#CLIMATE CHANGE

Switzerland and Italy have redrawn their border in Europe’s highest mountain range as melting glaciers shift the previously fixed frontier amid climate change.

Polish scientists and climate activists are warning that the country could face more extreme weather events owing to climate change and poor river management.

Freak weather patterns that have caused devastation in Central Europe stand to only get worse unless both politicians and the public assume joint responsibility for curbing climate change, according to an expert from the European Center for Ecohydrology.

A group of Hungarian lawmakers and representatives of NGOs met on Wednesday on a dried-out sandbank of the country’s second largest river to highlight the severe impact of a drought over July and August that damaged key crops.

Meteorologists say this September will be the hottest one in decades. 

Cities in Poland and the Czech Republic are seeing record numbers of bats taking over public places.

Austrian authorities are saying that the Hallstätter Glacier is now beyond saving, having lost one-third of its mass since 2006, Die Presse news website reported.

One of Europe's largest lakes is under threat from climate change, with rising water temperatures putting its indigenous ecosystem at risk.

Scientists are warning that rising temperatures may make Hungary’s climate unsuitable for production of white wine in the future.

Serbia’s largest salt lake, Rusanda, has dried up for the first time in recorded history due to an unprecedented heatwave.

While Poles are aware of the impact of climate change, they should learn more about the solutions in this area, a survey by the European Investment Bank shows.

Cities most exposed to air pollution in Poland will be obliged to create clean transport zones, according to a new bill, the climate ministry has said.

Poor and developing countries are projected to take the hardest hit.

Methane is the second-biggest cause of climate change after carbon dioxide.

The project will cost around EUR 20 billion and extend over 9,700 kms.

Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) confirmed preliminary projections that Europe’s biggest economy’s greenhouse emissions fell by around 10% year-on-year in 2023, putting the country on track to meet its 2030 climate targets.

Warm February is not an ordinary anomaly; it fits into the picture of global warming. “This must be taken seriously,” Professor Bogdan Chojnicki from the University of Life Sciences in Poznań told Science in Poland. In his opinion, this is a picture of system-wide climate change.

Germany will change its laws to allow carbon capture and storage technology in certain CO2-intensive industrial sectors as Europe’s biggest economy aims to become carbon neutral by 2045, Economy Minister Robert Habeck announced on Monday.