#Climate change

#Climate change

The Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network (GLAMOS) is reporting an average snow deficit of 25%, compared to averages from 2010-2020, partly due to a warm and dry month of April this season. Specifically, the regions of Upper Valais, Ticino, and Graubünden are seeing a drastic deficit heading into the summer melt months. Consequently, the protective snow layer is depleting so rapidly, it could be a matter of just weeks before debris and bare ice are exposed, leading to an inevitable accelerated glacier melt and retreat.

Crater Glacier, the world's youngest glacier, sitting at an approximate elevation of 6,526 feet. It is also officially known as Tulutson Glacier, its original Indigenous designation, though the U.S. Board on Geographic Names formally approved the name "Crater Glacier" in 2006.

Sand is sometimes referred to as the unrecognised hero of development, but its essential role in sustaining the natural services on which we depend is even more overlooked. Sand is our first line of defence against sea level rise, storm surges, and salination of coastal aquifers all hazards exacerbated by climate change. The most extracted solid material on Earth, sand is mined to build homes, roads and sea walls in concrete production, building foundations and masonry work.

A recent report has warned that the river could disappear by 2040 due to declining water levels and droughts driven by climate change. Satellite data have shown that the Euphrates basin has lost more than 34 cubic miles of freshwater since 2003, roughly 13 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, highlighting the scale of the decline.

“Iris Rodriguez remembers sleeping on a bed made out of sacks. Her grandfather put it together for her; she slept on it while her family processed coffee in the early hours of the morning, during harvest time. That's one of the memories that made me feel like I belonged and that I was loved by my family, she recalls.”

Turner stated, 'Fifty years aren't up yet. I'd say that's generally the case. The nuclear threat is the most imminent threat. But global climate change and environmental destruction of the earth and our resource base, that's the other great threat.'

The Norwegian government plans to spend 19bn kroner on restarting the Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk, and Tommeliten Gamma gas fields by the end of 2028, with production continuing until 2048.

The only train station in Houston, the US's fourth-largest city, is a diminished, morose sight, serving a metropolitan area of about 7 million people with just three intercity trains a week.

At least six people have died in heavy rains in northeastern Brazil, with thousands more displaced, according to authorities. The deaths were reported in the Pernambuco and Paraiba states on Saturday, following two days of rain.