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Alberta’s experiment with voluntary ‘switching off’ was a success both in terms of saving electricity and in showcasing the power of proactive informed action to address the climate crisis.
We’re getting faster at building renewables – but we’ll have to speed up even more to reach our 2030 target of 82% clean energy
Some study the crisis, but all are worried – and frustrated.
These giant rivers in the sky are both destructive and essential for the Western U.S. water supply.
Australians want government to act on climate change, but not necessarily now, or in their neighbourhood. How can governments resolve this dilemma?
Whether artificial intelligence leads to more or less energy use will depend on how we adapt to using it.
In the Mediterranean, heat waves are decimating underwater forests that are essential to ecosystems. The gorgonians seem to be better able to resist in the depths, but this refuge may only be temporary.
As the climate changes and weather warms, the freezing line is shifting, bringing rain to many regions more accustomed to snow.
Land subsidence is a factor as preparations are made for rising sea levels and strengthening storms. Human infrastructure, including buildings and groundwater extraction, increases vulnerabilities.
How’s the humidity? Australia’s east coast has been hit by intense humidity this summer. Here’s why – and why it’s a risk
The Doomsday Clock is not a precise risk assessment, it’s a flawed but powerful metaphor for the catastrophic risk humanity faces
The climate migration deal has been dubbed as offering Tuvaluans a lifeline, but others say it is a neocolonial arrangement that does not tackle rising ocean levels.
Beyond the international negotiations, COP serves as a critical venue for global civil societies to exchange knowledge, organize and build a better world.
As the sea rises and storms get stronger, movable flood barriers are going to be used more often.
Climate change could reduce suitable nesting sites for the wandering albatross on Marion Island.
Without urgent action, Earth is heading for climate catastrophe. Yet there are reasons for hope in 2024 – including a possible peak in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Floodwaters pulsing into the sea normally clear within six days. But the 2022 floods in eastern Australia were different.
Nearly a third of all moorland burning in Scotland occurs on peat soil – a vital carbon sink.
Modellers of the energy transition have tended to neglect fractious international relations in their calculations.
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