COP30: How Ghana is reducing its carbon footprint

11 November 2025

In northern Ghana’s Yiwagu community, farming has long been the backbone of local livelihoods. But in recent years, harvests — especially of shea nuts — have dwindled. Locals blame the decline on erratic rainfall and rising temperatures, symptoms of a changing climate. In response, the ethnic minority community has turned to traditional conservation practices. Local ... Mai mult

Lula urges action as COP30 climate talks kick off in Amazon

11 November 2025

Last year’s UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, opened with the country’s president, Ilham Aliyev, calling oil — the fossil fuel that, alongside gas and coal, drives global warming — a “gift of God.” The opening statements at this year’s COP30 climate gathering, held on the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Belem, struck a ... Mai mult

Trump is not going to COP30 in Brazil, but America is

11 November 2025

Washington will not be sending a top-level team to this year’s COP climate summit in Belem, Brazil. The global community expected as much from a president who has pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement for the second time, slashed funding for renewable energy, championed fossil fuel projects and told world leaders at ... Mai mult

COP30: ‘Climate conference of truth’ in Brazil?

10 November 2025

Two cruise ships are bobbing quietly in the specially expanded port near the city of Belem in northern Brazil on the edge of the Amazon. They will serve as alternative accommodation for more than 10,000 participants at this year’s climate conference. Between 40,000 and 50,000 people, including heads of state and government from almost 200 ... Mai mult

Mineritul în oceane: riscuri pentru ecosistemele marine şi peştii comerciali

10 November 2025

Deşeurile din mineritul de mare adâncime ar putea perturba lanţul trofic marin şi pescuitul global, prin generarea de coloane de deșeuri care opresc zooplantonul din a se hrăni cu nutrienți esențiali. Fără un zooplanton hrănit adecvat, pescuitul global s-ar putea schimba semnificativ. Un studiu recent avertizează că exploatarea minieră în adâncuri, care generează coloane de ... Mai mult

Nigeria: Ken Saro-Wiwa’s fight against pollution lives on

10 November 2025

The late Nigerian writer and teacher Ken Saro-Wiwa put the disastrous oil extraction in the Niger Delta on the international agenda and dispelled the notion that oil would bring prosperity to Nigeria. “If we had a proper system, they would find that there is not so much oil money around anyway,” Saro-Wiwa told DW in ... Mai mult

Începe summitul climatic COP30 din Brazilia. De ce este important și care sunt provocările din 2025 în materie de știinţă a climei?

10 November 2025

Tratatul a stabilit, de asemenea, principiul „responsabilităţilor comune, dar diferenţiate”, ceea ce înseamnă că ţările bogate, responsabile pentru cea mai mare parte a emisiilor care contribuie la încălzirea planetei, poartă o responsabilitate mai mare în rezolvarea problemei. Preşedinţia rotativă, deţinută în prezent de Brazilia, stabileşte agenda summitului şi lucrează pe tot parcursul anului pentru a ... Mai mult

How Much Should We Really Worry About Microplastics?

9 November 2025

Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long. They are either purposely manufactured to be small, such as in cosmetics, or they result from larger plastic items breaking down, such as how wood breaks down into sawdust. We worry about microplastics because studies have found these particles end up inside people’s bodies and ... Mai mult