Kevin Anderson says we lost the chance to stay below 1.5 degrees and for a 33% chance of staying below 2 degrees, industrialised nations such as the UK, need to fully decarbonise by 2035. As part of the ‘Delivering on 2 degrees’ talks and debate evening organised by the Carbon [...]
As climate change makes farming more difficult, this may be our best bet for food security.
There are many reasons to base the story this time on scientific findings, on climate change and tectonic activity.
The flood has been called the worst US natural disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012, and the "no-name storm" dumped three times as much rain on Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina.
10 Extreme weather Record heat, record drought, record floods, and stormy weather will become more common. The results are broad, affecting food production, the heart of our society, literally all ecosystems, and work or living conditions. 9 Wildfire Are fires affected by climate change? The answer is simple, yes. Of [...]
A new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences, sets out the most recent and comprehensive review to date on this topic and shows a complex story of change in the ocean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxSgItCUGk At the World Conservation Congress in September 2016, [...]
We have the knowledge and hopefully the awareness to develop innovative strategies and safeguards to sustain land carbon storage. […]
Over the past year, the climate risks of methane (CH4) released from natural sources have attracted increasing media attention in scientific and media forums as “the Arctic climate threat that nobody’s even talking about yet.”
To curiosity-driven scientist Dan Lunt, understanding the past climate of our Earth (from the scorching greenhouse of the mid-Cretaceous, to the frozen wastes of the last ice age) is of fundamental interest. […]
