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Our food, finance, and logistics systems are worringly vulnerable to climate shocks – we can’t rule out collapses within a decade.
Alerting people to the threat of surface water flooding is still in its infancy, but a new review reveals a combination of prediction modelling and weather watching aims to help affected communities.
“It is worse, much worse, than you think.”
Countries still figure out their emissions by adding up all the sources, rather than measuring what’s actually in the air.
Promising to plant 100m trees a year is one thing; making them grow can be quite another.
The most thoughtful gifts can also be the most sustainable, and last long after Christmas has ended.
Here’s a rare chance to lever serious resources to transform society.
To get ‘system change not climate change’, we need to start making specific demands. Here’s where to start.
Climate change will affect everyone, but women will overwhelmingly bear the greatest burden.
Our power plants may be dirty now. But unlike combustion vehicles, electric cars give us the chance to finally free ourselves from high-carbon travel.
Effective engineering solutions to tackle climate change already exist but there is a desperate lack of conviction to address the emergency.
While celebrating the millions on streets in London and Vancouver, we must not forget the sacrifices of people in the Global South.
‘Black carbon’ from rainforest fires is settling on glaciers and making them melt faster, according to new research.
Long term climate targets are meaningless without concrete action. Here’s what the plans of the UK’s two biggest parties mean for the planet.
How to identify and understand different types of denial: scientific, economic, humanitarian, political and crisis.
The presence of an active and dynamic Green Party would be vital in helping to keep Labour on track.
Beware those who say it is a solved problem.
Divestment doesn’t affect global demand for oil, it just transfers power to state-run oil companies – which have higher carbon footprints. But there are other things we can do.
Big development projects can mean the loss of a community’s identity and connection to their past.
Biodiversity, public transport and home insulation loom large in Labour’s flagship programme for green governance.
More than 300,000 homes have been built in areas of high flood risk since 1989.
Instead of boycotting palm oil, source it from pastureland and not recently logged forests.
In the rush to become ‘open defecation free’, cities are taking quick fixes that are making matters worse.
Lakes are the final resting place for many of the Earth’s plants – and these organic graveyards are about to get a whole lot busier.