Tag Archives: climate

Is our planet approaching a climate change cliff edge? Across the world, from the forests to the oceans, the consequences of humanity’s activities are being felt – and the effects could be catastrophic. Here are four key climate emergencies happening …

The warmer it gets, the more people crank up the air conditioning (AC). In fact, AC is booming in nations across the world: it’s predicted that around two thirds of the world’s households could have an air conditioner by 2050, …

The world may finally be waking to the reality of the climate and ecological crisis, after 30 years of inaction. But while the UK government has declared a climate and ecological emergency, ongoing plans for airport expansions suggest we’re flying …

Forced migration is the political hot potato of our time. With new global records of displaced people set every year, foreign aid falling and an expected surge of climate refugees on the horizon, we will all be affected by forced migration in the years to come. …

One thousand and twenty-three lawsuits dealing with climate change were filed in the U.S. court system between May 2018 and May 2019, according to the Grantham Institute. There were about 205 times less climate change cases in Germany, which saw only …

Belching bovines are a primary culprit when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. Farmed livestock are responsible for 14.5% of all emissions related to human activity, and cows make up by far the largest proportion of that. Although vegan diets are …

Few would deny the threat to our planet posed by climate change, or the role that humans have played in the degradation of the natural environment. These arguments have been highlighted by Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish activist whose single-minded …

Planting almost a billion hectares of trees worldwide is the “biggest and cheapest tool” for tackling climate change, according to a new study. The researchers claimed that reforestation could remove 205 gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere – equivalent to …

A recent analysis by Moody’s Analytics focused on the economic impact of climate change. The research looked at four different scenarious, entailing temperature increases of 1, 1.9, 2.4 and 4.1°C up to 2100. For example, global economic damage is expected to $54 trillion …

Imagine a robotic lens zooming in on the wheat sprout. It captures images and sends them to an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform that predicts precisely how long it will take for it to mature. The advantages of having information like …