More than half of common plant species and a third of animals could see a serious decline in their habitat range. A new study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that if nothing is d... Read more
MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning. Climate scientists cannot attribute any single weather event... Read more
“Data are insufficient for many regions of the world,” No life without water. Catastrophes like droughts or strong rains reflect our dependence on the water cycle and climate sys... Read more
Where can Florida panthers and loblolly pine, a major source of timber, survive as the climate shifts? An advance guard of 18-wheelers is scheduled to roll into a business park in Che... Read more
This talk marks the moment an innovation paradigm crossed the chasm to become an early adapter paradigm. Climate change did it 40 years ago… over the next 3-5 years End of Growt... Read more
Self-sealing valves also increase data reliability for airborne industrial and battlefield gas detection and point-of-contact medicine An air sampler the size of an ear plug is expected to c... Read more
Hack for a better world The Energy and Climate Hackday on March 3rd is encouraging developers, economists, environmentalists and other groups with coding, writing and climate modellin... Read more
Inexpensive and technologically accessible ways of capturing these gases Year after year, the world’s nations gather to find ways to reduce carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, wi... Read more
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is therefore likely a safer option than geoengineering Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past de... Read more
Significant implications for both climate science and sustainable development Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud devel... Read more
Dams have been designed for river flows that will soon no longer apply, according to new research Over the past four years, John Matthews has been traveling the world to better understand fr... Read more
As the Greek economy maintains its slide towards default and the global climate continues to change for the worse, one organisation, writing in Biotropica, has come up with some novel answer... Read more
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN I am a 56-year-old baby boomer, and looking around today it’s very clear that my generation had it easy: We grew up in the shadow of just one bomb — the nuclear bomb. That... Read more
PAUL KRUGMAN Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you’ve been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we’re hurtling toward catastroph... Read more
Cover via Amazon Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture. When... Read more