Environment/Science
Washington: July 2021 has earned the unenviable distinction as the world’s hottest month ever recorded, according to new global data released today by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. more
‘Near-unlivable’ heat for one-third of humans within 50 years if greenhouse gas emissions are not cut, warns study

Washington : Areas of the planet home to one-third of humans will become as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, unless greenhouse gas emissions fall, according to rese ...

Blueprint launched to manage Earth’s fragile peatland carbon sinks

New York : A blueprint for how countries can keep carbon in fragile land-based carbon sinks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has been unveiled by the UN Food and Agriculture Organizatio ...

UN Youth envoy launches coding competition to help solve climate crisis and ‘Reboot the Earth’

New York, July 23 (IBNS): Can young coders help solve the climate crisis? The UN’s Youth Envoy launched a global competition earlier this month, “Reboot The Earth”, in c ...

UN space-based tool opens new horizons to track land-use on Earth’s surface

New York: Satellite-based tracking to chart how land is being used on the earth’s surface is about to get much easier and more accessible, the UN food agency has announced, launchin ...

Soil pollution ‘jeopardizing’ life on Earth, UN agency warns on World Day

New York: Soil is a “treasure beneath our feet,” essential to human lives and well-being, a senior United Nations official has highlighted, warning, however, that this invalua ...

Planet at risk of heading towards “Hothouse Earth” state

New York: An international team of scientists has published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showing that even if the carbon emission reductions called fo ...

Saturn and Mars team up to make their closest approaches to Earth in 2018

Washington: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has photographed Saturn and Mars near their closest approaches to Earth in June and July 2018, an official release stated.

Earth’s health declining ‘faster than thought’ but action by governments can reverse trend – UN

New York, May 20(Just Earth News): The environment is deteriorating faster than previously thought, making it imperative that governments act now to reverse the worst trends, says the most a ...

Earth's new lightning capital revealed

California, May 3 (IBNS) Earth has a new lightning capital, according to a recent study using observations from the Lightning Imaging Sensor onboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Miss ...