Although Cape Town has pushed back day zero – the day that the city runs out of water – until June 4, the country re-assessed the magnitude of the drought and determined that it has reached disaster proportions.
Using satellite data, researchers say sea levels could rise by half an inch a year by the end of the century, which is double current projections.
The drought-stricken city announced that it will begin marking 200 collection points where its 3.7 million residents will be required to queue for a rationed supply of water on ‘Day Zero’ – currently forecast to be April 21, 2018.
Scientists say millions more are at risk of flooding over the decades to come based on climate change already in the pipeline. In order to survive, the time to adapt is now.
Today, the city of New York in US joined a number of California cities in suing a group of major oil companies for the costs of climate change.
From Texas to Puerto Rico, here’s how much damage extreme weather caused last year.
Researchers plotted temperature rises against the number of asylum applications and are predicting that as the southern hemisphere heats up the number of people migrating to the EU each year will triple.
Beijing inspectors went to some of the most polluted cities in the world to discover thousands of officials had failed in their roles to care for the environment.
Steve Berman, who won a $200 billion settlement from tobacco companies in the 90s has set his sights on fossil fuel companies.
Three villages have already been moved and another 43 are set to be shifted, the country’s attorney general said last month.
Fires continue to burn Southern California, and climate scientists have warned us for years that the region was entering a year-round fire regime.
Meteorologists warns that the collapse of Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in Antarctica could flood every coastal city on Earth.
The viewpoint article -- "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice" - was signed by more than 15,000 scientists in 184 countries.
Schools are closed, construction has halted, and vehicles have been restricted as levels of PM2.5 pollution spike in the Indian capital.
As the report makes clear, there is no reasonable doubt remaining that climate change is a story about human actions—not natural cycles.