Since December, residents of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago have spotted more than 50 bears, who are “chasing people and entering residential buildings” As human activity…
Taking up almost the entire southern tip of India, Tamil Nadu is the country’s second-largest economy. Its delta region is considered to be the “rice…
Hopes that global CO2 emissions might be nearing a peak have been dashed by preliminary data showing that output from fossil fuels and industry will…
Most of rural Africa still has no electricity, and tens of millions of families must cook on open fires and light their homes with candles…
A new study investigates the intersection of climate change and real estate, and finds that higher elevations bring higher values. It’s no surprise that a list…
Limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius will require not only reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, but also active removal of carbon dioxide from the…
COP24 venue Spodek arena in Katowice, Poland. Milosz Maslanka/Shutterstock Federica Genovese, University of Essex Representatives of almost all the countries on the planet are gathering…
Our oceans are threatened by three major challenges: climate change, overfishing and pollution. Plastic pollution is of growing concern, and has gained international attention from…
The human fingerprint on this week’s extreme heat. Soaring temperatures shattered records from Ottawa to Oman this week, as the Northern Hemisphere endured an oppressive hot spell….
Brussels is ramping up the pressure to drop coal, but doing so could cost the fragile government crucial votes. Spain’s new Socialist government is trying…
In the game of tackling climate change, who would be the champion? By Tan Copsey and Bridgette Burkholder The World Cup starts today. Billions of…
Special Representative for Climate Change Xie Zhenhua, China (L) EU Commissioner for Energy and Climate Action Miguel Arias Canete (R) attend the second Ministerial on…
Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (colloquially known as the…