'Worthless' forest carbon offsets risk exacerbating climate change
Aug 25, 2023 08:00 am UTC| Nature
In early 2023, the Guardian published an article suggesting that more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless. These credits are essentially a promise to protect forests and can be bought as a way to offset...
Aug 24, 2023 07:13 am UTC| Health
Marine mammals animals including whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, sea otters, dugongs and manatees are threatened by an array of human activities. Species such as the North Atlantic right whale, Rices whale and...
Aug 24, 2023 07:09 am UTC| Nature
After a rare three-year La Niña event brought heavy rain and flooding to eastern Australia in 2020-22, were now bracing for the heat and drought of El Niño at the opposite end of the spectrum. But while...
What harm could one coal mine do? Plenty, producing 1.7 Hiroshima bombs of heat
Aug 22, 2023 04:25 am UTC| Nature
This year, the Australian government rejected Clive Palmers coal mine proposal but approved three others. Over 100 more fossil fuel projects are in the decision pipeline. Why are we still approving coal projects when...
Aug 22, 2023 04:21 am UTC| Science
When soaring temperatures, extreme weather and catastrophic wildfires hit the headlines, people start asking for quick fixes to climate change. The U.S. government just announced the first awards from a US$3.5 billion fund...
To predict future sea level rise, we need accurate maps of the world's most remote fjords
Aug 22, 2023 04:19 am UTC| Nature
Understanding how glaciers interact with the ocean is akin to piecing together a colossal jigsaw puzzle. And on various icebreaker expeditions to some of the most remote fjords in northern Greenland, colleagues and I have...
A billion people in Africa are at a climate risk blind spot
Aug 22, 2023 04:19 am UTC| Nature
Disasters related to the weather or climate are becoming more common. Since 1970, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of weather-related disasters, causing economic damages that have surged a staggering 70...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight