Environment

Turkey has shut down the busy Dardanelles Strait for a second day as firefighters battled flames near the tourist town of Canakkale

Years of drought have shrunken the majestic Lake Habbaniyah, keeping away the holidaymakers who once flocked there during summer.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company also disclosed for the first time the emissions from its operations, which reached about 24 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022.

Latakia has faced widespread fires in recent summers, stretching over thousands of hectares, damaging farmland, forests and wilderness.

Algerian civil protection services said 15 fires were raging across eight regions on Tuesday at Skikda, Jijel, Bouira, Bejaia, Tebessa, Medea, Setif, and El Tarf.

With few places to seek relief from a weeks-long blistering heatwave, Moroccans are resorting to swimming in reservoirs and other dangerous spots to escape the high temperatures.

New records have already been set for specific weather stations in parts of the northern hemisphere and new national records may also be set.

The controversial chair of the upcoming COP28 summit, Sultan al-Jaber, has warned private and national oil firms that they must slash emissions, despite his own role as the CEO of the UAE's national oil company.

The Net-Zero Insurance Alliance is one of several United Nations-backed alliances that are supposed to coalesce financial institutions to drive efforts towards reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The head of COP28 climate summit and CEO of the UAE's national oil company, Sultan al-Jaber, acknowledged the inevitability of reducing fossil fuel use.