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Port Sudan: Three Days of Attacks

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Drones believed to have been launched by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are said to have struck a fuel depot and an army base in Port Sudan on Tuesday. “The UAE has ONCE AGAIN in the span of a couple days, targeted the last functioning civilian airport in Port Sudan. Another drone strike targeted warehouses near Port Sudan’s port ,less than an hour after the previous attack an observer wrote on X.com.

The Guardian reported, that drone strikes hit Port Sudan airport and an army base in the third day of attacks. The day before, a dossier of alleged Sudan war crimes was handed to the Metropolitan police.

EU: €282.5 Million for Chad and Sudan crisis

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The Commission has announced today €282.5 million in EU humanitarian aid to address the needs of the most vulnerable people in Chad, Sudan and neighbouring countries. Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib is today in Chad, where she is visiting several EU-funded projects in the country, including those assisting Sudanese refugees.

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Middle East: The Upcoming Regional War?

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IDF airstrikes on Lebanon after Hezbollah fires hundreds of rockets on Israel in response to killing of military commander Fuad Shukr

Israel’s military launched air raids across southern Lebanon and Hezbollah carried out a large drone and rocket attack, saying the barrage was in retaliation for the Israeli military’s killing of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut in July. => Al Jazeera

Israel stages heavy airstrikes on Lebanon as Hezbollah launches attack over slain top commander (AP via Yahoo)

Hezbollah says ‘fired 320 Katyusha rockets at Israel’; Tel Aviv launches air strikes in southern Lebanon | Hindustan Times

Malaria on the Move

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With World Mosquito Day this week, one.org has a look at a disease they carry: malaria, a silent but lethal killer. Shark attacks get a lot of headlines (and even their own popular TV series). But Mosquito Week quietly happens every week in many parts of the world, reports one.org. Mosquitos kill more people in one day than sharks have killed in the last 100 years. The vast majority of those are young children in Africa: half a million children under age 5 in Africa die each year from malaria. => Read «Aftershocks — Incisive insights on Africa» on one.org …

Africa: Debt jeopardises the future of millions of Africans

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On Monday (15th of July), Kenyan President William Ruto accused the Ford Foundation – a US-based philanthropy that promotes social justice and democratic values – of sponsoring violence and anarchy in Kenya (which Ford denies). It was an unusual move. It seems that Ruto (still) believes that meddling foreigners – and not citizens’ anger over his plan to raise taxes to address a fiscal crunch – sparked the protests that led to the storming of parliament and dozens of deaths, reports ONE. => https://www.epo.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17181:africa-debt-jeopardises-the-futures-of-millions-of-africans&catid=49&Itemid=97

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‘We are the Church’: Kenyan tax protesters take on Christian leaders (BBC, London, UK)

Joint Pilot Initiative Aims to Strengthen Resilience to Climate Change in Six Sahelian States (reliefweb/IOM United Nations)

Rwanda‘s 99% man who wants to extend his three decades in power (BBC, London, UK)

USA: Trump survives assassination attempt in Pennsylvania (MercoPress, Montevideo, Uruguay)

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Nigeria‘s Food Importation Policy Could Destroy Country’s Agriculture, Warns Akinwumi Adesina (allafrica.com/African Development Bank Group)

The entire world’s population is expected to reach 10.3 billion by 2080 (MercoPress, Montevideo, Uruguay)

Climate Change News Ticker | Klimakrisentagebuch

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Foto: In the Holy Waters of River Ganga by Thomas Dix. Copyright (c) 2024 by epo.de & Thomas Dix

 

12.06.2024 | Brasilianisches Sumpfgebiet: Starke Brände wüten im Pantanal (tagesschau)

12.06.2024 | Südöstliches Mittelmeer: Südeuropa von erster Hitzewelle des Jahres betroffen (tagesschau)

07.06.2024 | Folgen der Klimakrise:  Schäden werden bald nicht mehr versicherbar sein (SPIEGEL)

