World Aug 1, 2021
Colombian city plants 'green corridors' to beat rising heat
by Anastasia Moloney
The measure in Medellin, funded by city hall, is aimed at helping provide a cooler environment for its residents.
World Aug 1, 2021
Since Wednesday, the ice sheet has melted by around 8 billion tons a day, twice its normal average rate during summer.
Asia Pacific Jul 31, 2021
Climate change is coming for the Great Barrier Reef
by Kate Mackenzie
Coral reefs are one of the world’s most visible and sensitive barometers of climate change.
Commentary / World Jul 28, 2021
How climate change can bring Latin America back
by Shannon O'Neil
For Latin America, this quickening green transition could attract hundreds of billions in investment, help spur an economic recovery and let nations leapfrog technologically.
Business Jul 28, 2021
BOJ policymakers call for analysis of climate change funding program impacts
Japan's central bank has left deciding what qualifies as green investment to private-sector financial institutions.
World Jul 28, 2021
Earth's 'vital signs' worsening as humanity's impact deepens
A group of scientists said governments have failed to address the root cause of climate change: "the overexploitation of the Earth."
World Jul 27, 2021
Record-shattering heat waves caused by pace of warming, study says
The findings, reported in Nature Climate Change, suggest that humanity is likely to see a lot more deadly scorchers in the coming decades.
World / Science & Health Jul 26, 2021
Extreme weather renews focus on climate change as scientists update forecasts
by Andrea Januta
The list of extremes in just the last few weeks has been startling.
Asia Pacific Jul 26, 2021
India faces deluge of disasters on the front line of climate change
In the first seven months of this year alone, the nation has experienced two cyclones, a deadly glacier collapse, a sweltering heatwave and killer floods.
World Jul 25, 2021
Climate 'mysteries' still puzzle scientists, despite progress
What worries one of the world's leading climate scientists the most? Heat waves — and particularly the tendency of current models to underestimate the intensity of these bursts of deadly, searing temperature. This is one of the "major mysteries" science still has to unravel, climatologist Robert ...
Commentary / World Jul 25, 2021
The problem with Europe’s green unilateralism
by Hans-werner Sinn
Rarely, except in wartime, have market economies been subjected to the sort of rigid central planning that the European Commission now proposes in order to curb carbon dioxide emissions.
World Jul 24, 2021
South African farmers dream of drought insurance on climate front line
by Emma Rumney
Only 20% of the country's commercial grain farmers have coverage, with each year getting hotter and drier