Current emissions could already warm world to dangerous levels: study
Sep 27, 2016 18:52 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Current greenhouse gas concentrations could warm the world 3-7℃ (and on average 5℃) over coming millennia. Thats the finding of a paper published in Nature today. The research, by Carolyn Snyder, reconstructed...
What's holding Russia back from ratifying the Paris climate agreement?
Sep 27, 2016 17:23 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that his country will ratify the Paris climate agreement in October, a significant boost in the campaign to have the agreement become legally binding by the end of the...
IPCC chair Hoesung Lee: we can meet 2°C global warming target if we act fast
Sep 26, 2016 08:31 am UTC| Nature
Hoesung Lee was elected chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just one month before the landmark Paris climate talks of 2015. The agreement that emerged from that meeting committed the worlds...
Are we finally about to get a global agreement on aviation emissions?
Sep 26, 2016 06:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Tomorrow, delegates from more than 190 nations will begin an 11-day meeting in Montreal to determine the final form of a scheme to reduce greenhouse emissions from the aviation industry. The meeting the latest in a...
Why the International Criminal Court is right to focus on the environment
Sep 25, 2016 16:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
The International Criminal Court is not known for prosecuting people responsible for huge oil slicks, chopping down protected rainforests or contaminating pristine land. But these people may now one day find themselves on...
Business moves on climate as the Paris Agreement gets closer to sealing the deal
Sep 23, 2016 05:07 am UTC| Nature
The Paris climate agreement is getting closer to coming into force. This week 31 countries ratified the deal, including Brazil (the worlds 12th-largest greenhouse gas emitter), the United Arab Emirates and...
Scientist at work: Tracking melt water under the Greenland ice sheet
Sep 23, 2016 00:19 am UTC| Nature
During the past decade, Ive spent nearly a year of my life living on the Greenland ice sheet to study how melt water impacts the movement of the ice. What happens to the water that finds its way from the melting ice...
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