The world's farms produce only a handful of varieties of bananas, avocados, coffee and other foods – leaving them more vulnerable to the climate breakdown The climate breakdown is already threatening many of our favorite foods. In Asia, rice fields are being flooded with saltwater; cyclones have wiped out vanilla crops in Madagascar; in Central... Continue Reading →
WHO and almost 200 other health associations urge governments around world to halt ‘environmental vandalism’ The World Health Organization (WHO) and almost 200 other health associations have made an unprecedented call for a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. A call to action published on Wednesday, urges governments to agree a legally binding plan to phase... Continue Reading →
Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
Cutting heat loss from houses will be more effective in the long term than subsidising bills, according to analysis . Britain will be plunged into an even worse energy crisis in a year’s time without an immediate plan to improve leaky homes and dramatically reduce demand for gas, ministers have been warned. The UK ranks... Continue Reading →
UK must insulate homes or face a worse energy crisis in 2023, say experts
Long championed by climate activists, the green bank would provide funding to expand clean energy use across the US . Buried on page 667 of the Inflation Reduction Act is a climate policy that has been in the making for more than a decade. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund provides $27bn in funding for projects... Continue Reading →
‘Transformational’: could America’s new green bank be a climate gamechanger?
Night temperatures are rising fast, and that’s a problem for rice and other critical crops, which have fewer defenses at night by Olivia Paschal in Jonesboro, Arkansas with photographs by Ariel Cobbert As the sun sets outside with temperatures in the high 80s, where they’ll stay most of the night, several varieties of potted rice... Continue Reading →
Night-time heat is killing crops. Scientists are rushing to find resilient plants
Scientists say there are ample reasons to suspect global heating could lead to catastrophe The risk of global societal collapse or human extinction has been “dangerously underexplored”, climate scientists have warned in an analysis. They call such a catastrophe the “climate endgame”. Though it had a small chance of occurring, given the uncertainties in... Continue Reading →
Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’
Banks’ financing of coal, oil, and gas was higher in 2021 than it was in 2016, the year after the Paris agreement was adopted Around the world, we’re witnessing the impacts of global heating: in the past week, airport runways have melted in the UK, wildfires have torched huge swathes of Europe, and more than... Continue Reading →
Looking for someone to blame for the extreme heat? Try Wall Street
Official Title: Why you need to worry about the ‘wet-bulb temperature’ from The Guardian Scientists think we need to pay attention to a measure of heat and humidity – and it’s edging closer to the limits of human survivability In March, April and May this year, India and its neighbours endured repeated heatwaves that exposed... Continue Reading →
What does wet-bulb temperature mean?
Conflict and Covid make these troubling times, but national leaders must cooperate and take action now At the end of February this year, the world’s governments signed on to a statement that was startling in its strength and clarity. “The cumulative scientific evidence is unequivocal: Climate change is a threat to human wellbeing and planetary... Continue Reading →
For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more excuses
Experts says scientific advances are making it easier to attribute the damages of climate breakdown to companies’ activities Businesses could soon be facing a fresh wave of legal action holding them to account for their greenhouse gas emissions, owing to advances in climate science, experts have warned. More than 1,500 legal actions have already been brought... Continue Reading →
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