Q&A: What does the Brexit deal say about climate change and energy?
Last month, four years after the Brexit referendum, the UK and the EU agreed on a trade deal just days before the 31 December deadline. As well…
Climate Change
Climate change will be sudden and cataclysmic. We need to act fast
Tipping points could fundamentally disrupt the planet and produce abrupt change in the climate. A mass methane release could put us on an irreversible path…
Greta – A star in a galaxy of young climate activists
In 2019 the world was awed when Greta Thunberg emerged as a global activist against climate change. She was named “Time Person of the Year…
Super Typhoon Goni slams into Philippines as strongest landfalling tropical cyclone on record
Known as ‘Rolly’ in the Philippines, the storm likely caused catastrophic damage in the region of Catanduanes Island, where the typhoon made its initial landfall…
What is the climate impact of eating meat and dairy?
Food production accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and takes up half of the planet’s habitable surface. A taste for meat has had a…
How do climate change, migration and a deadly disease in sheep alter our understanding of pandemics?
A new framework for pathogen evolution exposes a world much more vulnerable to disease outbreaks than we previously believed, but it also reveals new insights…
Of hemp’s many uses, one of the most promising could be in construction
“Hempcrete,” made from the woody core of hemp, is showing promise as an environmentally friendly building material. October 6, 2020 — It has become almost…
How Cities Can Combat the Dangerous Combination of Extreme Heat and COVID
Heat is deadlier than other climate-related disasters, but the solutions are simpler. Labor Day Weekend usually signals the end of summer, but this year, it seems…
What Joe Biden’s US election victory means for climate change
Joe Biden’s US election victory has been hailed as a significant turning point in US policy on everything from racial injustice to the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are few…
Warmer climate and Arctic sea ice in a veritable suicide pact
Their ‘death spiral’ is a vicious melting-warming feedback, leading to more melting of snow and ice and still more warming, an ongoing cycle. Think of…
Climate literacy is essential for effective change
We need to make it easier to understand basic climate science and emissions reductions. We know less than we think we know about climate. And we…
China’s new carbon neutrality pledge: what next?
Experts react to President Xi’s statement that China will up its climate ambition by striving for carbon neutrality by 2060. In a virtual address to…
From Dust Bowl to Climigration
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie. Hurricanes and floods in the Southeast. “When the Levee Breaks” written by…