From seeds to survival: A farmer’s story from Tajikistan
For a farming community that depends on seasonal consistency, climate change creates uncertainty at every stage of production.
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How an ecosystem restoration community is regenerating water cycles to mitigate forest fires in Portugal
Rewetting and restoring wetlands, building small dams, and restoring streams create landscape-level discontinuities that interrupt how fire propagates by putting water back into the land rather than letting it run off. EcoAtivo is one organisation putting this directly into practice.
How climate change intensified Europe’s record-breaking June heat
For the second time in two months, Europe has been hit by a record-breaking heatwave. The extreme conditions come on the 50th anniversary of a historic 1976 heatwave in the UK, prompting many comparisons between the two events by scientists and the media.
Exploring a series of surprising sustainability barriers
Fake shopping apps, anti-vaxx dating sites and business as usual through climate disasters are stark reminders of the surreal lengths we’ll go to preserve a sense of normality, and how readily corporations will profit from it.
French climate lawsuit offers a window into the next round of the global legal fight
In the TotalEnergies case, the company acknowledged that its own activities result in emissions that pose risks to the environment.
Republicans are trying to give big oil immunity for causing climate chaos
A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. Now, as the links become clearer, oil and gas lobbyists are scrambling to shield the industry from a wave of lawsuits and state laws seeking to hold profiteers accountable.
After record-breaking heatwaves, can Britain’s new Prime Minister deliver on climate adaptation?
As the UK emerges from an unprecedented three heatwaves, one of them a record-breaking heatstorm, with public concern rising along with temperatures, the new Prime Minister must put climate breakdown firmly on his agenda.
Europe’s May–June heatwaves linked to thousands of deaths as scientists improve mortality estimates
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of reports from public health authorities and scientists that estimate the deaths caused by Europe’s record-breaking summer heatwaves.
Trump is fighting migrants while fueling the crises that force people to flee
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion — of planet Earth itself. They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone.
Creating resilient futures: Navigating ecological and civilizational contraction
A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging limits, yet insists the future is not fixed and asks how we can move through this transition with dignity, relationality and mutual respect.
Repeated storms are turning disaster recovery into a way of life, and leaving communities facing disaster fatigue
As storms intensify in our warming world, recovery no longer feels permanent in places at risk of disasters. Instead, it’s too often a temporary reprieve before the next disaster hits. Recognizing community disaster fatigue is an important step toward building resilient recovery systems.
The Great Dying offers a warning for a world ignoring climate collapse
Are we doomed within the next fifty years, or will it take many centuries? The end-Permian “Great Dying” can help us put today’s extinction crisis into perspective. The unsettling parallels offer a possible roadmap if we learn to see geological history as a series of recurring patterns rather than distant, irrelevant events.
