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[ad_1] Young environmental activists scored what experts described as a ground-breaking legal victory Monday when a Montana judge said state agencies were violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment by allowing fossil fuel development. The Montana case, brought by plaintiffs ranging in age from 5 to 22, was the first of its kind to go to trial in the US. The ruling adds to a small number of legal decisions around the world that have established a government duty to protect citizens from climate change . If it stands, the ruling could set an important legal precedent, though experts said the immediate impacts are limited and state officials pledged to seek to overturn the decision on appeal. District court judge Kathy Seeley found the policy the Montana state uses in evaluating requests for fossil fuel permits - which does not allow agencies to look at greenhouse gas emissions - to be unconstitutional. It marks the first time a US court has ruled agai

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence could be used to prevent planes from creating planet-warming condensation trails, or contrails, according to a new study . Exactly how much impact contrails have on global warming is still being studied, but one recent study found the feathery streaks in the sky can trap enough heat to account for about 35% of the aviation industry's climate impact.   "A contrail could form and then just dissipate, but the contrails that persist can be very warming," Jill Blickstein, vice president of sustainability at American Airlines, said.  The airline recently joined a study led by Google and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which is a Bill Gates-created organization that helps fund technology to reduce emissions. The study found pilots could use contrail forecast maps developed by AI to make slight altitude adjustments during trips. That could decrease contrail creation by more than 50%  How the study worked  C

[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Cascading effects in five areas of welfare, including nutrition, environment, behaviour, physical health, and mental health, will result from the effects of climate change on animals, according to a recent study. The study was published in CABI Reviews. The study emphasises the need for researchers to carefully consider which areas are of immediate and long-term importance in order to protect the welfare and longevity of animals used for food production, as domestic pets, and for conservation in zoos and nature reserves. Bats, zebrafish, stony creek frogs, koalas, African elephants, chickens, and dairy cows are among the animals at risk from the effects of climate change that are mentioned in the review. Although there are variations in how different animals react biologically to stress, it is argued in the review that the five domains model offers a reliable tool for research use and to assess the immediate effects of climatic variability on animals. The stud

[ad_1] Global rise in temperatures is increasing the threat of fungal infections, which can be fatal to human lives, according to US health officials. Climate predictions show that temperatures will likely rise by more than 1.5 Celsius above the UN-mandated pre-industrial levels at some point before 2027. The health officials state that climate change is "pushing the organisms to adapt to better infect and invade people", the Telegraph reported. "Since many of these fungal pathogens typically exist in nature, they`re not as well adapted to human or mammalian body temperatures at 37 degrees centigrade," Dr Michael Kurilla, a director of the US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a department within the National Institutes of Health was quoted as saying. "But with global warming, they are actually adapting... (it is) becoming much easier for fungi to colonise and infect and invade citizens, as well as other mammalian species," he

[ad_1] BRUSSELS: A hard-won deal on the European Union 's negotiating stance for this year's UN climate talks has revealed regional rifts that anticipate global tensions at the COP28 summit . Diplomats from the 27 EU countries spent weeks debating their COP28 position before their climate ministers agreed on Monday to push for deals to phase out CO2-emitting fossil fuels, triple production of renewable energy and halt the building of coal power plants. The stance sets the EU up to be among the most ambitious major economies at the COP28 gathering of nearly 200 countries, which begins on November 30. But even EU countries clashed over how ambitious to be - and their ministers were locked in talks into the evening on Monday. The faultlines tended to fall between wealthier EU members seeking rapid climate action, and poorer economies concerned about the cost of quitting fossil fuels. The toughest issue concerns fossil fuels - with the EU only agreeing to support a phas

