Over 50 U.S. Mayors Ignore President Trump’s Decision, Proceeds With Paris Climate Accord

Dec 14, 2017 11:48 am UTC| Science Nature

In continued defiance against the Trump administrations mandate to keep supporting the fossil fuel industry and renege on the voluntary commitments made by the U.S. upon signing the Paris Climate Accord, a coalition of...

California fire damage to homes is less 'random' than it seems

Dec 08, 2017 03:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

In the midst of the many wildfire emergencies that have faced California this year, it can often seem that the way houses burn, or dont, is random. The thing is, though, its not. Firefighters and researchers alike have...

Will Puerto Ricans return home after Hurricane María?

Nov 18, 2017 14:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Even before this years devastating hurricane season, the team of demographers I work with at Penn State and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics had predicted that the population of Puerto Rico would decline over the...

Green finance? Why global banks are pledging billions to fight climate change

Nov 11, 2017 01:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Banking giant HSBC has pledged US$100 billion (76 billion) to fight climate change, to be spent on sustainable finance and investment over the next eight years. It also commits to increasing its own use of renewable energy...

Why people stay in disaster-prone cities

Oct 08, 2017 02:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

The 2017 hurricane season has brought unprecedented destruction to the Caribbean and southern United States. As millions of people around the world have watched these events unfold from afar, no doubt some have found...

The immense challenge of desertification in sub-Saharan Africa

Oct 05, 2017 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Today, dry areas represent more than 41% of land on the globe and they are home to more than two billion people. They are the stage for the ongoing process of land degradation that is aggravated by climate fluctuations ...

Fine-particulate pollution: can we trust microsensor readings?

Sep 27, 2017 16:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Last May, Paris City Hall launched Pollutrack, a fleet of micro-sensors placed on the roofs of vehicles traveling throughout the capital to measure the level of fine particles present in the air in real time. A year early,...