Brendan Beirne
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.
People who work outdoors are at particular risk during heat waves.
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Tackling poverty can protect people from rising heat extremes in Britain and abroad.
Most mayors and managers of African cities know too well that climate change is real.
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African cities contribute the least to but bear the highest impact of climate change in terms of frequency and severity of weather events.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the 2022 COP27 meeting in Egypt.
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The kind of coverage favoured by South African media probably doesn’t do much to improve the public’s understanding of climate change.
British Columbia, Canada.
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Canada has had over 2,000 wildfires already this year – here’s why.
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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.
Potentially dangerous air turbulence has increased on busy flight routes across the globe.
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Turbulence strong enough to pose an injury risk could be set to double or triple in frequency in the future.
People wore face masks as wildfire smoke from Canada turned New York City’s sky orange on June 7, 2023.
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So much pollution goes into the air today that even without wildfire smoke, 99% of the global population breathes unhealthy air.
Retailers’ costs for managing returns are rising.
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Returns are becoming a costly sustainability problem for retailers and the planet. A supply chain expert explains.
Warmer temperatures could lengthen the growing season of trees and consequently increase their growth rate.
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A longer growing season for trees, due to global warming, does not necessarily lead to an increase in wood production.
Warming of more than 1°C risks unsafe and harmful outcomes for humanity.
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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.
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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.
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Teaching climate change in schools raises basic and potentially divisive questions about the purpose of education and the nature of childhood.
The Sudbury 17 wildfire burns east of Mississagi Provincial Park near Elliot Lake, Ont., in this June 4, 2023 handout photo.
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Creating a federal agency — let’s call it the Emergency Management Agency of Canada or EMAC — would support comprehensive emergency management as Canada faces more and more natural disasters.
The Weddell Sea helps power the great ocean conveyor, which moves heat, carbon dioxide and nutrients around Earth’s ocean basins.
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Freshening seawater around Antarctica is disrupting a global ocean conveyor which regulates the climate.
A glimpse of a post-apocalyptic world.
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Maybe it was a nuclear war, devastating climate change, or a killer virus. But if something caused people to disappear, imagine what would happen afterward.
Trucks, with goods, abandoned on Nigeria’s East-West highway cut off by flood in October 2022.
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Nigeria’s new President Bola Ahmed Tinubu faces a number of challenges. But climate change cannot be ignored.
Smoke from wildfires hangs over Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 6.
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Answers to some of the most common questions about wildfire smoke, health risks and the air quality situation affecting most of North America.
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The likely El Niño is bad timing for the electricity sector, and means Australians may face supply disruptions and volatile prices.
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Heatwaves are often the result of these bursts of warm, southerly air.