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Climate change – Analysis and Comment
Cities are where solutions are found – but also where perils are amplified when we fail to act.
This week’s summit for a “New Global Financing Pact” will look to secure some much-needed climate cash for developing countries, while ensuring their debt remains manageable.
Keir Starmer pledges to end new UK oil and gas exploration – an expert’s take on why this is the right move.
Drought in Europe, dwindling Arctic sea ice, a slow start to the Indian monsoon – unusually hot ocean temperatures can disrupt climate patterns around the world, as an ocean scientist explains.
Canadian courts are increasingly holding governments accountable for violating their citizens’ human rights by not doing enough on climate change.
Over the past three years, Earth’s climate system has accumulated an average of 11 Hiroshima bombs’ worth of excess energy per second. And it’s showing in the current surge in ocean temperature.
Currents can carry that deep ocean heat hundreds of miles to surface again at distant shores.
Seagrasses need light to remain resilient to marine heatwaves – water pollution disrupts that balance.
A thin layer of surface water has been baked by the sun.
A new report lays out steps communities can take to help their residents survive heat waves as the risk of dangerous temperatures rises.
As the world gets hotter, fish are getting smaller. The future of aquatic ecosystems – and fisheries – could depend on understanding how and why it’s happening.
When the roads flooded around Lismore, it left supermarket shelves empty for months. Keeping everyone fed took a huge community effort. Now we need to make food supply secure.
Tackling poverty can protect people from rising heat extremes in Britain and abroad.
African cities contribute the least to but bear the highest impact of climate change in terms of frequency and severity of weather events.
The kind of coverage favoured by South African media probably doesn’t do much to improve the public’s understanding of climate change.
Canada has had over 2,000 wildfires already this year – here’s why.
When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Turbulence strong enough to pose an injury risk could be set to double or triple in frequency in the future.
So much pollution goes into the air today that even without wildfire smoke, 99% of the global population breathes unhealthy air.
Returns are becoming a costly sustainability problem for retailers and the planet. A supply chain expert explains.
A longer growing season for trees, due to global warming, does not necessarily lead to an increase in wood production.
Temperature rise of more than 1°C pushes us towards irreversible climate tipping points, yet Earth is 1.2°C warmer than in pre-industrial times.
New research has unravelled the mystery of why sea sponges die when the water gets too warm. The cause of death appears to be the sudden loss of microbes that usually act to detoxify sponge tissue.
Teaching climate change in schools raises basic and potentially divisive questions about the purpose of education and the nature of childhood.