Climate Change

Felicity Bradstock Felicity Bradstock is a freelance writer specialising in Energy and Finance. She has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Birmingham, UK. More Info Premium Content By Felicity Bradstock - Jul 06, 2025, 2:00 PM CDT U.S. insurers are rapidly pulling coverage from homes in high-risk…

Egypt is stepping up efforts to safeguard its Mediterranean coastline—particularly in the historic city of Alexandria—in response to the growing threat of climate change, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hani Sewilam announced on Sunday. During a meeting to assess ongoing projects, Sewilam underscored the urgent need for clear policies…

SINGAPORE - The Trump administration has made moves in recent weeks to shutter two US government websites housing global resources on climate science. Climate.gov, a website which supported public education in climate science, was the first to be taken down on June 24. This came a month after its entire…

Latin America’s top court of human rights has decided for the first time that people have the right to a “healthy climate” without “dangerous” human interference, and has urged states to regulate fossil fuel extraction and exploration, in a landmark climate decision. Culminating a two-year process that involved more than…

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Breakthrough CO₂ conversion technology achieves record-setting efficiency in producing high-value chemical fuels. As climate change continues to escalate and carbon emissions hit record highs, the urgency to find effective ways to recycle carbon dioxide (CO2) has never been greater. With the global movement toward carbon neutrality gaining momentum...Read More

Ecologists are concerned that forest ecosystems will not keep pace with a rapidly changing climate, failing to remain healthy and productive. Before the rapid climate change of the past century, tree populations in the Northern Hemisphere adapted to colder and warmer periods over thousands of years. During onsets of Ice…

Think of Earth’s water cycle as a well-choreographed dance, and climate change has started remixing the music. Some places are now drenched with extreme rain and flooding, while others are drying up under record-breaking droughts. Between 2015 and 2020, Cape Town, South Africa, faced a severe drought so extreme that…

The Trump administration on Monday shut down a federal website that had presented congressionally mandated reports and research on climate change, drawing rebukes from scientists who said it will hinder the nation’s efforts to prepare for worsening droughts, floods and heat waves. The U.S. Global Change Research Program’s website, globalchange.gov,…

Sustainability expert and professor Mike Berners-Lee argues that dishonesty in politics, business, and the media is one of the biggest barriers to tackling global crises like climate change, social inequality, and environmental destruction. In this episode of Ways to Change the World, he talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about the need…