Adequate energy storage needed to prevent crisis: PGN

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Adequate energy storage is necessary to prevent an energy crisis as the one that Europe is currently experiencing, president commissioner of state-run PT Perusahaan Gas Negara Tbk (PGN), Arcandra Tahar, has said.

Climate-fueled permafrost thaw threatens up to half of Arctic infrastructure -report

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Thawing permafrost could put as much as 50 percent of Arctic infrastructure at

Climate change: For 25th year in a row, Greenland ice sheet shrinks

2021 marked the 25th year in a row in which the key Greenland ice sheet lost more mass during the melting season, than it gained during the winter, according to a new UN-endorsed report issued on Friday. 

Permafrost researchers analyze the drivers of rapidly changing Arctic coasts

Arctic coasts are characterized by sea ice, permafrost and ground ice. This makes them particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change, which is already accelerating rapid coastal erosion.

China Is Finding Fewer Reliable Sources of Coal. That Could Be Bad News for the Climate

Until this month, much of the coal China imports to power its massive economy sailed into Chinese ports from Indonesia. But on Jan.

Meet the scientist moms fighting climate change for their children

Joellen Russell likes a big class. The bigger the better, actually, with online sections and huge auditoriums and students swarming her after a lecture – the way they did one Thursday morning this fall after her Intro to Oceanography course at the University of Arizona.

Scientists call for a moratorium on climate change research until governments take real action

Decades of scientific evidence demonstrate unequivocally that human activities jeopardise life on Earth. Dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system compounds many other drivers of global change.

What it will take for Africa’s agrifood systems to thrive

The year 2021 was one of critical conversations about global agrifood systems – the processes and methods through which farming produces food.

Africa faces an uphill battle against western emissions to combat climate change

The UN climate summit COP26, held in November 2021, focused the world’s attention on the urgent need to tackle climate change and concluded with 197 countries agreeing to the

Climate Change Job Vacancies Update - 12 January 2022

Don’t Look Up, dear Children of Dune

  “The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”

Another hellish day’: South America sizzles in record summer temperatures

Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Paraguay are reeling from a historic heatwave with temperatures as high as 113F

Amitav Ghosh: European colonialism helped create a planet in crisis

Indian author says pillaging of lands and killing of indigenous people laid foundation for climate emergency

Concerns for life in Western Australia’s Pilbara after 50.7C heat record matche

The heatwave sweeping the vast region prompts calls for authorities to consider how to make it more sustainable

Plants at risk of extinction as climate crisis disrupts animal migration

Heating and habitat loss drive birds and mammals to cooler areas where plants can not follow, study shows

Nearly quarter of world’s population had record hot year in 2021, data shows

Last year was sixth hottest ever recorded, scientists find World ‘warmer now than at any time in the past 2,000

The Guardian view on The Green Planet: verdant and necessary

David Attenborough’s new series takes aim at plant blindness, providing a vital service in the fight against global warming

Here’s how to repay developing nations for colonialism – and fight the climate crisis

The IMF allots voting rights and emergency funds according to an outdated and unfair quota system established in 1944, before most colonies were free. Let’s change it .

Inaction on global warming amounts to racism – let me tell you why

Because the global south is bearing the brunt of climate breakdown, it’s people of colour who are suffering most

Why our secret weapon against the climate crisis could be humour

We can’t just sit back and watch what’s happening to the planet. We are not an audience. Like it or not, we are in this story