How safeguarding land protects our future
We can turn our growing vulnerability into a source of innovation and hope at COP17 in Mongolia, writes UNEP executive director Inger Andersen
What Two Weeks without Power in Gary, Indiana Tells Us About Our Worsening Climate Crisis
GARY, INDIANA – Ruben Chavez was in an elevator at his high-rise apartment in Gary, Indiana, on August 11, when severe storms knocked out the power.
Super PAC Targeting Conservatives Against Clean Energy Touts Fifth Republican Primary Win
Both President Donald Trump and a clean energy super PAC that backed Darline Graham, sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, are celebrating her victory over Rep. Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s South Carolina Republican Senate primary.
South Africa’s new gold rush: Big money, high stakes in emerging spekboom restoration sector
After decades of livestock pressure, 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of farmland in South Africa’s Albany thicket biome need rehabilitation — the way a burn victim needs lifesaving skin grafts.
Wildfires, droughts and overcrowded destinations: does tourism still have a future?
Itself partly responsible for the climate crisis, tourism is also falling victim to its effects, from huge wildfires to dwindling water supplies. Yet as anthropologist and essayist Aude Vidal explains in this interview with Mediapart, modern society finds it difficult to resist the lure of travel and holidays away.
Factcheck: 10 flaws in the Conservative report on ‘cheap power’
In a new report, the opposition Conservatives argue that UK electricity prices are too high and that it would be…
Trump Administration Speeds Up Environmental Review for 800-Mile Alaska Oil Pipeline
The Trump administration is expediting an environmental review of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline System that would reauthorize the project for another 30 years, including the pipeline, pump stations, access roads, bridges and a fuel gas line that lie within the right-of-way.
Schuften, wenn die Straße schmilzt
Hitze, der Klimawandel überhaupt sind eine Klassenfrage. Wer bei extremen Temperaturen draußen oder in schlecht gekühlten Räumen arbeiten muss, kriegt schnell gesundheitliche Probleme, irgendwann wird es lebensbedrohlich. Effektiver Hitzeschutz existiert an vielen Arbeitsplätzen nicht.
Iran war boosted Russian fertiliser revenues by over £5m a day
A farmer in the US prepares to spread fertiliser. US purchases of Russian urea reached record highs in March and April as prices soared. Photo: Mark Mirko/Connecticut Public via Getty Images
Sieben Klimabücher für den Sommer
Wir führen die Tradition fort und teilen unsere aktuellen Lesetipps für den Sommer mit Dir.
India needs climate adaptation cash to be an investment, not a quick fix
As governments look towards COP31, India must push not only for more adaptation finance, but for funds to arrive in time for projects that limit disasters like Assam’s floods
Climate change exposes 580 million children to 20 extra ‘heat-stress days’ every year
More than 40% of children under the age of 10 globally are already experiencing at least 20 additional “heat-stress days” due to climate change.
Historische Bilder von Niedrigwasser der Elbe sind kein Gegenbeweis zum Klimawandel
Historische Aufnahmen zeigen einen niedrigen Pegel der Elbe im Jahr 1904. Aber sie widerlegen nicht den Zusammenhang zwischen aktuellen Extremereignissen und dem Klimawandel.
We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil
I've sent off requests to Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. Let's see how they respond.
“What can I do?” The answer is still anything.
Revisiting a 2021 call to action in the wake of the Nepal-Tibet floods.
Die Strafgerichte tun sich schwer mit der Klimakrise
Dritte Gewalt Ein Mann warnte vor sechs Jahren auf dem Bundesplatz vor den Folgen der Klimaerwärmung. Mitten im diesjährigen Hitzesommer muss er sich dafür vor Gericht verantworten. Brigitte Hürlimann Vivienne Kuster Boas Ruh
Klimawandel: Arbeitnehmer sind die Ersten, die alles verlieren, und die Letzten, denen geholfen wird
Lange Zeit haben wir Gauchos extreme Wetterereignisse als etwas betrachtet, das weit von unserer Realität entfernt ist. Die große Überschwemmung von 1941 war als historisches Ereignis verzeichnet worden, als eine Episode, die sich nicht wiederholen würde. Diese Überzeugung hat uns unvorbereitet gelassen.
Are wasps losing their rhythm?
Fluctuations to Spring patterns due to climate breakdown is playing havoc with Britain's wasps.
Explainer: The CMIP7 emissions scenarios – and how they explore future climate change
Every few years, climate modelling groups run a coordinated set of simulations that explore climate change in the future. Carbon Brief unpacks how the new scenarios were designed and how they differ.
Atomkrieg und Klimawandel: Apokalypse früher und heute
Ein Atomkrieg war als Bedrohung überschaubar – verglichen mit dem Klimawandel.