05.06.2024 | Steigender Meeresspiegel: Panama evakuiert Inselbewohner (RND)

05.06.2024 | MCC: (epo.de)

05.06.2024 | Mehr als 40 Grad in Texas erwartet – Teilen der USA droht extreme Hitze (SPIEGEL)

05.06.2024 | Klimawandel: Menschengemachte Erderwärmung nimmt schneller zu denn je (ZEIT)

01.06.2024 | Hochwassergefahr nach Dauerregen: Süddeutschland rüstet sich für Überflutungen (SPON)

29.05.2024 | Klimawandel: Ein unverantwortliches soziologisches Experiment (DLF Nova)
In nur wenigen Jahrzehnten wird die Arktis im Sommer eisfrei sein. In den Alpen werden die Gletscher verschwinden. Die Welt, in der wir leben, wird dadurch komplett verändert. Ein Audio-Vortrag des Klimaforschers Dirk Notz.

29.05.2024 | Hitzewelle in Südostasien: 52,3 Grad – höchste je gemessene Temperatur in Indien (SPON)

29.05.2024 | Ostafrika: Zunehmende Wetterextreme lassen die Kräfte der Menschen schwinden (epo.de)

28.05.2024 | Indien und Bangladesch: 30 Millionen Menschen nach Tropensturm ohne Strom (tagesschau)

28.05.2024 | Cyclone Remal Tears Through India and Bangladesh, Killing at Least 23 (New York Times)

28.05.2024 | Extremhitze in Pakistan: Bei Temperaturen bis zu 53 Grad erleiden hunderte Menschen Hitzschlag (euronews)

28.05.2024 | The drought that forced a Himalayan village in Nepal to relocate (BBC)

27.05.2024 | Viele Tote nach Stürmen in den USA (tagesschau)

24.05.2024 |Extremhitze: Pakistan erwartet Temperaturen von mehr als 50 Grad (SPON)

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24.05.2024 | Last summer’s temperature rise could be worse than we thought (Guardian)

21.05.2024 | Hitzewelle in Mexiko: Brüllaffen fallen tot von Bäumen (SPON)

19.05.2024 | Lancet-Bericht über Auswirkungen extremer Temperaturen in Lateinamerika (amerika21)

18.05.2024 | Fifty dead in heavy rain, floods in central Afghanistan, official says (reuters)

17.05.2024 | Klimapolitik der Ampelregierung: Das Klimaschutzgesetz reicht nicht aus (DLF)

17.05.2024 | Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report (Guardian) :: A 1C increase in global temperature leads to a 12% decline in world gross domestic product, researchers have found!

14.05.2024 | Death Toll In Indonesia’s Floods, Volcanic Mudflows Rises To 52 (OMMCOM News)

13.05.2024 | Mehr als 300 Tote bei Sturzfluten in Afghanistan (tagesschau)

13.05.2024 | Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul may have more record level flooding (reuters)

13.05.2024 | Tausende Menschen fliehen vor Waldbränden in Kanada (tagesschau)

11.05.2024 | Hitzewelle sorgt für Temperaturrekorde in Mexiko (latinapress)

10.05.2024 | Südostasien ächzt unter Hitzewelle (tagesschau)

10.05.2024 | Rekord-Hitzewelle in Thailand führt zu mehr als 60 Toten 

09.05.2024 | In Brasilien sind weite Teile des Bundesstaates Rio Grande do Sul nach starken Regenfällen, die weiter andauern, überflutet. Die Nachrichtenagentur latina-press berichtet unter Berufung auf das Bulletin des Zivilschutzes, dass die Unwetter mehr als 100 Tote, 131 Vermisste und 372 Verletzte gefordert haben. 207.800 Menschen sind obdachlos. Insgesamt sind 1,4 Millionen Menschen von der Katastrophe betroffen.

