When it comes to climate change, moving people and development away from at-risk areas can be viewed, not as a defeat, but as a smart strategy that allows communities to adapt and thrive. That’s the case for carefully planned “managed retreat” made by three environmental researchers in an article published in the Policy Forum section of ...
With climate patterns across the world changing unpredictably, experts have been saying that the consequences of such climate change could be devastating for human society. A series of reports now warns that the climate crisis will trigger widespread hunger and water scarcity that could push the world into intense conflicts. The crisis According to a ...
At the recently concluded G20 summit in Osaka, major world leaders agreed on a climate deal similar to the one that had been presented in the previous meeting in December 2018. President Trump has kept the U.S. out of the Paris Accord. The climate deal The document signed in Osaka declares that the signatories are ...
A few years back, the Paris Climate Agreement was signed by world governments. The agreement aims to cut back greenhouse gas emissions over the next several decades with the goal being to keep the world’s temperature from rising above 1.5°C. In October 2018, the United Nations issued a report that warned about the consequences of ...
Lab meat, as the name suggests, basically means meat that is grown in a lab. Traditionally, an animal has to be raised to maturity and then killed for the meat to be harvested. Lab meat does not require such a lengthy process. Instead, a technology called “cellular culture” is used where muscle tissues are created ...
A United Nations report has warned that 5 billion people across the world could suffer from water shortages by 2050. The situation is being created due to multiple factors, like increased water demand, polluted supplies, and climate change. An impending water shortage crisis According to estimates, human beings use almost 4,600 cubic km of water ...
Beijing has vowed to dampen its coal activities to help reduce the worldwide emission of greenhouse gases. However, a recent joint report from environmental groups shows China doing quite the opposite, thus putting global climate change goals in danger. Sneaky moves Global Energy Monitor, Sierra Club, and Greenpeace have published a joint report titled Boom ...
Led by Swansea University’s Tree Ring Research Group, researchers from Sweden, Finland, and Norway analyzed the information contained in the rings of ancient pine trees from northern Scandinavia to reveal how clouds have reduced the impact of natural phases of warmth in the past. Clouds are doing so again now to moderate the warming caused ...
Thousands of school students across the world have been skipping classes over the past weeks, angry at the governments. Their demand? They want politicians to act on climate change. The protests were sparked by a 16-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, who camped outside her country’s parliament last August and accused the lawmakers of not honoring ...
Total human carbon levels emissions could match those of Earth’s last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than five generations, new research finds. A new study finds humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate 9 to 10 times higher than the greenhouse gas was emitted during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), ...
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