UAE committed to 40% emissions reduction, says climate minister 3/9/2024

Dr. Amna bint Abdullah Al Dahak Al Shamsi, Minister of Climate Change and the Environment, has said the UAE is committed to a nationwide pledge announced last year to reduce emissions by 40 per cent compared to a "business-as-usual" scenario by 2030. ...more

Environment Agency –Abu Dhabi launches sea cage aquaculture project using Artificial Intelligence tools 3/9/2024

Environment Agency–Abu Dhabi (EAD) launched the first sea cages aquaculture project in Abu Dhabi. ...more

Africa faces steep costs as temperatures soar, says WMO 3/9/2024

Africa faces an increasingly heavy toll from climate change with many countries having to spend up to 9% of their budgets battling climate extremes, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report said on Monday. ...more

Buying one pair of jeans and a T-shirt second hand saves 20,000 bottles of water 3/9/2024

Buying a pair of second-hand jeans and a T-shirt can save the equivalent of 20,000 bottles of water, according to new analysis by Oxfam. ...more

Colony of invasive red dwarf honeybee found for first time in Europe 3/9/2024

The red dwarf honeybee has established a colony in Europe for the first time, scientists have found. ...more

How Tunisian seaweed is changing the future of food production 2/9/2024

An eco-revolution is taking root beneath the waves of Tunisia's Bizerte lagoon. ...more

Countries still far apart on COP29 finance goal 2/9/2024

With less than three months until this year's COP29 UN climate negotiations, countries remain far from agreement on the summit's biggest task: to agree a new funding target to help developing countries cope with climate change. ...more

Brazil's Amazon rainforest fires in August reach 14-year high 2/9/2024

The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region for the month of August surged to the highest level since 2010, government data showed on Sunday, after a record drought that has been plaguing the biome. ...more

Global solar generation overtakes wind for longest ever stretch 2/9/2024

Global electricity generation from solar farms has exceeded generation from wind farms since May, marking the longest ever stretch when solar power has been the top source of utility-scale renewable electricity worldwide. ...more

ChatGPT consumes $29.71M worth of energy to handle over 78 billion 2/9/2024

The rapid rise of generative AI, especially following the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT nearly two years ago, has sparked growing concerns about the energy demands of large language models (LLMs). The latest piece of research reveals just how much electricity ChatGPT consumes to answer user queries alone. ...more