The Bank for International Settlements – the “central bank” for central banks – made headlines with a report outlining how the next major financial crisis may come from unexpected climate risks.
Experienced anglers recognize that for a trout, the ultimate “steak dinner” is a stonefly or mayfly.
This erasure of one government’s climate project by its successor was only the tip of the melting iceberg.
It’s far easier to avoid burning fossil fuels than it is to clean up CO? emissions once they’re in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Can the future be predicted? Most certainly. Can anyone or anything predict the future with any certainty?
- By Tim Birkhead
Between the summer of 2015 and the spring of 2016, a marine heatwave swept the northern Pacific Ocean that was hotter and lasted longer than any since records began in 1870.
Noisy reefs are a very good thing. So good, in fact, that we might be able to use the sound of healthy coral reefs to improve the quickly increasing number of degraded ones.
For over a quarter of a century, United Nations climate negotiations have failed to reach a legally binding treaty.
This analysis shows that we're heading in the wrong direction and really need to slow emissions growth from the oil, gas, and petrochemical industries.
- By Dale Nimmo
Have you ever wondered how our native wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide?
Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York and Sadiq Khan of London on Tuesday urged every major city in the world to divest from the fossil fuel industries that are wrecking the planet.
How does your food shop affect the planet? Well, think of it like this
2019 might well be remembered as the year the world caught fire. Some 2.9 million hectares of eastern Australia have been incinerated in the past few months, an area roughly the same size as Belgium.
- By Mike Lee
The catastrophic bushfires raging across much of Australia have not only taken a huge human and economic toll, but also delivered heavy blows to biodiversity and ecosystem function.
Climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale.
Climate researchers have not given up hope and authors were asked to highlight some more positive stories from 2019.
The 12 Days of Christmas is a song that promises a great deal, but there’s a line that carollers may have to omit in future.
- By Hal Gurgenci
Geothermal means, literally, “earth heat”. The temperature of the earth increases as we drill deeper towards its core.
Society’s defining issues are rarely presented as raw facts and stats, and climate change is no exception.
Intensive agriculture may be nourishing most of the Earth’s inhabitants, but it’s doing the opposite to earth itself.
The most important individual climate action will depend on each person’s particular circumstances
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) recently declared climate change a health emergency, reflecting similar positions taken by a growing list of peak medical bodies around the world.
- By Kelly Reed
About a quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions that humans generate each year come from how we feed the world.