The two countries battle increasing forest fires, as temperatures are on the rise again. And the hot weather further continues to spike further, with Portugal expecting temperatures over 40°C (104°F) this week, after a blaze emerged in Mafra, only 25 miles away from Lisbon. 400 firefighters were deployed to extinguish the fire. Similarly, France saw […]
Extreme weather has caused drought, glacier melt, heavy rainfall, deforestation across the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region, recent UN report shows. From the Amazon to the Andes and Patagonia, climate change continues to take its toll, with more and more repercussions for ecosystems, as well as human life, health and wellness. According to
A new study published at the beginning of the month in the journal Water Resources Research shows that torrential rains have become more common nowadays compared to the middle of the last century when global warming first started to intensify. The world is getting rainier because as the climate warms, the atmosphere can hold and
A new report on climate change commissioned by the Canadian Environment and Climate Change Department announced that Canada has been and will continue to warm up twice than the rest of the world. It seems that since 1948, Canada’s average land temperature increased by 1.7 degrees Celsius. The report also noted that the warming of
