Winter is supposed to be the best season for wind power – the winds are stronger, and since air density increases as the temperature drops, more force is pushing on the blades. But winter also comes…
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Despair is humanity’s worst enemy, I believe, so we—the whole Small Planet team—have created an easy-to-digest tour of inspiring ways US cities, states, and farms…
Claim: Once global warming reaches 2°C (which we’ve nearly reached already, but scientists are downplaying it), positive feedback loops and tipping points will trigger rapid runaway warming and…
Despite living in dynamic environments and facing an uncertain future due to climate change, New Zealanders generally expect their land and property rights will endure indefinitely.
Keeping global temperatures to 1.5C could stem deadly increases in heat and humidity, study says.
Meeting the world’s climate goals could prevent millions living in the tropics from facing episodes…
The fossil fuel industry is using the same playbook to fight city climate plans around the country.
When the city of Austin drafted a plan to shift away from fossil fuels, the local gas company was…
The first UN climate change conference was held in 1995 in Berlin.
More than two decades later, our planet remains on track for three degrees of warming above pre-industrial levels by the end of the…
Food discarded in homes is 74kg per person each year, with problem affecting rich and poor countries.
People waste almost a billion tonnes of food a year, a UN report has revealed. It is the most…
Some scientists fear that meltwater from Greenland may be affecting ocean currents that help regulate far-reaching weather patterns.
A northern branch of the Gulf Stream — the vast ocean current…
The cats and dogs lie as if asleep, in individual graves. Many wore collars or other adornments, and they had been cared for through injury and old age, like today’s pets. But the last person to bury…
Several times in recent years, migrants trying to cross between Djibouti and Yemen have been thrown into the sea.
Smugglers threw 80 migrants into the sea between the Horn of Africa and the…
Pundits and politicians have been quick to point fingers over the debacle in Texas that left millions without power or clean water during February’s deep freeze. Many have blamed the state’s …
From Greta Thunberg to Sir David Attenborough, the headline-grabbing climate change activists and environmentalists of today are predominantly white. But like many areas of society, those whose…
The Independent speaks to Prof Hayhoe as she is appointed chief scientist of the Nature Conservancy, one of the world’s largest environmental organisations.
More effort must be made to represent…
The exclusion of women is a global emergency, but pandemic recovery offers a chance to chart a new and equal path.
As the world marks International Women’s Day tomorrow in the midst of a global…
Announcing Climate Risk Labs: A global community of experts advancing ground-breaking research and radical strategies for climate risk management.
Riskthinking.AI has launched ClimateRiskLabs.org, a…
The European Central Bank is strongly considering disclosing climate risks in its bond programs and will now focus on collecting the data that will help achieve that, according to officials familiar…
Sprites and jets are fleeting atmospheric phenomena, hard enough to witness, let alone photograph.
But a new image from an observatory in Hawaii captures both a red sprite and a blue jet in the…
To save the planet, we must save the Amazon rainforest. To save the rainforest, we must save its indigenous peoples. And to do that, we must demarcate their land.
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