Europe must prepare better for global warming, urges the EU. However, the new measures have been met with criticism.
Almost all of the world’s shallow-water coral reefs are at ‘extremely high risk’ of collapse by 2075 as a result of climate change.
A bright green sea anemone, which lives in waters as shallow as just a few decimetres, has appeared in a limited area of Bohuslän.
A three-metre-long shark, which usually lives in tropical climates, had been trapped for several weeks in an artificial canal in south-eastern South Korea.
The US has, single-handedly, worsened the outlook for the planet, according to a report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The country’s shift under Donald Trump is the main reason why global warming is set to be worse than feared. No one will be spared, says UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen.
More icebreakers and an undersea cable to Greenland are included as the European Commission sets out a new strategy for the Arctic.
In four years’ time, several key targets for the world’s wildlife and natural environment are due to be met – but progress is slow. How to achieve the targets set out in the ‘Paris Agreement for Nature’ is the focus as the UN Conference on Biological Diversity convenes for the 17th time.
This year’s September was the second warmest on record, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Service.
A new study shows that penguins’ poo is inadvertently accelerating snowmelt in Antarctica.
Every year, there are usually isolated reports of barrel jellyfish sightings on the Swedish west coast, but this year there have been significantly more sightings than usual. `There’s no doubt it’s a huge number,´ says marine biologist Martin Stjernstedt at Havets hus in Lysekil.
One of the world’s lowest salinity marine waters, the Gulf of Bothnia, faces major challenges with an increased risk of algal blooms. The reason is that phosphorus levels in the shallow inland sea are rising. This means that the delicate balance between phosphorus and nitrogen is being disrupted, which in turn affects which organisms thrive in the sea. The new study, led by researchers at Umeå University, shows that a fundamental change in the marine environment is about to take place.
Australia has become the last continent to report its first cases of the H5N1 bird flu. The virus is spreading rapidly, and this summer’s expected extreme weather could, in the worst-case scenario, create a perfect storm leading to the mass death of thousands of birds and animals. – ‘The worst-case, catastrophic scenario would be the loss of entire species,’ says Darren Grover, biodiversity expert at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
Prolonged heatwaves and widespread drought characterised the summer in Europe. A new report from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Service shows that this also led to several record-breaking high temperatures in the oceans and very low water levels in Europe’s largest rivers.
Sweden is failing to meet almost all of its environmental targets. The only target that looks certain to be met by 2030 concerns the ozone layer. ‘We are by no means there yet,’ says Sabina Vinnmyr, an officer at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. - Vi är absolut inte i hamn, säger Sabina Vinnmyr, handläggare på Naturvårdsverket.
This influx of heat is occurring at the same time as sea levels are rising ever more rapidly and ocean acidification continues, reports the British newspaper The Guardian. The amount of heat is equivalent to 40 times the annual global energy consumption.
Moldova has declared a 60-day state of emergency following an unusually severe drought. The state of emergency applies to the energy and water sectors and was passed by parliament to enable the authorities to take measures more easily to tackle water shortages and rising energy costs.
The surface of the Pacific Ocean is already at record-breaking temperatures, and the El Niño weather phenomenon appears to be developing into an extremely powerful ‘super’ variant. There is nothing to compare it with, says climate researcher Gustav Strandberg.
Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion tonnes of ice since the 1970s. This has raised global sea levels by more than three centimetres, according to a new study.
It is difficult to say at this stage how much weight issues relating to the oceans and climate change will carry during the next parliamentary term, but three parties with climate and environmental policies have seen their support grow: the Green Party, the Left Party and the Centre Party.
The El Niño weather phenomenon is in full swing and is expected to cause weather disturbances until at least February next year, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).
Is the Gulf Stream on the verge of collapsing and causing chaos in the Earth’s climate? Several high-profile reports have warned that this is about to happen. But this is one of the few climate issues on which the scientific community remains deeply divided. Men frågan är en av få klimatfrågor där forskarvärlden fortfarande är djupt oenig.
According to a new study, the El Niño weather phenomenon is becoming more intense as a result of climate change.
El Niño events are around 36 per cent more intense than they were before industrialisation. And this trend has accelerated over the last four decades.
A collapsing glacier and a landslide are likely to have triggered the mudslide disaster in Nepal.
