Climate crisis could reverse progress in achieving gender equality
Dec 04, 2019 12:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
People who directly depend on the natural world for their livelihoods, like farmers and fishers, will be among the greatest victims of the climate crisis. In vulnerable hotspots, such as the arid lands of Kenya and...
Climate crisis: six steps to making fossil fuels history
Dec 04, 2019 12:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In shouting system change not climate change, young people understand that the 3-4℃ warmer world were headed for would be far more painful, costly and disruptive than any short-term costs or inconvenience we face from...
Did people or climate kill off the megafauna? Actually, it was both
Dec 04, 2019 12:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Earth is now firmly in the grips of its sixth mass extinction event, and its mainly our fault. But the modern era is definitely not the first time humans have been implicated in the extinction of a wide range of...
Climate crisis: the countryside could be our greatest ally – if we can reform farming
Nov 05, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Around 20% of the UKs farms account for 80% of the countrys total food production, and they do this on about half of all the farmed land there is. At least 80% of farms in the UK dont produce very much at all. In...
Developing countries can prosper without increasing emissions
Sep 22, 2017 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
One of the ironies of fighting climate change is that developed countries which have benefited from decades or centuries of industrialisation are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting...
Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
Aug 16, 2017 12:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
A little over half the worlds population sees climate change as a serious problem (54% according to a 40-nation Pew Research survey). Coincidentally, roughly the same number identify as Christian or Muslim (55%). On the...
Climate Change Killing Hundreds Of Thousands In Europe
Aug 08, 2017 15:48 pm UTC| Technology
The vast majority of scientists all over the world have already settled on the existence of climate change and the huge role that humanity has played in speeding it up. Now, new data is coming in that indicates how many...
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