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A philosopher and mother argues parents must attempt to tackle the problems caused by climate change – for their kids. Not doing so is like ‘reading them a bedtime story while the house burns down’.
Spring 2022’s record heat put most Indians at greater risk of a premature death.
As early as 1885, Richard Schomburgk told Nature about the drought affecting the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
Older imported cars pose risks to motorists and spew pollution. Some countries, including Ghana, are taking steps to limit the harms of this piece of the vehicle life cycle.
Nationally, 57% of the population says they’re not prepared for a flood disaster. Surveys and disasters show that those most at risk are least prepared.
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode five, we discuss how climate change is affecting vulnerable species.
Modernizing Canada’s fiscal arrangements is necessary to overcome considerable challenges that are impacting the country’s finances, including an aging population and climate change.
The government is considering blending hydrogen into the UK gas network.
In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
Afghanistan and Central America have growing populations, limited resources, and the potential for more extreme heatwaves.
The oceans are getting hotter, with a likely El Niño and climate change responsible.
Both at home and in schools, food can become a powerful tool to empower young people to take climate action, which can lead to reduced climate anxiety and increased feelings of hope for the future.
Striking pushes against the core capitalist dynamics also responsible for global warming.
Climate change is a real threat to national security. So why didn’t our armed forces review properly come to grips with this?
Labor has signalled Australia is back on climate change. If so, why aren’t we telling the world?
Research on societal change should feature more strongly in the IPCC’s climate assessments. Because without a significant shift in behaviour, the emissions curve will not bend downwards.
Despite the popular and intuitive notion that people find climate change psychologically distant, a new review of the evidence shows that’s not the case at all.
Extreme weather is a threat to the UK’s electricity system – and climate change is likely to make it even worse.
Leatherback turtles are predicted to lose half of their nesting habitat, on one beach studied.
Autumn extreme fire weather around Cape Town in South Africa has become 90% more likely in a warmer world.
Rising temperatures mean longer, earlier pollen seasons, but a bigger problem is what more carbon dioxide will do to the amount of pollen being released.
Victoria is planning to engineer wetlands so more water can go to agriculture. It’s not a good plan.
Fear and Wonder is a new climate podcast, brought to you by The Conversation, and sponsored by the Climate Council. In episode four, we discuss how climate change is affecting the water cycle.
The criticisms faced by ESG projects are indicative of the growing polarization in the future profitability of the fossil fuel sector.