Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work in the fight against climate change by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands. This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive.
New Orleans averted disaster this month when tropical storm Barry delivered less rain in the Crescent City than forecasters originally feared.
- By Roger Tyers
While in many countries new cars, domestic appliances, and even houses now have mandatory energy efficiency disclosures, air travel’s carbon footprint is largely invisible, despite it being relatively much bigger.
U.S. states and cities hand out tens of billions in taxpayer dollars every year to companies as economic incentives.
Media coverage of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef may have been a major tipping point for public concerns around climate change, according to research published today.
Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including to tackle climate change. And Australia’s sprawling car-based cities are gradually changing to embrace green or living infrastructure.
“Coal is dead.” These are not the words of a Greenpeace activist or left-wing politician, but of Jim Barry, the global head of the infrastructure investment group at Blackrock — the world’s largest asset manager.
- By Michael Hamm
There are serious challenges to global food supply everywhere we look.
New research offers a hard link between reforestation of marginal, degraded, or abandoned agricultural land and significant benefits in water quality.
- By MSNBC
June was the hottest June ever (and other climate curiosities) as polls show that Americans increasingly acknowledge climate change.
"There is no denying it: The longer we wait to take bold action to curb emissions, the higher the costs will be for all of us."
Urban Canadians are feeling the impact of climate change. Flooding in Quebec this spring damaged nearly 1,900 homes in 126 municipalities, causing widespread psychological distress.
Laura Faye Tenenbaum is the Senior Science Editor for the NASA’s Global Climate Change publication and a member of the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She develops
Global climate change is endangering small island countries, many of them developing nations, potentially harming their ability to function as independent states.
Climate scientists insist in a recent report that fundamental changes in how energy is consumed and supplied are urgently required to avoid serious damage to life and property
- By ETH Zurich
A new technology produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air.
Agriculture plays a key role in food security in Africa. It is also crucial to the economic sector, accounting for between 40%-65% of jobs.
Elephants have long captivated our attention, partly because of their sheer size and majesty. But we’re also struck by their complex behaviour.
Doctors and economists may seem like strange partners. We spend our days working on very different problems in very different settings.
Coral reefs are home to so many species that they often are called “the rainforests of the seas.”
As the climate crisis is increasingly felt across the globe, protesters take to the streets and politicians scrabble to respond, a crucial question is beginning to emerge.
President Donald Trump has long made blocking the thousands of Central Americans who head to the southern U.S. border, most of them seeking asylum, from entering and staying in the country a top priority.
- By Madhur Anand
In a 2015 essay, poet and novelist Margaret Atwood wrote, “It’s not climate change, it’s everything change.”