October 3, 2023
Mosquitoes could be the sole species to be benefitting from climate change, as the warmer and wetter weather that comes with global warming makes for their ideal environment. Thanks to this, the insects are growing bigger and living longer, increasing their ability to pick up and spread potentially deadly diseases. Bites from the blood-sucking bugs are
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A new poll shows that a shocking number of French citizens support banning people from flying more than four times in their lives due to climate change. A poll from research firm Consumer Science and Analytics Institute (CSA) found that 41% of citizens would support such a limit. That number rose to 59% support among
READ MORE The NSW government is reviewing trading laws for retail businesses on Anzac Day, with more stores facing stricter closure rules for the public holiday. Currently, businesses including supermarkets and clothing stores are required to stay closed until 1pm at the earliest on Anzac Day, while traders including pharmacies, petrol stations and cafes are exempt from
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Ever since Netflix was founded more than a quarter of a century ago, it has sent mail order DVDs to people’s homes. But this is finally coming to an end as the firm will be shipping its last ever discs today – dubbed by experts as ‘the end of an era’. Five remaining distribution centres
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OF the many challenges the global agriculture sector is facing, climate change is perhaps the most magnified. And this is for good reason, as extreme weather conditions can wreak havoc on food systems, affecting both producers and consumers. A study paper by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) posted on its website clearly
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Despite some views that GDP growth would be revised downward substantially (see discussion here), the recent trajectory of GDP and GDO was largely unchanged (even if the level over the period 2019 onward was). A lot of the revisions are summarized in this figure from Paweł Skrzypczyński: Source: Paweł Skrzypczyński. Since the data are indexed
READ MORE HANOI: The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to combat climate change is reinvigorating a 20-year-old plan for the region to share power. Malaysia and Indonesia inked a deal in Bali, Indonesia, last month to study 18 potential locations where cross-border transmission lines can be set up. Those links could eventually
READ MOREU.S. President Joe Biden vowed Monday to help Pacific island nations deal with climate change, at a summit aimed at boosting Washington’s influence in the region against an increasingly assertive China. “I want you to know I hear you” on climate issues, Biden told leaders of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum on a showy visit
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In the past five years, none of the targets political leaders adopted after the previous round of high-level discussions on the fight against tuberculosis (TB) at the United Nations General Assembly have been met. (David Harrison) In 2018, at the last high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis (TB) world leaders adopted aspirational goals to
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Scientists are blaming climate change for the rise in alcohol and drug use. A team from Columbia University analyzed hospital rates in New York State from 1995 to 2014, finding an increase amid warmer temperatures. Researchers suggested that alcohol-related visits may be driven by people’s tendency to consume more substances in pleasant outdoor weather and more
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