Canada was one of the worst countries to fight climate change in the
past 10 years.
Greta
Thunberg, 16 year old environmental activist is named Person of the Year
by Time Magazine.
Scientists say that the oxygen level in our oceans is falling causing
serious fish habitat issues.
Earth set to warm 3.2 C by 2100 unless efforts to cut emissions are
tripled, new UN report finds
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2018, exceeding
the average yearly increase of the last decade and reinforcing
increasingly damaging weather patterns, the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) said
India has cancelled plans to build nearly 14 gigawatts of coal-fired
power stations – about the same as the total amount in the UK – with the
price for solar electricity “free falling” to levels once considered
impossible. Research has found Arctic
soil has warmed to the point where it releases more carbon in winter
than northern plants can absorb during the summer.
About one in eight bird
species is threatened with global extinction due to factors such as the
expansion of agriculture, logging, invasive species, hunting, and
climate change, according to a new report from the conservation group
BirdLife International. Overall, 40 percent of the world’s 11,000 bird
species are in decline.
Trending is e-Bicycles and predictions for lots of sales for 2020.
Brazil's Amazon forest is littered with many forest fires threatening
the world's 20% production of oxygen. Data from the Mauna Loa
Observatory in Hawaii has recorded atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at
415.26 parts per million (ppm), marking a historic precedent in the last
800,000 years, since before the evolution of homo sapiens..
Carbon dioxide grew by 2.87 parts per million (ppm) at the mountain top
observatory during 2018, jumping from an average of 407.05 ppm on Jan.
1, 2018, to 409.92 on Jan. 1, 2019, according to a new analysis of air
samples collected by NOAA’s Global Monitoring Division (GMD).
Of 54
countries reporting, Sweden is the best country in the world for Climate
Change performance with United States and Saudi Arabia the worst.
Reported that Canada is warming at a rate which is twice as fast as the
rest of the world.
The Tesla Model 3 was the best-selling electric car in the world in 2018
with sales of 138,000 cars.
2018 was the fourth-hottest year ever
recorded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and NASA, which means that the past five years have been
the five warmest years in the modern record.
Global warming is
melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before -- about six times
more per year now than 40 years ago -- leading to increasingly high sea
levels worldwide. By the years 2009 to 2017,
the ice loss had increased more than six fold, to 252 billion tons per
year.
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