Tag: Climate change
Desertification: Why oases are expanding
Despite climate change and many droughts, oases have expanded noticeably in recent decades. Unfortunately, that’s not necessarily good news. source site
Climate: A winter that we will experience more often
Lots of precipitation, but little snow: A data analysis shows why the end of the season could be typical for the Alpine winters of the future. source site
24 million people affected by drought in southern Africa
As of: April 23, 2024 6:48 p.m It is the worst drought in 100 years: more than 24 million people in southern Africa are affected by hunger and water shortages.…
Nominations for the German Non-Fiction Prize: Understanding the Present – Culture
On Tuesday, the jury announced which eight titles would be in the running for the German Non-Fiction Prize 2024. To make their selection, the seven-member group looked at 225 books…
Climate: A winter that we will experience more often
Lots of precipitation, but little snow: A data analysis shows why the end of the season could be typical for the Alpine winters of the future. source site
Freixenet wants to lay off 80 percent of its employees – temporarily – Economy
Dismissed due to drought. Because the sky just doesn’t want to have mercy and hasn’t rained any rain on the fields for weeks. Hundreds of employees of the Spanish sparkling…
New, second-hand, borrowed… Have you changed the way you consume books?
Is the book destined to become a collector’s item like vinyl? With the arrival of digital e-readers in the 2000s, the question of its survival arose. Today, readers are increasingly…
What is this “extreme heat stress” which has broken a record in Europe?
The term has been used by many media since the publication of an alarming report from the European Copernicus Observatory and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In their 2023 report,…
Heat waves, floods, drought: climate change hits Europe particularly hard – knowledge
There are now different degrees of extreme. No longer just extreme, but also “beyond extreme”. In the recently published “European State of the Climate” report, climate researchers describe a heat…
Climate change hits Europe particularly hard – knowledge
There are now different degrees of extreme. No longer just extreme, but also “beyond extreme”. In the recently published “European State of the Climate” report, climate researchers describe a heat…