What we need is to turn the necessary action on its head There is a chasm between two different ways of dealing with climate change. No, no, let’s not start to argue that it isn’t happening, or it’s not us humans or we don’t need to do anything. Let’s just start from the idea that …
A decade ago, the world got together and decided to fix the climate crisis by adopting the Paris Agreement. I remember it like yesterday. This was December 2015 at the UN climate talks in Paris. I was standing in front of a CNN camera as the news came through an earpiece: Nearly every country on …
WHO and global partners are calling for the protection of people’s health to be recognized as the most powerful driver of climate action, as a new global report released today warns that continued overreliance on fossil fuels and failure to adapt to a heating world are already having a devastating toll on human health. The …
The warming of the world’s oceans caused by climate change helped double Hurricane Melissa’s wind speed in less than 24 hours over the weekend, climate scientists said Monday. Melissa is currently a Category 5 storm, the highest category, with sustained wind speeds of over 157 mph (252 kph). Melissa is forecast to make landfall in Jamaica …
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With healthy populations of animals that disperse seeds, tropical forests can absorb up to four times more carbon. A lot of attention has been paid to how climate change can reduce biodiversity. Now MIT researchers have shown that the reverse is also true: Loss of biodiversity can jeopardize regrowth of tropical forests, one of Earth’s …
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