While the Paris climate talks focus on technical fixes, no one talks about how we’re much more afraid of roughing it than ever before.
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The country must protect its huge forests from fires and logging.
The mechanisms are there - but where’s the evidence?
Cumbria 2015 shows how we have failed to learn from two other ‘one in 100-year events’ in the past 15 years.
Human-wildlife conflict will continue without better management and revenue sharing.
The North Face pioneer wanted to protect the wilderness – so he bought it.
The media prefers positive stories to the traditional doom and gloom of climate coverage.
Poor planning can make natural disasters much, much worse.
1.5 or 2 degrees? What matters is how we get there.
Things can change disturbingly quickly – just ask the people who once farmed the Sahara.
Studying diverse languages gives us invaluable insights into human cognition but more become endangered every month.
There’s a huge gap between what India claims it can do, and what it’s actually doing to bring down emissions.
How to hit rogue countries where it really hurts – in the wallet.
The solutions presented by GM crops are rarely tested against the other options. Take a look at our philosophy of farming and it all starts to make sense.
A key sticking point may be resolved at the Paris climate talks: but at what cost to developing countries?
Our gut reactions to controversial issues like hydraulic fracturing can be powerful, but information can still change our minds.
Humans used to keep up by simply burning more fuel or farming more land.
Instead of trying to maintain our usual routines in the face of huge disruptions, we should use them as a welcome opportunity to mix things up.
There are solar-power sea slugs, so why haven’t humans mastered the art of photosynthesis?
Since scientists are the real sceptics, they still argue a lot among themselves.
UN special envoy and former Irish president Mary Robinson talks to leading experts about the 2015 Paris climate negotiations.
Strength in numbers matters in the world of solar energy.
It’s difficult to individually track tiny insects but researchers think they’ve found a way to harness a bee’s own energy.
The land of Ikea and apple charlotte is hoping to sell its vision of sustainability at COP21. There are a couple of meatballs in the ointment, though.
NASA once had 400,000 people working on space exploration. We should battle climate change in the same way.