climate change

2022 was a year of climatic extremes, such as droughts or floods, record temperatures and concentrations of greenhouse gases, according to data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)

The Great Salt Lake in Utah, in the United States, could disappear within five years if there are no dramatic cuts in water consumption,

In the remainder of the century and if urgent measures are not taken to stop global warming, a minimum of 60% of the glaciers of the entire globe could disappear before 2100.

Some 10 million hectares of forests are destroyed each year, an area larger than the size of Portugal and equivalent to that of Iceland, according to the UN, which points to this "alarming" global deforestation,

2022 was confirmed as the hottest ever recorded in the United Kingdom, with the average annual temperature breaking the ten-degree barrier for the first time. 

This beginning of the year seems to indicate that it will be similar to 2022, recorded as the warmest year in history and one of the driest. And it is that these first days of January we are witnessing unusual temperatures in the whole of Europe.

The Natural History Museum identified 351 new species of animals and plants. In the list, led by invertebrate animals, there are 85 species of wasps, 84 beetles, 34 moths and seven individual frogs due to their size.

In a moment of global importance that gives a second chance at survival to a nearly extinct species, 10 eastern koalas were released into the 400-hectare Barrington Peaks National Park

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They were nothing more than proof of the impact of this phenomenon induced by human activity and of the urgency to act before it is too late, experts and various United Nations agencies linked to the environment and development point out.