'Why have carbon dioxide levels risen and fallen in the past?'
Dear readers,
This is not the column I planned to publish this month. I wrote another one several weeks ago in answer to a reader’s…
At GreenBiz, we’ve been reporting on the world of sustainable business for over two decades, but this year has been unlike any other. From an unprecedented pandemic to a global economic downturn to…
The past few months have shown that individuals have an absolutely gobsmackingly critical role to play in confronting a global crisis.
Hi Sara,
I was born in 1988, which apparently makes me an…
The 60-year-old congresswoman will be the first Native American cabinet secretary next month when she takes over at interior.
Debra Haaland is making American history.
The 60-year-old congresswoman…
There is no way to mine fossil fuels without driving the planet past 1.5C of warming and putting Indigenous communities at risk.
As we prepare to turn the page on 2020, and inaugurate Joe Biden as…
Bright yellow stickers warn drivers burning of gasoline has ‘major consequences on human health and the environment’
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of…
From record-breaking wildfires to devastating hurricanes, human-driven climate change keeps killing us.
The climate is changing, its effects are deadly, and it’s getting worse every year.
From Australian bushfires to Atlantic hurricanes, insurance damages were the highest annual total ever, says Christian Aid study.
The world’s 10 costliest weather disasters of 2020 saw insured…
Extreme weather claimed thousands of lives and caused losses worth tens of billions of dollars worldwide this year, says Christian Aid
BARCELONA - Disasters fuelled by weather and climate extremes…
The impact of Regional and Global Climate Change on Vulnerable and Low Income Population
Afroditi Synnefa,
Shamila Haddad,
Priya Rajagopalan and
Matthaios Santamouris
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Species that grow faster could be better at pulling carbon from the atmosphere, but could also come with risks
Armand Séguin planted his first genetically modified tree — a poplar — more than 20…
Conservationists have captured video footage of an extremely adorable turtle "tsunami."
Sound impossible? What the videographers are calling a "tsunami" is actually comprised of an endangered…
In a virtual meeting, representatives of the Global Environment Facility’s 184 member countries moved this week to financially support countries seeking to protect nature and tackle environmental…
Veles is a spray cleanser made from organic waste—the first in what founder Amanda Weeks hopes will be a whole trash-based product line.
There’s a pervasive bit of mythology about food waste that it…
President-elect Joe Biden introduced on Saturday key members of the team he is assembling to fulfill his pledge to combat climate change, calling them brilliant and qualified.
Climate change is “the…
In 2020, we experienced a year like no other with a pandemic that has already claimed more than a million lives. The associated economic calamity is projected to make the world economy 4.4 per cent…