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August 13, 2021
The past has an uncomfortable lesson for a warming world: climate heating begets even more of the same.
August 12, 2021
Maybe ancient sea level rises were not so dramatic. But they’d still have been pretty frightening.
August 11, 2021
Once vital barriers to climate change, Amazonia’s forests now show how that and other human action can harm the rainforest.
August 10, 2021
Governments and companies are happy to make net zero carbon pledges. Their real cost could be ruinous for the poor.
August 9, 2021
Could an ocean circulation system − the Gulf Stream, say − sort of shut down? And what would that do to the world’s climate?
August 6, 2021
Three months before hosting the UN conference, COP-26, the UK says a failure to act on the climate treaty can be justified.
August 5, 2021
A warmer world will be a wetter one. Ever more people will face a higher flood risk as rivers rise and city streets fill up.
August 4, 2021
Climate physicians who have re-checked global heating say the Earth's condition is critical, worsening as human demands soar.
July 14, 2021
In a greenhouse world, humans' size could shrink. And there is a hint of hazard to thinking capacity as well.
July 13, 2021
Lobbyists are trying to downplay livestock’s harmful climate impact, which adds large amounts of methane to the atmosphere.
July 12, 2021
Can the world’s largest floating offshore wind farms help the North Sea oil industry to cut carbon emissions? Should they?
July 9, 2021
Five million people die annually of ever more extreme temperatures. And this is happening now on five continents.
July 8, 2021
The waste plastic deluge fouling the world’s beaches could be more than just an eyesore. It could be a toxic timebomb.
July 7, 2021
More carbon dioxide could parch the rainforest as effectively as the woodman’s axe or farmer’s torch. Both are on the cards.
July 6, 2021
Every year an ice floe as big as Austria simply vanishes. That’s climate change, as the Arctic’s coldest sea ice risks melting.
July 5, 2021
Climate change means melting tropical glaciers are losing frozen landscapes of great beauty − and high value to millions.
July 2, 2021
The tough climate of the North Atlantic is an ideal proving ground for Orkney’s renewable energy boom.
July 1, 2021
To cut poverty and energy use would cool the planet, build a more just society − but end dreams of economic growth.
June 30, 2021
Campaign groups urging the United Nations to adopt a global fracking ban say they have won the backing of Ireland.
June 29, 2021
Humans have begun to alter Earth’s water cycle. and not in a good way: expect later monsoon rains and thirstier farmlands.
