The aircraft was leased from Pakistan International Airlines shortly after Emirates' founding in 1985 and flew mostly to Mumbai during its short service, until they switched to their present-day wide bodies.
This picture was found on flight aware.
Aircraft type: Boeing 737-340
Registration: AP-BCD
Primary route: DXB -> BOM
China has the highest annual coal consumption, followed by India due to their high population size. However, per capita consumption remains highest in the United States, Europe, Canada, and a few developed Asian countries.
In absolute terms some nations like China do produce a lot (~20 times) more CO2 than Canada, for example. But then again they have far (~35 times) more people too. And they export a lot of manufactured goods, which requires local emissions to achieve. Canada produces oil exports to other nations, which also requires local CO2 emissions to achieve. So how do we sort it all out?
The most fair measure for international comparison is "Per capita consumption-based CO2 emissions", which takes into account the population plus CO2 exports and imports. So this includes CO2 emitted in one country for goods consumed in another such as oil, TVs, phones, whatever. We have this information. See source links below.
Canada is among the worst. Top 10 for sure, after the Middle East, Australia and the USA. Almost 2 times as bad as China, 7 times India. Again, including CO2 trade to be fair to everyone.
The US is 2.3 times China, and 9.2 times India.
Why is this? Because the largest overall correlation to CO2 emissions per capita is wealth. Broadly speaking: rich people typically spend/consume more of everything, both as a nation and individually. CO2 emissions as well.
In my opinion nobody should get a free pass, but we all need to at least recognize our fair share in the effort to get climate change under control. And that doesn't necessarily mean absolute parity. For example, living conditions may require more energy usage in some places compared to others for seasonal heating, air conditioning, etc. It is complicated.
But in the end, people who already have lower emissions simply can't reduce as much as people who have way higher emissions. We cannot reach the required targets if the top consumers don't reduce proportionally.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita
The majority of Canadian and American women under age 40 do not yet have children, signalling a broad shift in when and whether people are choosing to have families.
Both countries now face a deepening fertility crisis. For Canada, it’s stark, with the country hitting a record-low fertility rate of 1.25 children per woman in 2024, putting it on the ultra-low fertility list — below 1.30 — alongside Japan, Singapore and Spain.
The American fertility rate isn’t as low, but it just dipped to a new record: 1.6 children per woman.
“The biggest decline we see in fertility is actually not of third births or second births,” says Lyman Stone, a demographer with the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. “It’s the first births.”
Canada and the U.S. are far from alone — most wealthy Western countries have seen fertility rates decline since the 1970s. But it does mean the West is not producing children near the replacement level for a modern society, which relies on young workers to cover the costs of older generations.
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A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit.
It's absolutely wild to read that we are already at the 'point of no return.' It feels like everyone talks about this stuff but doesn't actually prepare for the massive logistical nightmare of moving a whole city. Are we just moving toward all coastal cities being depopulated and then eventually abandoned?
Until recently, Iceland was the only Arctic nation without mosquitoes. This was a rare exception in a region where mosquitoes emerge in vast numbers each summer, tormenting wildlife and people alike. That distinction is now gone. The detection of mosquitoes just north of Reykjavík in 2025 reflects an ecological shift already underway. As the Arctic warms and human activity expands across the region, species are moving in new ways and at new scales.
Costa Rican women had an average of six children in 1950, today that figure has fallen to 1.2 — well below the 2.1 replacement rate needed to keep a population stable without migration. With fewer children in each home, every working-age Costa Rican will eventually shoulder a larger share of elder care and social security contributions for the generations above them.
Costa Rica is heading toward a future in which younger generations will face mounting pressure — financial, logistical, and emotional — to support an aging population that will only continue to grow as a share of the whole.
It is the Oum al-Maa (Mother of water) Lake, Ubari Sand Sea, Libya. It is a part of a chain of around 20 salt lakes located in the Sahara Desert, surrounded by vast sand dunes and palm trees.
Around 200,000 years ago, this region was a fertile area with rivers, but it eventually dried up, leaving behind these lakes. That is the reason they are called lakes and not oases. Now the water in these lakes comes from underground aquifers instead of rivers, allowing them to exist in one of the driest places on Earth. However, due to constant evaporation without replenishment from rivers, the lakes are extremely salty
The oil crisis triggered by the Iran war has changed the fossil fuel industry for ever, turning countries away from fossil fuels to secure energy supplies, the world’s leading energy economist said.
Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), also said that, despite pressure, the UK should forgo much of its potential North Sea expansion.