File photo A report by the United Nations agency World Meteorological Organization said that floods from rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan displaced millions of people last year. The report said that record rains in Pakistan and famine in Africa affected millions of people, immense heat in China and Europe also affected millions of people….
Secretary-General António Guterres told a conference side event dedicated to the issue of preserving the world’s glaciers that new data released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) showed global average sea levels have already risen faster since 1900, “than over any preceding century in the last 3,000 years.” ‘Erased forever’ He said that “low-lying communities and entire countries could be…
A robot has been developed to understand the complex melting process of a huge glacier called Thwaites in West Antarctica. This robot has been named “Icefin”. Experts say that its melting can have profound negative effects on the planet. But the process of melting in this glacier is very complex. This glacier is larger than…
Scientists from the Department of Biology at the University of Ottawa in Canada examined samples taken from the Arctic’s Lake Hazen to study how climate change could cause viruses to be transmitted to other organisms. Melting glaciers as a result of rising global temperatures could potentially be the cause of the next deadly global pandemic,…
