Newsletter Credit: bashta/BigStock Photo ID: 24119156 Fossil fuel companies finally accept the climate crisis – just not their role in it The era of corporate climate denial is over but in courts around the world the big names have shifted strategy.
Newsletter Credit: Ales Krivec/Unsplash+ Rise of the shrubs: What happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? A long-running experiment in Colorado provides an ‘alarming’ view of how rapidly unchecked global heating could transform fragile ecosystems.
Newsletter Credit: Khalil Radi/Unsplash Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows Food systems of low-income nations are projected to deteriorate seven times as fast as those of wealthy ones.
Impacts Credit: hikrcn/BigStock Photo ID: 61685276 Women and girls bearing brunt of water shortages globally, UN warns Unesco calls for action as lack of access and sanitation hits health, education and food security of women.
Newsletter Credit: Leonid Ikan/BigStock Photo ID: 82710347 Revealed: The world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heating Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts.
Politics Credit: Edgar Bullon/BigStock Photo ID: 343343230 Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? While tailings dams are meant to last for ever, extreme weather events are making many unstable – with devastating consequences for nature and humans
Solutions Credit: Shane Gibson/Unsplash Testing the waters: can pumping chemicals into the ocean help stop global heating? To some it was a reckless experiment but scientists hope the dispersal of 65,000 litres of sodium hydroxide into the Gulf of Maine could ease the climate crisis.
