The 29th Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP29) is starting today in Baku, Azerbaijan. This week, like every year, scientists, economists, and politicians gather to discuss how to solve the ongoing climate crisis. The goal of this conference is to keep acting on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, caused mainly by the use of …
There is a question that worries climate scientists a lot: will global warming stop when we reach zero greenhouse gas emissions? There are two schools of thought on this matter: the "optimistic" one claims that when (and if) we reach net zero emissions of greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, N2O, CFC, …), the long-term increase in …
The pestiferous child modulating the earth's climate, together with his little sister. One of the most powerful climatic phenomena occurring on planet Earth. We are talking about El Niño (the child, in Spanish) and its counterpart La Niña. It’s making the headlines again because the Australian meteorological office has finally announced that an El Niño …
Hearing news of huge icebergs detaching from the polar ice shelves is becoming increasingly frequent. The latest is about the ice mass now called A-81, which detached from the Brunt ice shelf in Antarctica. The event was captured by the ESA satellite Sentinel-2, also letting experts to monitor all the stages of formation and widening …
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The twenty-seventh United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP27) on climate change begins this Sunday. This year the conference is held in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt). Delegates from all around the world are summoned to discuss political and economic solutions to the climate crisis. The science is clear: the cause of recent climate change is greenhouse …
This last Summer was difficult in terms of extreme events around the world. Let’s start from our home country. After a months-long drought, on the evening of the 15th of September the Marche region was hit by a self-regenerating storm, a very dangerous type of weather phenomenon, characterized by its ability to feed itself and …
The recent climate change doesn't have the same impact everywhere. Some regions are most affected by it, both from a social and an economic perspective. In general, there is an increase in heatwaves and soil aridity, sea level rise, and an increase in diseases dangerous for humans. This could get worse in the future, and …
The Winter Olympic Games are being held in Beijing right now. In addition to the Chinese capital, the races are also held in the nearby mountainous areas of Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, which however are usually too dry to have a good snow cover. The chronic lack of snow is the organisers' main headache. One of …
The 26th annual Conference of Parties (COP26) starts this week in Glasgow (UK), organised by the governments of the United Kingdom and Italy. The conference is held one year after the originally scheduled date, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the meeting goals are nothing short of ambitious. The Conferences of Parties have been …
Ready, steady, go. As soon as it took office, the new administration of President Biden made the US rejoin the Paris climate agreement. This is a nice change of pace compared to the previous administration of President Trump, who decided to quit the agreement. For the occasion, the climate scientist Ed Hawkins produced a special …
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