By Reuters and published by CNA PARIS: Longer, hotter summers are disrupting fashion’s seasonal calendar, forcing luxury brands to adapt designs and threatening sales of higher-margin winter clothing. The industry’s traditional cycle has long depended on consumers buying autumn and winter clothing as temperatures cool. But warmer autumns are delaying demand for coats and
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Climate change could force Bangkok to move, official warns
By AFP and published by CNA THAILAND may have to consider relocating its capital Bangkok because of rising sea levels, a senior official in the country’s climate change office told AFP on Wednesday (May 15). Projections consistently show that low-lying Bangkok risks being inundated by the ocean before the end of the century. Much
Read moreG7 holds ‘strategic’ talks in climate hotspot Italy
By AFP and published by CNA Turin, Italy – G7 ministers meet for environment and climate change talks in Turin today (Apr. 29), with experts urging the highly industrialised countries to use their political clout, wealth and technologies to end fossil fuel use. The Group of Seven meeting in the northern Italian city is
Read moreActivists glue themselves to Goya paintings in Spanish climate protest
By Reuters and published by The Indian Express Madrid – Climate activists glued themselves to the frames of two world-famous paintings by Spanish master Francisco de Goya in Madrid’s Prado museum on Saturday (Nov. 5), the latest in a string of protests targeting artworks across Europe. A man and a woman attached themselves to
Read moreClimate activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London
By AFP and published by CNA London – Environmental protesters threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at London’s National Gallery on Friday (Oct. 14), in the latest “direct-action” stunt targeting works of art. The gallery said the protesters caused “minor damage to the frame, but the painting is unharmed”. Protest group
Read moreUN sounds clarion call over humans ‘irreversible’ impact on climate
By Reuters Staff, published by Channel NewsAsia THE UN panel on climate change sounded a dire warning today (August 9), saying the world is dangerously close to runaway warming – and that humans are “unequivocally” to blame. Already, greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere are high enough to guarantee climate disruption for decades if
Read moreMore countries hike climate pledges, piling pressure on major emitters
By Reuters Staff, published by US News & World Report Brussels – A group of mostly smaller countries submitted new, more ambitious climate pledges to the United Nations this week, raising pressure on big emitters including China to do the same ahead of a major UN climate summit in November. UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa
Read moreClimate change linked to 5 million deaths a year, new study shows
By Bloomberg, published by The Straits Times Sydney – The extraordinarily hot and cold temperatures that are becoming more common as climate change accelerates are responsible for five million deaths globally every year. Extreme weather accounted for 9.4 per cent of all deaths globally between 2000 and 2019, according to researchers who on Wednesday (July
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