A new lawsuit against the CBA puts climate change in a new legal light: a financial hazard. The case opens up fresh lines of attack on institutions that contribute to climate change.
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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
Heavy rains, poor and clogged drainage systems have made many towns and cities in Nigeria susceptible to massive flooding.
Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth woke up the world to climate change. But with its sequel hitting cinemas now, it’s not clear that ‘big issue’ documentaries make a difference in the long term.
While climate denialism impedes policymaking in both the US and Australia, there are key differences in their political and public cultures.
Why assembling two teams to debate climate change is all about political spectacle and sowing doubt – and has nothing to do with actual climate science.
People universally believe scientists’ solar eclipse calendars, but vaccine warnings or climate predictions are forms of science that strangely do not enjoy equivalent acceptance.
Climate scientist Mark Maslin interviewed the former US vice-president about his new film, An Inconvenient Sequel.
Science provides a useful way to explore and understand the natural world. But it also has a richness, diversity and creativity that is often overlooked.
When utilities plan investments, they think decades ahead. A recent study shows why power companies should be spending more on renewables despite the Trump administration’s tilt toward fossil fuels.
An experiment in getting people to care about climate change uses slick videos, charismatic scientists and calls to action.
Climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense around the world. Cities are hotter than surrounding areas, so urban dwellers – especially minorities and the poor – are at greatest risk.
A new framework has been developed to identify wildlife populations under threat.
Trump administration officials argue that states can regulate more effectively than the federal government. But without leadership from the top, federalism may allow red states to avoid acting.
Major airports around the world will see more frequent flight restrictions in the coming decades because of increasingly common hot temperatures.
Beeches are ‘non-native’ to Scotland because they got there less than 7,000 years ago. No, really.
The American Society of Civil Engineers gives US infrastructure a D+. What is it that we’re doing wrong?
Conflict and poverty further deepen the impacts of climate change, resulting widening income inequality between women and men.
The globe is greening as plants grow faster in response to rising carbon dioxide. But a new analysis shows they aren’t using more water to do it - a rare piece of good news for our changing planet.
Too much emphasis on environmental stress overlooks the role of politics and economics.
Due to rising sea levels, low-lying island nations are in immediate danger. If drastic measures are taken, this disastrous trend can be transformed into an opportunity for sustainable development.
Canadians love to paddle on them and camp beside them, but our boreal lakes offer more than just peace and beauty. They could provide clues to how life on Earth began.
Wildfires amid climate change may spark a radical shift in forest habitats and wildlife. They aren’t just a destructive force of man and nature. They’re a key factor in forest ecosystem renewal.
New research calculates the huge cost of ‘negative emissions’ technologies that will be required to avoid dangerous climate change.
To create property systems that are as dynamic as the landscapes we occupy, we might need to start thinking about ourselves as belonging to and answerable to the land, not the other way around.
Once investors put their shoulders to the wheel, everything changes.