The ethical city: an idea whose time has come
Jan 27, 2016 02:50 am UTC| Insights & Views
Globally, there is intense discussion about the future of urban life through the World Urban Campaign. The central proposition is that: … the battle for a more sustainable future will be won or lost in...
We just had the hottest year on record – where does that leave climate denial?
Jan 25, 2016 10:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
At a news conference announcing that 2015 broke all previous heat records by a wide margin, one journalist started a question with If this trend continues… The response by the Director of NASAs Goddard Institute for...
Building climate resilience in cities: lessons from New York
Jan 23, 2016 09:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
We live in an urbanizing world. Up to two-thirds of the worlds population some six billion people may live in cities by 2050. Cities have emerged as first responders to climate change because they experience the...
Weird weather? Blame the North Atlantic
Jan 23, 2016 08:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
Whether dubbed climate extremes or global weirding, we have been witnessing some surprising and concerning weather events. In Europe, seasons seem to be changing, but not consistently. Since the turn of the millennium, the...
How Davos power brokers can start tackling major environmental risks
Jan 21, 2016 06:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The World Economic Forum (WEF) published its annual Global Risks Report in the run up to its annual meeting in Davos. Food and water crises, energy price shocks, biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse, extreme weather...
It's official: 2015 was the hottest year ever recorded
Jan 21, 2016 01:53 am UTC| Research & Analysis Nature
Its official: 2015 was the hottest year on record. The US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed overnight that 2015 saw the global average temperature climbing to 0.90C above the 20th-century...
The hottest year on record signals that global warming is alive and well
Jan 21, 2016 01:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The year 2015 has proven to be another year of temperature records. Data released by NASA and NOAA (National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration) show that in 2015, the Global Mean Surface Temperature the yardstick...
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