Durham, UK: Deep in the Atlantic, a vast circulation of water carries heat from the tropics towards Greenland. This is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc. It does this work largely out of sight, so doesn’t have the public profile of rainforests, polar ice caps or other huge climate-regulating systems. Recent studies suggest it…
BRUSSELS, June 10 (Reuters) – The world has just experienced the second-hottest May since records began, as climate change and the developing El Niño weather pattern conspired to push up average land and sea temperatures, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday. • The hottest May on record was in 2024,…
Today’s ESG Updates China Raises Millions in Green Bonds: China attracted strong investor demand for its latest green bond issuance, with Asia-Pacific buyers accounting for 80% of orders alongside broad international participation. The proceeds will support projects focused on clean energy, pollution control, and climate change mitigation. Factories in Europe Suffer from Iran War: Europe’s…
Hong Kong has launched a new solar farm built on restored landfill in Tseung Kwan O that aims to cut carbon emissions by an amount equivalent to planting about 20,000 trees each year. Jointly developed by environmental services firm Veolia and developers Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) and Citic Pacific, with government support, the facility…
Hong Kong’s M+ museum recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Centre Pompidou in France, cementing a multi-year partnership that will cover collection, research and talent exchanges. This follows the 12 MOUs signed by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority during this year’s International Cultural Summit – bringing its total international partnerships to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are jettisoning their worst and best case scenarios for a warming world as no longer plausible. That shows how modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating but also confirmed that there’s no chance to limit warming to the international goal…
In February, a landmark study in the journal Science delivered rare good news for conservation: a five-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River had halted seven decades of biodiversity near-collapse. Fish biomass has surged, and the critically endangered finless porpoise has begun to rebound. Researchers showed that sustained, collective action can revive an ecosystem. The…
By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — Trees are countering nearly half the urban heating from pavement and buildings in the world’s cities, but they’re not doing enough cooling in hotter, poorer cities where it’s needed the most as the world warms, a new study found. When averaged out over all the world’s cities, tree cover…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trees are countering nearly half the urban heating from pavement and buildings in the world’s cities, but they’re not doing enough cooling in hotter, poorer cities where it’s needed the most as the world warms, a new study found. When averaged out over all the world’s cities, tree cover — by giving…
PARIS, April 24 (Reuters) – France wound up a meeting of G7 environment ministers on Friday defending its “pragmatic” decision to keep climate change off the agenda to avoid a clash with the U.S. U.S. President Donald Trump has dismissed climate change as a hoax despite scientific evidence, and has withdrawn his country from several…