Oct 11, 2023 03:47 am UTC| Life
Climate risks can be complex to deal with because they dont respect country borders. Hazards in one region can have negative repercussions in another. These are known as transboundary climate risks, and theyre a growing...
Indonesian urban poor suffer the most in extreme weather caused by climate change
Oct 11, 2023 03:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
Extreme weather as a result of climate change has caused disasters and catastrophes around the globe. In mid-2023, flash floods inundated roads and displaced millions in the US, South Korea, Pakistan and Turkey. Asia...
Even temporary global warming above 2℃ will affect life in the oceans for centuries
Oct 11, 2023 03:44 am UTC| Nature
There is growing consensus that our planet is likely to pass the 1.5℃ warming threshold. Research even suggests global warming will temporarily exceed the 2℃ threshold, if atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) peaks at levels...
6 reasons why global temperatures are spiking right now
Oct 09, 2023 13:04 pm UTC| Nature
The world is very warm right now. Were not only seeing record temperatures, but the records are being broken by record-wide margins. Take the preliminary September global-average temperature anomaly of 1.7C above...
New Zealand’s carbon emissions are on the way down – thanks in part to policies now under threat
Oct 09, 2023 03:46 am UTC| Nature Politics
It may have been largely overlooked in the election debates, but New Zealands greenhouse gas emissions are finally on the way down. Annual emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels are the lowest...
Made in America: how Biden's climate package is fuelling the global drive to net zero
Oct 06, 2023 02:31 am UTC| Politics
This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australias energy transition. Just over a year since US President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, its...
The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet
Oct 05, 2023 03:34 am UTC| Insights & Views
Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather extremes are making agriculture increasingly precarious, especially...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects