We can’t Control Floods without Farmers
Simple arithmetic tells us that a few tweaks to farming could make a huge difference to Britain’s ability to cope with floods – and with the droughts we could be facing in a few months’ time.
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Aliso Canyon: How bad is the California gas leak disaster?
In Los Angeles, an invisible environmental disaster is unfolding.
The Hidden Agenda: How Veiled Techno-utopias Shore Up the Paris Agreement
The Paris Agreement is a genuine triumph of international diplomacy and of how the French people brought an often-fractious world together to see beyond national self interest.
Map: Where Climate Change Could Hit Electricity Production
Research out this week maps where power plants around the world are most at risk from higher water temperatures and decreased water availability.
Record-Breaking 2015 Temperatures Connected To Ongoing Fish Kill on Mississippi Beaches
Cleanup crews were dispatched to beaches in Hancock County, Mississippi, on December 27th to remove over a thousand dead fish and the remains of other animals.
How Science Can Help to Halt The Western Bark Beetle Plague
For residents of the Rocky Mountain region of the United States and Canada, global warming is not an abstract concept.
To Change Everything, it’s Going to Take Everything We’ve Got
We’re in a crisis so deep, so knotted, so unprecedented, and so urgent that, well, we have to change everything, pretty much. Or else.
Weather that Reminds us to Give Thanks
Our better angels – our logical analysis of problems, our compassionate desire to help others – are forever warped by the gravitational pull of our primate drive to make ourselves look good….
Inside the Paris Climate Agreement: Hope or Hype?
It has become a predictable pattern at the annual UN climate conferences for participants to describe the outcome in widely divergent ways.
Let’s Define Degrowth before we Dismiss it
The reluctance of degrowth-critics to define growth makes for poor debate.
Too Little, Too Late
Last week, after a great deal of debate, the passengers aboard the Titanic voted to impose modest limits sometime soon on the rate at which water is pouring into the doomed ship’s hull.
Paris: the Untold Story
This is a report about COP21 that didn’t make the headlines…
