Environment - The Deeping

Sep 27, 2023

The Consequences of Climatic Alterations on Susceptible Populations

Prelude Climatic transformations rank amongst this era’s paramount challenges. Augmented global temperatures, the dissolution of polar ice, and ascendant oceanic tides aren’t mere academic notations but palpable truths for multitudes globally. Particularly susceptible are the often-overlooked vulnerable populations, bearing the severe repercussions of these metamorphosing climes. This discourse delves profoundly into the ramifications

Sep 26, 2023

Was the freak ‘medicane’ storm that devastated Libya a glimpse of North Africa’s future?

Mike Rogerson, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Belkasem Alkaryani, University of Tobruk, and Mahjoor Lone, Northumbria University, Newcastle Storm Daniel landed on the Libyan coastal town of Toukrah in the early hours of September 10 and started moving east. Soon the wind was rising and heavy rain falling, forcing people to stay indoors. By afternoon

Sep 26, 2023

Solar-powered looms boost income and safety for India’s silk weavers

A Delhi-based social enterprise is selling solar-powered looms to women artisans across India, aiming to promote self-reliance and sustainable practices Budhari Goyari is busy reeling cocoons of ‘eri’ silk in the courtyard of her two-room house in Bhaoragwaja village, in the Kokrajhar district of Assam, north-eastern India. Beside her container of silk cocoons,

Sep 21, 2023

What to know about Indonesia’s decision to open its international carbon markets

Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s administration recently announced that Indonesia’s carbon market is open for international investors. Last year, projects that issued new carbon credits were stopped on the grounds that verification processes didn’t follow Indonesian law. But now, new carbon market projects will be permitted, provided they adhere to national regulations, which are

Sep 20, 2023

India’s million-dollar betel leaf industry is suffering in a warming world

Erratic regional rainfall and temperature fluctuations pose risks for the hugely popular but climatically sensitive plant Farmers across India are reporting that climate change is adversely affecting the quality of the betel leaf. The hugely popular plant, consumed by millions of people in South Asia, is struggling amid erratic rainfall and unusual temperature

Sep 20, 2023

Tapping the Sun for renewable hydrogen

In July 2023, when southern Europe endured an unprecedented heatwave with temperatures soaring to around 45 °C, a particular place in Spain got much hotter without becoming headline news. The place was a test site in Almería province and the temperatures reached 1 400 °C. High hopes The eye-popping heat levels were created at

Sep 14, 2023

The Cruciality of Climate Pedagogy and Enlightenment: A Rigorous and Extended Scrutiny

In the expansive tapestry of human chronicles, the onset of this present era represents an epoch unlike any other. As humanity treads forth into this nascent chapter, the tales we craft, and the stories we share, seem overwhelmingly overshadowed by the omnipresent and ominous spectre of climatic metamorphosis. Dialogues, debates, and discourses continually

Sep 13, 2023

From fatal allergies to heart attacks and cholera – the devastating health effects of global warming in Africa

Lenore Manderson, University of the Witwatersrand The winds that whip the towns of the Eastern Cape in South Africa have the power to generate energy. But on a dry, hot day, those winds can gather up embers and dump them into tinder dry savannah and forest, destroying crops, fodder and homes, and taking

Sep 13, 2023

Greece’s record rainfall and flash floods are part of a trend – across the Mediterranean, the weather is becoming more dangerous

Ioanna Stamataki, University of Greenwich Recent images of the devastating flash floods caused by Storm Daniel in Greece hit close to home literally and figuratively. As a Greek who has completed a PhD and worked for the past eight years on flash floods, the scenes unfolding across my homeland are painfully real: a

Sep 11, 2023

Analysis of the stationarity and correlation of the global temperature and carbon dioxide time series

The rapid and ongoing phenomenon of global warming has negativelyimpacted both the Earth’s environment and its inhabitants. Time series and regression analysis techniques play a significant role in weather forecasting and the interpretation of climate data. One of the key characteristics of time series analysisis stationarity.Methods: In this article, we explore how detrending

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