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The collective climate targets submitted by Governments to the UN will lead to global emissions far above the levels needed to hold warming to below 2°C, researchers at the Climate Action Tracker warned today.

The analysis by the consortium of four research organisations was released today in Bonn where Governments are meeting for the second to last week of negotiations ahead of the Paris summit on climate action.
 

While many are used to thinking of ants as pests (especially during the summertime), new research published in British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology says not so fast. Ants are actually pest controllers. They’re efficient, sustainable and safe, and these little guys are making a big impact on our planet.

A new satellite study has calculated that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, around 422 trees for every person, although the number is believed to have dropped by 46 percent since the start of human civilisation. The Yale-led international research found the result of the tree count is around seven and a half times more than some previous estimates. 

A ambos lados del estrecho de Bering, el hielo marino del verano ha vuelto a caer a un nivel que está llevando a miles de morsas a las playas costeras.  Fotos tomadas en Ryrkaypiy, Chukotka, Rusia, muestran un estimado de 5,000 morsas en ese lugar, mientras que a través del estrecho en los Estados Unidos, miles más se observaron cerca del pueblo de Point Lay, Alaska. 

El material particulado y la contaminación atmosférica por NO2 se asocian con un mayor riesgo de ataques cardíacos severos a pesar de estar dentro de los niveles recomendados por la Unión Europea, según un estudio presentado en el Congreso de la Sociedad Europea de Cardiología (ESC por sus siglas en inglés) por el Dr. Jean-Francois Argacha, cardiólogo del Hospital Universitario de Bruselas (UZ Brussel-Vrije Universiteit Brussel).