Tag Archives: Climate Change

Any Concrete Progress in Climate Change Meetings? Disappointment Again! The impact of global climate change, which has been increasing since the industrial revolution of our world, mostly due to the use of energy-based fossil fuels by human beings, has been felt more in the last 60 years. Since 1988, Rio …

Methane reduction in the energy sector is a fast, actionable, and affordable way to combat global warming and help save millions of lives. By incentivizing companies to capture and use currently wasted gas, countries can eliminate a threat to human health and food security, increase energy access and help generate …

The global climate change in the Black Sea Region adversely affects hazelnut agriculture. Recently, the problem of hazelnut frostbite has emerged. Climate scientists state that hazelnut agriculture should be moved to higher elevations. Dr. Levent Kurnaz While it is stated that sudden changes in air temperatures caused by global climate …

Over 130 countries agreed on Friday to prioritize food and agriculture in their national climate plans during the U.N. Climate Change Conference – COP28 in Dubai in a move cheered by observers despite concerns over its silence on the role of fossil fuels. Food systems are estimated to be responsible for …

Zaharoula Vassilaki, an organic farmer from Greece, gazes admiringly at a massive olive tree on her land, estimated to be over two centuries old. Despite being struck by lightning years ago, the tree continues to yield. But climate change – in this case, the absence of deep winter – is …

A new study shows that reusing abandoned agricultural lands could be a useful strategy to tackle food insecurity and climate change. In many parts of the world, while new agricultural land is constantly being brought into use, too much agricultural land is being abandoned. Between 1992 and 2020, it is …

Natural and man-made disasters have caused 3.8 trillion dollars in crop and livestock losses over 30 years, the UN‘s Food and Agricultural Organization said on Oct. 13. Floods, droughts, insect infestations, storms, disease and war have caused about 123 billion dollars per year in lost food production between 1991 and 2021, the equivalent …

The informal meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Cordoba focused on the use of new technologies to advance food security, combat climate change and achieve agricultural sector profitability. (The acting Spanish minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Luis Planas, welcomes the European Agriculture Commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowski. © Pool PEUE/Julio Muñoz) The …

Recent research conducted in the eastern Black Sea region has unveiled a concerning trend of increasing evaporation casting a shadow over vital agriculture production. As temperatures continue to rise, the phenomenon has set off alarms about the sustainability of farming practices in the area. In light of diminishing precipitation, experts …

Turkish experts warn of wildfires, extreme weather events if climate change not tackled… ISTANBUL  Climate change causes a significant rise in glacial melting, and this indirectly triggers wildfires, said a Turkish academic. The increasing melting of the polar glaciers, which prevent the world from overheating by reflecting about 80% of …