[ad_1] While advancing on the path of industrial development without causing harm to the environment remains a global challenge, the price of industrial progress is being paid by the Earth's climate, impacting the entire world adversely. Climate change is a slowly perceptible issue but is exhibiting catastrophic effects. In today's DNA, Shobhna Yadav analysed the outcomes of the COP meet and concerns related to climate change. It might surprise you to know that in the year 2022, the average global temperature of our planet increased by 1.4 degrees Celsius. This indicates a significant rise in temperature. While the increase in temperature may seem minor, its catastrophic impact has been felt almost universally. Many countries are witnessing extreme weather conditions, experiencing severe heat in summers and brutal cold in winters. Rainfall patterns are also causing problems in numerous nations. Discussing such situations is crucial. Hence, every year under the leadership

[ad_1] RICHMOND: The US federal government is to announce on Thursday the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( FEMA ) will make nearly $2 billion of new money available through two programs intended to boost resilience to the effects of climate-related disasters. The funding comes as climate change drives more intense storms, flooding and wildfires across the United States, where this year there have already been at least 24 such events resulting in losses of more than $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.The two programs FEMA is funding are Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC), which funds projects providing protection from the effects of climate change, and the Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) program, which targets projects that cut flood risk. Victoria Salinas, head of resilience at FEMA, said while the agency was most commonly associated with emergency response and recovery, it also focused on mitigation t

[ad_1] OTTAWA: Canada will miss its 2030 target for cutting carbon emissions unless it quickly steps up efforts, concluded an audit released Tuesday by the environment commissioner. Ottawa has set a target of slashing total carbon emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. But the audit found it is likely to reach only a 34 percent CO2 reduction. This leaves a gap of six percent to 11 percent. Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco in his report laid the blame for the projected shortfall on delayed climate measures such as a cap on oil and gas sector emissions and new clean fuel regulations. Those delays were due to the covid-19 pandemic and longer than expected consultations with stakeholders, according to the government. "We found that the measures most critical for reducing emissions had not been identified or prioritized," DeMarco said in the report. Ottawa has spent billions of dollars rolling out more than 10 climate plans since 1990 and all so fa

[ad_1] SINGAPORE: Prince William honoured five environmental innovators on Tuesday with his Earthshot prize at a star-studded ceremony in Singapore. The Earthshot Prize initiative aims to support the development of solutions to the planet's biggest problems, like climate change , deforestation and waste. All five winners -- selected by a panel of judges that included British naturalist and television presenter David Attenborough -- were given one million pounds ($1.2 million) each. "I choose to believe that future generations will look back on this decade as the point at which we globally took collective action for our planet," Prince William, Britain's heir to the throne, told the gathering. "The moment we refused to accept the voices of denial and defeatism and instead became the architects of change towards a healthy and sustainable world." The glitzy event was co-hosted by British actress Hannah Waddingham and American actor Sterling K. Brown a

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The pace and scale of what has been done so far, as well as the current pledges of emission cuts by nations, are insufficient to tackle climate change and the world may well breach the dangerous threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius temperature rise (from the 1850-1900 level) by 2030, warns UN climate panel IPCC in its latest report. The IPCC, while releasing its “synthesis report” on six previous findings post-2015, said on Monday that the planet will warm permanently by at least 1.5 degrees C in the next two decades in all scenarios. The report said a 1.5 degrees C warming is likely to trigger a trail of destruction across the world due to an increase in the number of extreme weather events and sea level rise resulting from the melting of polar ice. Pitching for global “net zero” emissions by 2050 as a necessity to save the world from such disastrous consequences of climate change, the report made a strong case for cutting carbon dioxide emission by almost half b

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[ad_1] WASHINGTON: Cascading effects in five areas of welfare, including nutrition, environment, behaviour, physical health, and mental health, will result from the effects of climate change on animals, according to a recent study. The study was published in CABI Reviews. The study emphasises the need for researchers to carefully consider which areas are of immediate and long-term importance in order to protect the welfare and longevity of animals used for food production, as domestic pets, and for conservation in zoos and nature reserves. Bats, zebrafish, stony creek frogs, koalas, African elephants, chickens, and dairy cows are among the animals at risk from the effects of climate change that are mentioned in the review. Although there are variations in how different animals react biologically to stress, it is argued in the review that the five domains model offers a reliable tool for research use and to assess the immediate effects of climatic variability on animals. The stud