Climate crisis
Climate warming in Europe, municipality by municipality
Large investigation
Thursday 14 May 2020 |
Lorenzo Ferrari Ornaldo Gjergji
| OBC Transeuropa
In more than 35,000 European municipalities, average temperatures have risen by more than 2°C over the last fifty years. From big cities to small villages, the climate crisis reaches every corner of Europe – but citizens are rising up, and people in power are finally taking action.
Much progress to be made on gender equality and climate action
Tuesday 30 June 2020 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
Eurostat has just published the 2020 report on EU progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. Those where it has underperformed particularly affect women.
Beach erosion puts European seaside holidays at risk
Wednesday 22 July 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | MobileReporter
VoxEurop
The data on global warming suggests that many seaside resorts in Atlantic and Mediterranean Europe could lose their beaches due to sand erosion caused by rising sea levels and human activity.
The price of coastal flood mitigation in Europe
in depth
Wednesday 06 May 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | VoxEurop
MobileReporter
European countries are set to invest up to €2.82 billion per year until 2100 to avoid losing as much as €1.27 trillion due to climate-driven coastal flood damage, a new analysis by the EU Joint Research Center shows.
Carbon emissions: straight back to bad habits?
Tuesday 16 June 2020 |
Antoine de Ravignan | Alternatives Economiques
The Covid-19 crisis brought about unprecedented reductions in CO2 emissions and energy consumption, benefiting renewables. This effect may be temporary however – but it could also mark the beginning of an ecological transition compatible with safeguarding the planet.
Climate crisis makes beaches disappear
in depth
Wednesday 04 March 2020 |
Stefano Valentino | VoxEurop
MobileReporter
Europe is set to lose up to 15,000 km of shoreline due to erosion. The UK, France, Greece, Spain and Italy will be especially affected. And European holidaymakers will find less sand on beaches during their trips to warm destinations around the world.
Climate change is happening now in Europe
Tuesday 11 February 2020 |
Emanuela Barbiroglio | VoxEurop
Key climate hazards are already affecting Europe and will increasingly do so, a series of maps published by the European Environment Agency reveals. Impacts, calculated through different scenarios and models, can only be reduced by keeping the global temperature increase well below 2°Cs.
Cities slow to respond to challenges posed by climate change
Large investigation
in depth
Friday 21 June 2019 |
Nicolas Kayser-Bril | VoxEurop
Journalism++
An update on the temperature data from 558 cities and their surroundings in Europe shows that 2018 was the warmest year since 1900 in 203 cities. Local response to the climate breakdown varies widely, according to a survey of a 61 local authorities in six countries by the European Data Journalism Network.
Europe is getting warmer, and it’s not looking like it’s going to cool down anytime soon
Large investigation
Monday 24 September 2018 |
Nicolas Kayser-Bril | Journalism++
Pod črto
BiQdata
OBC Transeuropa
Alternatives Economiques
VoxEurop
Der Spiegel
MobileReporter
An exclusive analysis of over 100 million meteorological data points shows that every major city in Europe is warmer in the 21st century than it was in the 20th. Subarctic regions, Andalusia and southern Romania are most affected.
Heatwaves: global warming threatens more than 100,000 Slovenes
Large investigation
Tuesday 11 December 2018 |
Lenart J. Kučić | Pod črto
Longer uninterrupted heat periods in Slovenia will be increasingly frequent and intense. The country does not have an integrated strategy to combat climate change yet.
