Climate emergency: 2025 declared international year of glaciers

Published on January 21, 2025

As glaciers disappear at an alarming rate due to climate change, the UN General Assembly has declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP).

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Carbon offsets abuse most common form of greenwashing in Southeast Asia; Malaysia is a false claims hotspot: NGO tracker

January 21, 2025
But the findings barely scratch the surface of the greenwashing problem in the region, said RimbaWatch, the Malaysia non-profit behind the database. Southeast Asia needs provisions for penalties and better policing of green claims, it said.

The war of words over climate change

January 21, 2025
Up a narrow street in the Spanish province of Valencia, dozens of vehicles lay piled up like twigs after a storm. A year’s worth of rain had fallen on the coastal region in just eight hours, flooding towns and killing more than 200 people who had little warning of the apocalypse that was coming. Early analysis suggests that global warming increased the likelihood and intensity of the extreme downp