Global warming

The start was in Australia, where thousands of students did not enter classrooms today.

The youth gathered in central Sydney and called on large corporations and Australian governments to take urgent action against climate change.

The processions have already started in many European cities, with a total of 150 countries expected.

Millions of children across the world carried out the largest global climate protests in history on Sept. 20, demanding adults act now to stop the environmental disaster.

Turkish students will join "Fridays For Future", an international climate movement, to protest against the lack of action on the climate crisis.

As adults seem to have failed in putting enough pressure on governments about climate crisis, children and youngsters have taken over the job of ringing alarm bells about the urgency of climate change, according to high school student Selin Gören.

Investing $ 1.8 trillion over the next decade - in climate change adaptation measures - could bring in net benefits worth more than $ 7 trillion. These are the conclusions of a global cost-benefit analysis, outlining five strategies for adapting the world to climate change.

Climate change problems pose a significant threat to marine species and the issue should be urgently addressed, a wildlife protection official recently told Anadolu Agency.       

The oceans, which are the source of life on Earth, could become our worst enemy globally, if nothing is done to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is said in a UN report, BTA reported.

Six states in Brazil's Amazon region requested military help on Aug. 24 to combat record fires that are tearing through the rainforest, provoking an international outcry because of the Amazon's central role in combating global warming.

Temperatures in the world have already risen by 1 degree Celsius.

Countries in the Northern Hemisphere can expect longer heat waves in the summer and more consecutive days of heavy rainfall with bad consequences if global warming containment targets are not met, BTA reports.

Changing the human diet in favor of plant-based products can help combat climate change, according to UN experts, quoted by the BNR.

A large-scale report on land use and climate change indicates that high consumption of meat and dairy products from western countries is fueling global warming.