July 6, 2019The prospect of more atomic energy for Brazil, envisaged under President Bolsonaro’s nuclear plan, fails to impress many of his compatriots.
July 4, 2019Many schools now routinely include climate teaching. A British teacher says her profession should tell the full story as directly as it can.
July 3, 2019From farm to fork, agriculture fuels global heating. Can the world eat well, but stay a little cooler? That will need radical food changes.
June 28, 2019You need powerful microscopes to see microbes. Few microbiologists claim to know much about most of them. But they are vital in the climate crisis
June 25, 2019Look far enough ahead and in a millennium an ice-free Greenland is a possibility, scientists say. Sea levels too will be a lot higher by then.
June 21, 2019The US military is now the 47th greenhouse gas emitter. A machine powered to keep the world safer paradoxically increases the levels of climate danger.
June 20, 2019The pace of glacier thawing on the roof of the world has doubled in 40 years, scientists say, with the Himalayan melt rate affected by climate heating.
June 19, 2019Here is the long-term forecast. Rain will become more torrential, flash floods more frequent. Very heavy rain is a simple response to global temperatures.
June 18, 2019Even in rich, air-conditioned America, people die in extreme heat. The US heat peril means more will die. Political decisions will decide how many more.
June 13, 2019On paper, nations are protecting their wilderness areas. In practice, most protected areas lack effective policing. Nature is not safe, even in reserves.
