A new report has found that Africa’s air pollution is already causing more premature deaths than unsafe water or childhood malnutrition.
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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
Climate science is now a key part of the agency’s mission.
Australia’s city foodbowls are an important part of the nation’s food supply, but they’re under increasing pressure from growing populations.
Phasing out greenhouse gas emissions entirely by mid-century is possible, and promising trends are emerging. But the next five to ten years will be the real test of whether we can make that happen.
By the time we hit that temperature, further climate changes will already be locked in and unavoidable.
Some areas expecting big environmental changes already have large, vulnerable populations.
Without understanding why the ‘fingerprint’ has failed to appear our predictions about global warming - as carbon dioxide concentrations increase - are uncertain.
The president-elect threatens to extinguish any hope of keeping warming below 2°C.
Cape Grim’s air pollution station has recorded some of the biggest changes to the world’s atmosphere over the past 40 years.
Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
The final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century to avoid it becoming the hottest year.
Can concern for the environment survive in the age of Trump and Brexit?
Managers from carbon intensive companies are holding off on long term emissions strategies because of uncertainty around regulations and policies, new research finds.
For three years, carbon emissions from fossil fuels have grown little or not at all, opening a window of opportunity to halt climate change.
Memo To Marrakech: If the U.S. drops the mantle of global leadership on climate, here are the rest of the world’s options on how to react.
Study shows the footprint of climate change is already vast and that species are trying to adapt to rising temperatures.
The halls of the Marrakech climate summit have been filled with fearful talk about Donald Trump’s presidency. But there is hope that the Paris climate treaty can weather the political storm.
Climate change will certainly affect Bangladesh but claims of climate change refugees are premature.
November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2°C slipped out of reach.
Americans have elected an anti-sustainability President. Here’s how it has gone down at COP22.
The Paris Agreement is in place, but there’s still much to lose for the least developed countries.
Many models used by policy-makers suggest we’ll have to remove CO2 from the atmosphere - but if we can’t, we have to get much more serious about cutting emissions.
A key strategy for President-elect Trump is to turn the US inward, both economically and politically. This bodes badly for Africa.
Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
The differences between the two candidates on key policies are stark, and the result will have major implications around the world.