What El Niño means for the world's perilous climate tipping points
Jul 11, 2023 06:45 am UTC| Nature
The UN World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has confirmed it: El Niño conditions have arrived and are expected to become moderate to strong as they develop over the coming year. El Niño is the hot phase of...
Climate change is transforming our oceans. Can fisheries management adapt?
Jul 11, 2023 06:42 am UTC| Nature
Newfoundlands northern cod was once thought to be an inexhaustible resource. In fact, much of the provinces history and culture continues to be linked with this iconic species. But in the 1990s, the northern cod population...
Who decides what ESG is and how to make investments greener - new research
Jul 05, 2023 03:38 am UTC| Investing
More than 30 US states have proposed or implemented legislation in recent years to stop the government and its pension funds from investing in environmental social and governance (ESG) funds. These products integrate ESG...
How heating your home fuels climate change – and why government measures are failing to stop it
Jul 04, 2023 07:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
The UKs housing stock is old, energy inefficient and heavily reliant on fossil fuel heating systems mainly gas boilers. With heating responsible for 17% of the UKs carbon emissions, homes and their central heating must...
Jun 28, 2023 15:35 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Plastic pollution has become such major problem that its threatening our human rights. Thats the view of two UN special rapporteurs (human rights advisers) who recently issued a joint statement, warning against the...
Marshall Islands, a nation at the heart of global shipping, fights for climate justice
Jun 28, 2023 15:34 pm UTC| Insights & Views
I went sailing on a bright yellow outrigger canoe in the Marshall Islands in March. On board were Alson Kelen, founder of Waan Aelõñ in Majel (WAM, Canoes of the Marshall Islands), and a group of youngsters...
The world's fish are shrinking as the climate warms. We're trying to figure out why
Jun 21, 2023 07:25 am UTC| Nature
Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, ranging from tiny gobies and zebrafish to gigantic tunas and whale sharks. They provide vital sustenance to billions of people worldwide via fisheries and aquaculture, and...
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects