Climatology

More than 100 artists will take part in a global "Live Earth" concert on June 18 to galvanise demands for climate action, former US vice president Al Gore said Jan. 21.
      
"We are going to have one event all over the world on all seven continents," he announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
      

The Middle East must leave 40 percent of its oil reserves in the ground, and China, the US and Russia most of their coal if global warming is to be curbed, researchers said Jan. 7.
     

BELGRADE - The exhibition Fifth Report, which focuses on climate change, will open at the Gallery of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade on Tuesday, the Science Promotion Centre has stated.

After 1989, Romania has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions to less than half, Environment Minister and Vice President of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA), Attila Korodi told the U.N. Summit on Climate Change in New York.

A UN summit on climate change agreed to widen the use of renewable energy and raise billions of dollars in aid for developing countries in an effort to increase the prospects for a wide-ranging deal to slow global warming

Romania plays an important role in what regards the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in southeastern Europe, said, on Thursday, Jian Xie, an expert on environment with the World Bank, during a specialist conference.

The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record high in 2013, propelled by a surge in levels of carbon dioxide, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Surging levels of carbon dioxide sent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a new record in 2013, while oceans, which absorb the emissions, have become more acidic than ever, the UN said on Tuesday.
      

Turkey’s Chamber of Environmental Engineers (TMMOB) chair Baran Bozoğlu has said the current hydrological drought in the Konya Basin’s aquifers will be seen in other parts of the country if the necessary measures to combat the issue are not taken.

Last month was so hot it set a new record for the planet, marking the warmest May over land and water since record-keeping began in 1880, US authorities said Monday.
      
The combined average temperature across the globe was 15.54C, or 0.74C above the 20th century average, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.