’s Perseverance rover is explicitly intended to “search for potential evidence of past life,” according to the official missio... (photo: AP / NASA) Gizmodo
Mars   NASA   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: NASA  
Residents rest near an area exposed after floods sweep through a village on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Heavy rain and high water levels on rivers in northeastern China were threatening cities downstream on Friday, prompting the evacuation of thousands, although the country appears to have averted the worst effects of the typhoon season battering parts of east Asia. China evacuates over 100,000 as heavy rain continues to lash south
China has evacuated more than 100,000 people as heavy rain continues to lash the southern province of Guangdong. | Authorities raised the highest level of alarm on Tuesda... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan) Al Jazeera
China   Guangdong   Photos   Weather  
Youngsters wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 15, 2024. Lightening and heavy rains killed dozens of people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities declared a state of emergency in the country's southwest following an overnight rainfall to avoid any further casualties and damages. Asia bears biggest climate-change brunt amid extreme weather: WMO
Asia was the region most affected by climate change, weather and water-related hazards globally last year, the United Nations weather agency has said. | In a report publi... (photo: AP / Muhammad Sajjad) Al Jazeera
Climate Change   Extreme Weather   Natural Disaster   Photos   Wikipedia: Climate change  
Ocean pollution is a complex mixture made up of mercury, plastic waste, manufactured chemicals, petroleum wastes, agricultural runoff, and biological threats, like harmful algal blooms, April 3, 2019. Earth Day to raise public’s plastic awareness
Dr Amna Al Dahak. | Gulf Today, Staff Reporter | Dr. Amna Bint Abdullah Al Dahak, Minister of Climate Change and Environment, emphasised Earth Day’s importance as a... (photo: Unsplash / Brian Yurasits) Gulf Today
Climate Change   Emissions   Environment   Photos