Is warming in the Arctic behind this year's crazy winter weather?
Jan 11, 2018 15:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Damage from extreme weather events during 2017 racked up the biggest-ever bills for the U.S. Most of these events involved conditions that align intuitively with global warming: heat records, drought, wildfires, coastal...
Green bonds are taking off - and could help save the planet
Jan 05, 2018 17:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The tragedy of the horizons, a term coined by Canadas Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has been haunting the financial sector ever since climate change began posing serious threats to the planet. As Carney...
Read this before you go sales shopping: the environmental costs of fast fashion
Dec 28, 2017 13:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature
Its tough to love our clothes and keep wearing them for longer when we are faced with a tempting array of newness on offer in the shops. But before you head out into the January sales for those irresistible deals, spare a...
Over 50 U.S. Mayors Ignore President Trump’s Decision, Proceeds With Paris Climate Accord
Dec 14, 2017 11:48 am UTC| Science Nature
In continued defiance against the Trump administrations mandate to keep supporting the fossil fuel industry and renege on the voluntary commitments made by the U.S. upon signing the Paris Climate Accord, a coalition of...
California fire damage to homes is less 'random' than it seems
Dec 08, 2017 03:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In the midst of the many wildfire emergencies that have faced California this year, it can often seem that the way houses burn, or dont, is random. The thing is, though, its not. Firefighters and researchers alike have...
Will Puerto Ricans return home after Hurricane María?
Nov 18, 2017 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Even before this years devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would decline over the...
Green finance? Why global banks are pledging billions to fight climate change
Nov 11, 2017 01:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Banking giant HSBC has pledged US$100 billion (76 billion) to fight climate change, to be spent on sustainable finance and investment over the next eight years. It also commits to increasing its own use of renewable energy...
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