Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint
Apr 11, 2017 07:01 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Do you wear runners, drink coffee or own a mobile phone? The chances are that these products cruised to you on a ship. In 2015, the global merchant fleet carried a record 10 billion tonnes of cargo, a 2.1% increase from...
Curbing climate change has a dollar value — here's how and why we measure it
Mar 13, 2017 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse Obama-era rules to cut carbon pollution, including a moratorium on leasing public lands for coal mining and a plan to reduce carbon emissions from...
How Europe's coastal cities can cope with rising sea levels
Mar 06, 2017 13:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The average global sea level has risen by more than 20cm since 1980 thats a rate of 0.5mm per month according to new research from the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BCCC). These are frightening statistics for Europes...
How to talk climate change across the aisle: Focus on adaptive solutions rather than causes
Mar 02, 2017 03:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Conversations about climate change often derail into arguments about whether global warming exists, whether climate change is already happening, the extent to which human activity is a cause and which beliefs are based in...
US City Hits 100F In The Dead Of Winter Following Disturbing Global Trends
Feb 22, 2017 09:18 am UTC| Nature
February and winter usually go hand in hand, which means that northern areas are supposed to be cold during this time. Thats how the world usually works. In Magnum, Oklahoma for example, temperatures should be in the low...
Are fossil fuel companies telling investors enough about the risks of climate change?
Feb 16, 2017 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Prior to President Donald Trump taking office, there was a push to require oil and gas companies to inform their investors about the risks of climate change. As governments step up efforts to regulate carbon emissions, the...
How the warming world could turn many plants and animals into climate refugees
Feb 15, 2017 06:18 am UTC| Nature
Finding the optimum environment and avoiding uninhabitable conditions has been a challenge faced by species throughout the history of life on Earth. But as the climate changes, many plants and animals are likely to find...
‘We have thousands of Modis’: the secret behind the BJP’s enduring success in India