UN Secretary-General launches AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, calling on AI companies to disclose carbon, water and land footprints
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In recent years, marine heatwaves have been taking an ever-greater toll on the world’s oceans and their ecosystems. Amplified by increasing global warming, these events are occurring more frequently and lasting longer. The Arctic is not spared from this trend either, as it is warming faster than any other region on our planet. However, due to local processes and conditions, marine heatwaves in the Arctic differ fundamentally from those in non-polar oceans. A recent study, led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, summarizes how these events have developed over recent decades, what science knows about the driving forces behind them, and where there are still knowledge gaps to be filled.
A new study published in the journal Nature reveals that the thawing of permafrost soils does not only release carbon, but may also promote its removal from the atmosphere.
New study shows that the environmental damage caused by the world’s highest-consuming 10% of people is worth $1.7 trillion to $5.7 trillion a year. At the central and upper estimates this is several times more than the international community has committed to spend on climate action and biodiversity conservation combined, and is on the scale of the funding estimated to be needed globally to address these crises.
A global study of more than 5,100 species of plants and animals challenges long-held assumptions about which species are most threatened by climate change. Almost half the species included in the study went locally extinct at the warmest part of the region where they were previously found.