08.05.2024 | El Niño und Klimawandel verursachen Rekordkatastrophen in Lateinamerika

08.05.2024 | Der April 2024 war laut EU-Umweltdienst Copernicusder weltweit wärmste April seit Beginn der Wetteraufzeichnungen

07.05.2024 | Rettung für die Reichen in Afrika: »Die grausame Ironie des Klimawandels« (SPON)

(… Redakteur leider krank und außer Gefecht…)

26.04.2024 | Klimawandel könnte bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts zum Hauptgrund für den Verlust der biologischen Vielfalt werden (PIK)

19.04.2024 | Fast 19.000 Wetterstationen haben seit 1. Januar Rekordtemperaturen verzeichnet, berichtet die Washington Post.

“Nearly nineteen thousand (19,000) weather stations have notched record high temperatures since Jan. 1.” (Source: Earth’s Record Hot Streak Might be a Sign of a New Climate Era, The Washington Post, April 19, 2024)

20.02.2024 | Amazonas-Regenwald auf der Kippe | “Der Amazonas-Regenwald könnte sich einem Kipppunkt nähern, der zu einem großflächigen Zusammenbruch mit schwerwiegenden Auswirkungen auf das globale Klima führen könnte. (Solarify) 

09.02.2024 | Earth | “January 2024 was the warmest January in the ERA5 data recordanuary 2024 was the warmest January in the ERA5 data record, going back to 1940. The global surface air temperature was 13.14°C, which is 0.70°C above the 1991-2020 average for January and 0.12°C above the previous warmest January, in 2020. Taking into account the average of the last twelve months, the global mean temperature was the highest on record at 0.64°C above the 1991-2020 average and 1.52°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.” (Copernicus Climate Change Service)

08.02.2024 | USA | St. Paul, Minn. | Globe breaks heat record for 8th straight month. Golfers get to play in Minnesota’s “Lost Winter of 2023-24.” (AP)

07.02.2024 | United Kingdom | Britain braces for Arctic blast of heavy snow and ice | Guardian

25.01.2024 | Im Süden und Osten Spaniens wurden an die 30 Grad Celsius gemessen. Laut der Wetterbehörde Aemet zeigte das Thermometer am Nachmittag in der Region Valencia 29,5 Grad. In der Region Murcia maßen die Behörden 28,5 Grad 

21.01.2024 | In den USA sterben laut dpa Dutzende Menschen wegen eisiger Temperaturen

15.01.2024 | USA | Right Wing Climate groups urge Speaker Johnson to fight back on Biden’s ‘Green New Deal agenda’ 

15.01.2024 | Brasilien |  Starkregen und Überschwemmungen in Rio de Janeiro – mehrere Tote: “In manchen Teilen von Rio de Janeiro fiel binnen 24 Stunden so viel Regen wie sonst im ganzen Januar: Mindestens neun Menschen kamen ums Leben. Der Bürgermeister forderte die Menschen auf, aus Sicherheitsgründen daheimzubleiben.”

14.01.2024 | USA | John Kerry to step down as US climate envoy

11.01.2024 | Mozambique | How to cyclone-proof your life: Mozambicans learn to build stronger houses as climate change brings bigger and deadlier storms.

 

UNESCO State of the Ocean Report 2024

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The UNESCO State of the Ocean Report offers insights on ocean-related scientific activities and analyses describing the current and future state of the ocean.

The State of the Ocean Report has the ambition to inform policymakers about the state of the ocean and to stimulate research and policy actions towards ‘the ocean we need for the future we want’, contributing to the 2030 Agenda and in particular SDG 14, as well as other global processes such as the UNFCCC, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Structured around the seven UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Outcomes, the Report provides important information about the achievement of the UN Ocean Decade objectives and, in the longer term, about ocean well-being.

More than 100 authors from 28 countries contributed to the Report. The different sections provide insights on ocean-related scientific activities and analyses describing the current and future state of the ocean, addressing physical, chemical, ecological, socio-economic and governance aspects.