Climate Change

A new report released Friday by the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines says the world’s biggest polluters should be held accountable for their outsize role in climate disasters, and provides a legal argument to do just that. While the human rights commission can’t penalize the companies itself, advocates…

Green roofs and gardens have the potential to revolutionise urban environments into the future as they boost biodiversity, clean polluted air, fight climate change and offer a pleasing aesthetic. In the 1988 Talking Heads song Nothing But Flowers, David Byrne envisaged a world in which civilisation had decayed and was…

National Textbook reviewers flagged references to vaccines, climate change, and race. Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, Feb. 24. Tristan Wheelock/Bloomberg By Moriah Balingit, Washington Post May 9, 2022 Last month, Florida’s Education Department accused publishers of trying to “indoctrinate” the…

From the business breakfasts with their steaming bain-maries to the climate change forums in draughty church halls, something is happening in this country. It has been happening right from the kick off, under the cover of the underpowered and then farcical campaign proper, with its stumbles turned into gaffes, and…

Methane from cattle burping in a California feed lot has been detected on satellites in something scientists studying animal science at the University of California at Davis say sheds light on how agriculture may be contributing to climate change. What to know: Microbes in the stomachs of cattle break down…

The operating room produces 70% of hospitals' greenhouse gas emissions, but two surgeons-in-training have come up with solutions to reduce that number. Credit: Jacob Dwyer/Michigan Medicine In April 2021, during the Leaders Summit on Climate, President Biden announced his goal to drastically reduce the United States' greenhouse gas emissions by…

About 75 percent of our food crops and more than 80% of wild plants require pollination by insects. The value of crop pollination alone is estimated at up to 577 billion US dollars per year worldwide. The best-known pollinators are bees, but these are by no means the only insects…

A major sticking point at the last U.N. climate change conference, known as COP26, was the matter of how much money rich countries are going to give poor countries to fight climate change. This question of so-called climate finance is usually framed as a matter of justice: Rich countries and…

Right now, at least 10,000 viruses capable of infecting humans are lurking in the wild, most of them circulating undetected in animals. Typically, these diseases don’t end up reaching us. But in some cases, a virus will leap from one species to another, a phenomenon known as a “viral spillover.”…

Switzerland has been a leader in sustainability, both in its national policies and in crafting international agreements. In 2017, it was named one of the top five countries achieving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, behind the Scandinavian countries. In 2019, Switzerland announced a goal to be carbon-neutral by…