The UK carbon dioxide shortage still hasn't been resolved – here are some long-term answers
Feb 18, 2022 08:15 am UTC| Nature
The UKs supply of carbon dioxide (CO₂), which is essential for everything from critical NHS operations to keeping food fresh while being transported, remains in jeopardy. It was recently ensured for the second time in a...
Rising costs of climate change threaten to make skiing a less diverse, even more exclusive sport
Feb 18, 2022 08:10 am UTC| Insights & Views
Watching skiers compete almost entirely on artificially made snow at the 2022 Winter Olympics, we found it hard not to think about climate change and what it will mean for the future of the winter sports industry and who...
Trying to cool the Earth by dimming sunlight could be worse than global warming
Feb 08, 2022 03:43 am UTC| Nature
A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month, including technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI). This involves a fleet of aeroplanes releasing aerosol particles ...
Safe havens for coral reefs will be almost non-existent at 1.5°C of global warming – new study
Feb 02, 2022 08:44 am UTC| Nature
Coral reefs have long been regarded as one of the earliest and most significant ecological casualties of global warming. In new research published in the journal PLOS Climate, we found that the future of these tropical...
US tax credits for wind and solar mostly benefit big banks
Jan 26, 2022 04:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
How can countries build renewable energy at the scale and rate needed to prevent dangerous climate change? The plan so far has been to try and make the cost of generating electricity from renewable sources cheap enough to...
How measuring emissions in real time can help cities achieve net zero
Dec 20, 2021 09:51 am UTC| Nature Science
Like many cities across the world, Glasgow host to the UN climate conference COP26 has a target to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This is a massive undertaking for any city. It means emissions from...
Climate transition delay could cost the UK trillions
Dec 04, 2021 01:55 am UTC| Economy
From power plants to coffee cups or your childhood home, everything that makes up the economy has a life expectancy. Much of what we make and consume lasts just weeks, months or years. However, lots of infrastructure...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects