Climate Change

State Department personnel working at embassies and consulates around the world face heightened safety and security risks from climate disasters—particularly in countries ravaged by storms, heat and drought, say federal watchdogs. Investigators with the Government Accountability Office found that the risk to “diplomatic assets" is rising at many of the State Department’s…

Schoolchildren hold placards and chant as they attend a climate change protest organized by Youth Strike 4 Climate, opposite the Houses of Parliament in London. Credit: Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images Last July, NASA revealed the first images sent back from its highly anticipated new space telescope. Gorgeous photographs of…

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Nonfiction A Busy History How beavers shaped America—and not just its ecology Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip Twelve, 2022 ($30) Beavers, you may have noticed, are having a moment. These tireless engineers build woody dams that form ponds, which in turn filter out water pollution,…

Fictional films and TV have immense power to shift attitudes on political issues, yet they remain little-used in debates over climate change. — AFP ouc Follow us on Instagram, subscribe to our Telegram channel and browser alerts for the latest news you need to know. Thursday, 01 Dec 2022 9:07…

Entertainment Billie Eilish to headline Prince William’s Earthshot Prize awards ceremony November 29, 2022 - 3:26AM Oovvuu The Happier Than Ever singer and climate change activist will lead the line-up of entertainment at the ceremony, which will also feature performances from Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding and Chloe x Halle. The…

More than 34 million people in the U.S. don't have enough food. More diverse and adaptable crops are needed to address challenges in food production made worse by climate change, scientists say. Small, sweet berries called groundcherries may not feed the country, but along with other related "orphan crops," they…

On 2 October, Haiti announced that cholera had returned to the country. Memories from the previous epidemic, which killed close to 10,000 Haitians between 2010 and 2019, are still raw; now, with violent gangs fighting for control over the country and the health system in disarray, things could again get…

The prudential regulator criticised high variability in loss forecasts between the big five banks and called for them to improve data used to model climate risk. Environmental groups said the results were likely to produce conservative estimates, given the limited inclusion of “scope 3” data in the models. Over the…

A 50,000-year-old virus that has been trapped deep within the Siberian permafrost has been brought back to life by a team of scientists. More than a dozen prehistoric viruses were found by researchers for he French National Centre for Scientific Research, who made the discoveries while digging into ice cores…