Carbon Dioxide Emissions: U.S. vs. China and India in climate debate part 3
Jun 29, 2017 12:33 pm UTC| Commentary
On 1st June of 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced United States withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord (PCA) portraying the deal to be an unfair one American people and American workers. There has been a furor...
Volcanoes under the ice: melting Antarctic ice could fight climate change
Jun 16, 2017 05:05 am UTC| Nature
Iron is not commonly famous for its role as a micronutrient for tiny organisms dwelling in the cold waters of polar oceans. But iron feeds plankton, which in turn hold carbon dioxide in their bodies. When they die, the...
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...
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