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Expo City Dubai launches world’s first fungi survival centre 26/6/2025
Expo City Dubai launches world’s first fungi survival centre The world’s first Centre for Species Survival (CSS) dedicated to fungi has been established at Expo City Dubai. ...more
Energy Access Has Improved, Yet International Financial Support Still Needed to Boost Progress and Address Disparities 26/6/2025
Energy Access Has Improved, Yet International Financial Support Still Needed to Boost Progress and Address Disparities Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 finds that almost 92% of the world’s population now has basic access to electricity Although this is an improvement since 2022, which saw the number of people without basic access decrease for the first time in a decade, over 666 million people remain without access, indicating that the current rate is insufficient to reach universal access by 2030. Clean cooking access is progressing but below the rates of progress seen in the 2010s, as efforts remain hobbled by setbacks during the Covid-19 pandemic, following energy price shocks, and debt crises. ...more
Britain must lower power prices to meet climate goals, advisors say 26/6/2025
Britain must lower power prices to meet climate goals, advisors say Britain must cut its electricity prices to speed up the adoption of emission curbing technology, such as electric vehicles and heat pumps, to meet its climate targets, the country's climate advisers said in a progress report on Wednesday. ...more
Policymakers often ignore forest regeneration in fight against climate change, research finds 26/6/2025
Policymakers often ignore forest regeneration in fight against climate change, research finds Naturally-regenerating forests are often ignored by policymakers working to curb climate change even though they hold an untapped potential to rapidly absorb planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere, scientists found in a research paper published Tuesday. ...more
Global warming is changing cloud patterns. That means more global warming 26/6/2025
Global warming is changing cloud patterns. That means more global warming At any given time, about two-thirds of Earth's surface is covered by clouds. Overall, they make the planet much cooler than it would be without them. ...more
Plastic bag ban helps to save camels' lives, study suggests 25/6/2025
Plastic bag ban helps to save camels' lives, study suggests Number of camels found dead having ingested plastic in UAE falls by 60-80 per cent, says researcher. ...more
Record renewables capacity falls short of global target, REN21 says 25/6/2025
Record renewables capacity falls short of global target, REN21 says A record 740 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity was added worldwide last year, still not enough to meet a global goal to triple renewable capacity by 2030, a report by the Paris-based thinktank REN21 showed on Tuesday. ...more
Asia warming twice as fast as global average: WMO 25/6/2025
Asia warming twice as fast as global average: WMO Asia faces rapid warming, double the global average. Sea surface temperatures are also rising quickly. Extreme heatwaves impacted East Asia. India reported many heatstroke cases and deaths. Sea levels rose faster, threatening coastal areas. Glaciers in the Himalayas and Tian Shan are melting, increasing disaster risks. Extreme rainfall and droughts caused damage. Climate change impacts Asia's societies, economies, and ecosystems. ...more
Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds 25/6/2025
Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds More than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads to 66,000 early deaths a year and many cases of heart disease, diabetes and depression. ...more
In Chile's Atacama, world's driest desert, growing lettuces with fog 25/6/2025
In Chile's Atacama, world's driest desert, growing lettuces with fog In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, growers and researchers are looking to harness water from the very air itself to grow lettuces and lemons, using a net to catch drops of moisture from fog. ...more
 
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