Un asustado oso hormiguero "se rindió" con las patas en alto ante los bomberos

2023-09-29T16:20+0200clarin (es)

Un asustado oso hormiguero “se rindió” con las patas en alto ante los bomberos El cómico hecho se produjo durante un incendio forestal en Brasil. El animalito fue rescatado por los bomberos y luego liberado en la selva. Cuando los bomberos combatían un incendio en Ipueiras, Brasil, en 2020,....

Brasil enfrenta severa crisis climática con negativo impacto

2023-09-28T21:28+0200telesurtv (es)

La grave sequía que azota la Amazonía brasileña, con niveles extremadamente bajos en los ríos, combinada con temperaturas sin precedentes, contrasta con las intensas lluvias reportadas en la región de Río Grande do Sul, publicaron este jueves medios nacionales.

Record-Breaking Heatwave Sweeps South America: The Impact of Climate Change

2023-09-26T02:00+0200archyde (en)

2023-09-25 20:52:00. (CNN) — This weekend may have marked the beginning of spring in the southern hemisphere, but in several South American countries it felt like the peak of summer, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil all hit record....

Internet of Things (IoT) and forest fires [1/2] – KINEIS

2023-09-25T21:49+0200spacequip (en)

The new approach of satellite Internet of Things in forest fires detection Forest fires : a global challenge. Forests now cover 31% of our planet’s land surface. As well as being home to the majority of the Earth’s biodiversity, these fragile plant ecosystems play an important regulatory role in the....

Firefighters combat fire in Serra do Coco forest area, Brazil

2023-09-23T10:36+0200wn (en)

A plane drops water on a fire in the Serra do Coco forest area in Riachao das Neves, Bahia state, Brazil , Sept. 22, 2023. According to the National Center for Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, the fires are being fanned by strong winds, high temperatures, and dry weather.

Firefighters combat fire in Serra do Coco forest area, Brazil

2023-09-23T10:30+0200xinhuanet-english (en)

A plane drops water on a fire in the Serra do Coco forest area in Riachao das Neves, Bahia state, Brazil , Sept. 22, 2023. According to the National Center for Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, the fires are being fanned by strong winds, high temperatures, and dry weather.

Firefighters combat fire in Serra do Coco forest area, Brazil

2023-09-23T10:27+0200english-news-cn (en)

A plane drops water on a fire in the Serra do Coco forest area in Riachao das Neves, Bahia state, Brazil , Sept. 22, 2023. According to the National Center for Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, the fires are being fanned by strong winds, high temperatures, and dry weather.

Brazil’s firefighters battle wildfires raging during rare late-winter heat wave

2023-09-22T05:31+0200jamaicaobserver (en)

An extensive area of the Serra das Bandeiras forest burns in Barreiras, western Bahia state, Brazil , Thursday, September 21, 2023. According to the National Center for Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, the fires are being fanned by strong winds, high temperatures, and dry weather.

Amazon Countries Lose 1 Million Ha of Water Surface in 10 Years

2023-09-21T23:30+0200telesurenglish (en)

This situation has resulted in a generalized retraction trend in water surface area, which contributes to the proliferation of forest fires and the consequent increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Both biodiversity and communities in the region are severely affected.

Paper-based food packaging at the centre of Europe’s waste crisis

2023-09-21T19:28+0200waste-management-world (en)

Paper-based food packaging is marketed as a sustainable alternative to plastic, despite the fact that it is usually combined with plastics or other chemical coatings, rarely contains recycled content, and drives global deforestation and industrial water use, according to a new report by a coalition....

California sues oil majors for risk minimization (ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and Chevron)

2023-09-17T01:42+0200archyde (en)

It’s a real bomb sent by the State of California. On Friday, he hired lawsuits against five of the world’s largest oil companies, Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips and Chevron. And maybe even six with the American Petroleum Institute, also targeted, according to the New York Times. The complaint was filed in San Francisco Superior Court.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/global/202308

2023-09-15T21:36+0200ncdc-noaa (en)

revealed significant food insecurity continuing in parts of Central and South America, Southwest Asia, and much of Africa. Above-normal precipitation fell across central to northern Europe during August 2023, while southwest and southeastern portions were drier than normal.

Our planet is burning in unexpected ways – here’s how we can protect people and nature

2023-09-15T01:16+0200nationaltribune (en)

, published in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, we used satellite data to create global maps of where and how fires are burning. We calculated about 3.98 million square kilometres of Earth’s land surface burns each year. We also examined research spanning archaeology, climatology,....

Empresas Copec S A : ARAUCO indefinitely suspends operations at Licantén pulp mill

2023-09-14T00:02+02004-traders (en)

Despite the efforts and adjustments in recent times, the subsidiary suspended operations due to several reasons related to climate variability, with consecutive flooding of the Mataquito River this winter, extreme periods of drought that caused repeated halts in the mill's operations in previous....

“We are basically turning climate science upside down”

2023-09-12T02:28+0200kiratas (en)

“We are basically turning climate science upside down,” says Friederike Otto, physicist and executive director of the Institute for Environmental Change at the University of Oxford. She is co-initiator of the World Weather Attribution initiative and one of the faces of the attribution research branch.

Latin America & The Caribbean Weekly Situation Update (As of 11 September 2023)

2023-09-12T01:51+0200reliefWeb (en)

REGIONAL: DENGUE. KEY FIGURES. 3.4M CASES OF DENGUE RECORDED ACROSS THE REGION SO FAR IN 2023. Dengue cases continue to rise across Latin America and the Caribbean, with at least 3,407,921 cases recorded so far. This is more than was recorded in the entirety of 2019, the year with the highest number of incidences on record (3,181,171).

EU supply chains: the consequences of consumption

2023-09-11T03:49+0200eu-boell (en)

Europe is a major hotspot for peatland degradation because of peat extraction and the use of peatlands for agriculture and forestry. Other major hotspots are Northeastern China, Southeast Asia and the American Midwest. An estimated 88 percent of the world’s peatlands remain largely unused and undrained.

Lula advierte de una 'emergencia climática sin precedentes'

2023-09-10T18:49+0200aporrea (es)

El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declaró durante la cumbre de los líderes del Grupo de los Veinte (G20) que el mundo se enfrenta a una 'emergencia climática sin precedentes'. Brasil, por su parte, agregó, hace todo lo posible para proteger el medio ambiente.

How Climate Change Worsens Air Quality

2023-09-06T15:57+0200kompas-id (en)

KOMPAS/RIZA FATHONI. The view of weather pollution around Jakarta during the day on Saturday (2/9/2023) was cloudy. Based on the Air Quality Index (AQI) for the Jakarta Special Capital Region on Saturday (2/9/2023) at 08.00 WIB, the air quality index for the Jakarta Special Capital Region falls into....

HOW TO HELP THE AMAZON: 8 WAYS TO DO IT

2023-09-05T15:14+0200bullfrag (en)

The catastrophic effects of global warming are shown in full as Siberia, Alaska, Greenland and the Amazon rainforest, which covers much of northwestern Brazil and extends to Colombia, Peru and other countries in South America burn. Also, Amazon forest fires are particularly alarming as scientists....