What Is Green, But Will Put Us in the Black?
What is green but can put us in the black? The answer to this riddle is green roofs and adopting them will put us in…
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October-December 2025 (ONE)
Scientists Warn Major Glaciers Won’t ‘Survive This Century,’ With Grave Impacts for Billions
“Preservation of glaciers is not just an environmental, economic, and societal necessity,” said one expert. “It’s a matter of survival.” Scientists on Friday spent the…
The Long and Winding Road of Decarbonization
The goal of climate neutrality by 2050 is still far, too far away. A brief reflection on the obstacle course we are facing today. The…
Warm Seawater Encroaches on Major Antarctic Ice Shelf
In unprecedented detail, new research illuminates the seasonal flow of warm water toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans The vast…
Earth’s energy budget is out of balance – here’s how it’s warming the climate
The Sun over Earth, seen from the International Space Station. NASA, CC BY-NC Scott Denning, Colorado State University You probably remember your grade school science…
Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
Sometimes realisation comes in a blinding flash. Blurred outlines snap into shape and suddenly it all makes sense. Underneath such revelations is typically a much…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Power and gas ‘coupling’ seen as key to EU’s zero-carbon quest
As Europe moves towards net-zero emissions, policymakers are looking at all available sources of energy, including new low-carbon gases like hydrogen, to decarbonise at least…
IPCC special report finds oceans and cryosphere changing rapidly due to global warming
As a massive expanse of unusually warm water spreads across the northeastern Pacific Ocean for the second time in the past five years, the latest…