Douglas Tompkins: can billionaires really save nature with cold, hard cash?
Dec 10, 2015 11:53 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Nature
Douglas Tompkins, the pioneering entrepreneur who created the outdoor company The North Face and fashion chain Esprit, and who spent his riches creating the worlds largest network of privately owned nature reserves, died...
What are climate change 'tipping points' –and should we be afraid?
Dec 09, 2015 14:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As recently as 6,000 years ago the Sahara was green and fertile. Weve found evidence of large rivers crossing the region, lined by flourishing settlements. Then suddenly things changed. Trees died and the land dried up....
Why India’s plan to fight climate change doesn't hold water
Dec 09, 2015 09:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
As the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally, the pressure is on India to offer something meaningful at the Paris climate talks. Yet the country demands the right to develop and lift its population out of...
Dec 08, 2015 20:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
More than 40,000 people were forced to leave their homes after Storm Desmond caused devastating floods and wreaked havoc in north-west England. Initial indications were that the storm may have caused the heaviest local...
Meet the fossil fuel firms sponsoring the world's biggest climate conference
Dec 08, 2015 08:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
In their recent book Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg argue that the reputation risk that flows from an association with (greenhouse...
Removing CO2 from the atmosphere won't save us: we have to cut emissions now
Dec 08, 2015 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Over 190 countries are negotiating in Paris a global agreement to stabilise climate change at less than 2℃ above pre-industrial global average temperatures. For a reasonable chance of keeping warming under 2℃ we can...
Beijing Smog Problem Worsens Amid Climate Change Summit
Dec 02, 2015 12:26 pm UTC| Life Nature
On Monday, Chinese netizens saw the streets of Beijing blanketed in the thickest, hazardous smoke the country has seen. Reuters said Beijing maintained the second-highest orange level alert on Monday, forcing major...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects