Did people or climate kill off the megafauna? Actually, it was both
Dec 04, 2019 12:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Earth is now firmly in the grips of its sixth mass extinction event, and its mainly our fault. But the modern era is definitely not the first time humans have been implicated in the extinction of a wide range of...
Climate crisis: the countryside could be our greatest ally – if we can reform farming
Nov 05, 2019 02:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Around 20% of the UKs farms account for 80% of the countrys total food production, and they do this on about half of all the farmed land there is. At least 80% of farms in the UK dont produce very much at all. In...
Developing countries can prosper without increasing emissions
Sep 22, 2017 03:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
One of the ironies of fighting climate change is that developed countries which have benefited from decades or centuries of industrialisation are now asking developing countries to abandon highly polluting...
Costly signals needed to deliver inconvenient truth
Aug 16, 2017 12:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
A little over half the worlds population sees climate change as a serious problem (54% according to a 40-nation Pew Research survey). Coincidentally, roughly the same number identify as Christian or Muslim (55%). On the...
Climate Change Killing Hundreds Of Thousands In Europe
Aug 08, 2017 15:48 pm UTC| Technology
The vast majority of scientists all over the world have already settled on the existence of climate change and the huge role that humanity has played in speeding it up. Now, new data is coming in that indicates how many...
Inaction on climate change risks leaving future generations $530 trillion in debt
Jul 19, 2017 11:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
By continuing to delay significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we risk handing young people alive today a bill of up to US$535 trillion. This would be the cost of the negative emissions technologies required to...
Rising sea temperatures will hit fisheries and communities in poor countries the hardest
Jul 12, 2017 19:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Despite having some of the worlds smallest carbon footprints, small island developing states and the worlds least-developed countries will be among the places most vulnerable to climate changes impacts on marine life, new...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight