Climate Change

In 2018, around 16 million people were displaced by extreme climate events. People from poorer countries flee more often as a result of climate events. Scientists at the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Biology in Plön and Meteorology in Hamburg have used a climate game to investigate how extreme climate…

Sir David Attenborough - Sir David Attenborough: 'Coronavirus pandemic has swept climate change off the front pages' - APSir David Attenborough has said the coronavirus pandemic has swept the problem of climate change from the front pages.The broadcaster and naturalist, who celebrated his 94th birthday in May, said the outbreak has made…

Long-term thermal sensitivity of Earth’s tropical forests By Martin J. P. Sullivan, Simon L. Lewis, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Carolina Castilho, Flávia Costa, Aida Cuni Sanchez, Corneille E. N. Ewango, Wannes Hubau, Beatriz Marimon, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Lan Qie, Bonaventure Sonké, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Timothy R. Baker, Roel J. W. Brienen, Ted R.…

San Luis Obispo had been considering a proposal to encourage all-electric buildings and move away from gas-fired energy like the power plant above in Los Angeles. (Los Angeles Times)To the editor: Last July, the union representing Los Angeles Department of Water and Power workers attacked Mayor Eric Garcetti over the…

The environmental movement’s past recently collided with its future. April 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, a milestone for environmentalism. A few days later, a global school strike was organized by Fridays for Future, the international coalition of young people inspired by Greta Thunberg’s protests against…

Photo: GettyThe worst-case scenario with coronavirus is not mass death. It’s that people come to accept mass death—to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 seconds as “just how it is.” Yet that is the proposition being thrust on us now.Yesterday, 2,746 people died of covid-19 in…

Restoration ecologist Karen Holl has a simple message for anyone who thinks planting 1 trillion trees will reverse the damage of climate change. "We can't plant our way out of climate change," says Holl, professor of environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz and a leading expert in forest restoration. "It…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Could a post-pandemic economic recovery provide countries with the chance to accelerate towards cleaner energy? The former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, has added his voice to calls for industrialised nations to invest in a greener economic recovery from the Covid-19…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The government faces a post-lockdown choice between green growth or propping up polluting industries The UK must avoid lurching from the coronavirus crisis into a deeper climate crisis, the government’s advisers have warned. They recommend that ministers ensure funds earmarked for a post-Covid-19 economic…

More than 3 billion people could potentially end up living in unbearable heat in the next 50 years, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America showed.While the worst-case scenario says 3 billion people may be impacted, the Associated…