Tag: Climate Change & Global Warming

Hawaii school students sue transport department over pollution crisis and claim ‘rising tides are washing up ancestors’ BONES’ – months after Montana youths won landmark climate change trial

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Fourteen Hawaiian school students are suing the transport department for infringing on their right to grow up in a healthy environment by polluting it with greenhouse gases. 

Ranging in age from 10 to 19, the plaintiffs claim they have been ‘seriously injured’ due to the government violating constitutional pledges to decarbonize the transport sector by 2045. 

Their complaint says global warming is threatening age-old agricultural industries in Hawaii, while rising sea levels are projected to wipe out entire communities within

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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden – sporting a dressing on her wrist – joins Prince Daniel in Berlin as guests of Germany’s president and his wife to mark National Day of Mourning 2023

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Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden joined her husband Prince Daniel in Berlin today – as guests of the German premier and his wife. 

The royal, 46, who has been sporting a large plaster on her right wrist during the couple’s official visit to Germany, waved at crowds gathered as Germany marked Volkstrauertag – a national day of mourning for those lost in conflict and violent oppression. 

The Swedish royals were hosted by German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife

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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Demonic’ off-shore wind farms are blamed for New Jersey whale deaths: Former SNL star reveals ‘green energy companies’ are sending ultra-loud blasts into water every 10 seconds that make mammals think predators are chasing them

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The picturesque ocean of New Jersey is set to feature hundreds of turbines that will provide millions with ‘clean energy’ – but it could be deadly for marine life.

Residents, lawmakers and activists are fighting against such projects, claiming companies blasting the seafloor with sonar are behind dozens of whales and dolphins in the past year.

Approximately 16 whales have died, and 72 were found stranded, along with 53 beached dolphins along the coast from December 2022, a New Jersey

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Motorist who shot dead two environmental protesters blocking a road is retired US lawyer, 77, ‘with a conviction for illegal possession of firearms’: Gunman ‘declared “this ends here” before opening fire’

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A motorist who shot dead two environmental protesters blocking a road in Panama on Tuesday is a retired American lawyer, it has been revealed.

Kenneth Darlington, 77, appeared before a judge in the town of La Espiga on Wednesday afternoon, and after a two-hour hearing was remanded in custody. 

According to local media, the Panamanian-born US citizen – who was seen in both video and pictures shooting dead two teachers blocking a road on a highway – has a previous

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World Health Organization climate chief hails Sadiq Khan’s hated ULEZ expansion in London as ‘politically courageous’

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Sadiq Khan was today branded ‘politically courageous’ by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) climate chief for pushing through with the ULEZ expansion.

London’s mayor sparked outrage with his decision to widen the scheme to cover all 32 boroughs, which kicked in at the end of August.

Protestors angered by the levy — £12.50 a day for cars that fall short of the emissions standard — have even taken to destroying cameras.

Maria Neira, the WHO’s environment, climate change and health

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I’m a travel photographer – here are 15 incredible pictures I captured of one of the world’s most remote inhabited regions

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It’s one of the world’s most hard-to-reach inhabited regions in the depths of winter – but those that make the journey are rewarded with mesmerising views, travel photographer Andrew Newey reveals.

Zanskar is an ultra-remote Himalayan valley region set at an altitude of 7,756m (25,446ft) in Ladakh, a territory of northern India. For many years, during the height of the winter, the main route into Zanskar was via the 40-mile (64km) Chadar route, which takes trekkers over the frozen Zanskar

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We asked Google’s Bard AI to give us betting odds on when AI will take over

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Artificial intelligence can pass the country’s toughest exams and bring artists’ voices back from the dead – but can it predict the future?

DailyMail.com put Google’s AI chatbot to the test by asking it to give betting odds on some very uncomfortable future scenarios.

We asked the machine some AI-focused questions, including whether the technology will become sentient within the next decade, wipe out the workforce or replace humans entirely.

But other hot-button topics explored included climate change and the

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Climate change may have given ancient human ancestors bigger brains, study finds

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Climate change may have propelled the evolution of humanity forward by giving humanity’s ancient ancestors bigger brains, a new study has suggested.

Researchers from Washington University in St Louis found increases in the brain sizes of ancient hominins (humanity’s ancestors) aligned with glacial phases more than 600,000 years ago.

The team developed a computer simulation to mathematically show how new mating habits and ‘parental cooperation’ needed to survive during an inhospitable Ice Age would have ‘sped up’ the evolution of

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Fighting climate change…. from space! Scientist unveils bizarre plot to CATCH an asteroid and tether an enormous umbrella to it in an attempt to shield us from the sun’s rays

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It’s so bonkers that you might assume it’s just the plot of an upcoming Hollywood blockbuster. 

But scientists really are toying with the idea of catching an asteroid, in the name of saving the planet from climate change.

The bizarre mission, if ever given the go ahead, would then see a massive umbrella stuck on top of the trapped rock to shield Earth from the sun’s rays. 

István Szapudi, an astronomer from the University of Hawaiʻi, argued his far-fetched concept

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The big eco lie: Solar panels produce five TIMES more carbon dioxide than previously thought, report claims

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Solar panels release five times more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new report.

An Italian researcher made the claims after finding a database that world institutions use to calculate global carbon footprint projections omits emissions from China, which produces 80 percent of solar panels worldwide.

China is known to use coal-burning plants in manufacturing, which has dropped the price of technology for Americans and other Western countries.  

Without data from China, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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