World Mar 9, 2021
Rising sea levels inundating coastal economies four times faster
The extraction of groundwater and other resources from beneath cities including Jakarta, New Orleans and Shanghai is causing them to slowly sink.
Asia Pacific Feb 8, 2021
200 missing in India after burst glacier causes flash flooding
At least 200 people are missing in northern India after a piece of Himalayan glacier fell into a river, causing a torrent that tore through two power plants and swept away roads and bridges, police said Sunday. Three bodies have been found and a desperate ...
Commentary / World Dec 16, 2020
Should we let algorithms make life-and-death decisions?
by Dirk Helbing and Peter Seele
Nature does not optimize; it co-evolves. It performs much better than human society in terms of sustainability and circular supply networks.
World / Science & Health Nov 21, 2020
Climate change is making winter ice more dangerous
by Veronica Penney
New research on the connection between climate change and winter drownings has found that reported drowning deaths are increasing exponentially in areas with warmer winters.
World Nov 17, 2020
The secret club for billionaires who care about climate change
by Ben Steverman
A few years ago, the hundreds of members of France’s Mulliez family, with a global retail empire worth more than $38 billion, decided they should take climate change more seriously — or rather, their investment portfolio should. But where to start? Climate change and the ...
Commentary / World Oct 21, 2020
Capitalism caused climate change; it must also be the solution
by David Fickling
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the the biggest drop in emissions in history and the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
World / Science & Health Aug 6, 2020
Ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached the lowest level since at least 1979 for July as temperatures spiked in the region, leaving large stretches of Russia’s Siberian coast mostly ice-free. Sea ice extent in the Arctic last month was 27 percent below the average set ...
Asia Pacific Jun 9, 2020
How to stay cool as planet warms? Singapore may have a solution
In Singapore, close to the Equator, temperatures regularly rise above 32 degrees Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) — but inside the soaring glass greenhouses of Gardens by the Bay, the country’s award-winning botanical park, it’s a pleasant 24 degrees. The daffodils and tulips of the flower dome, ...
Commentary / World May 23, 2020
by Gwynne Dyer
People who live in areas with extreme weather know storms are getting worse. Now there is hard data to prove it.
World / Science & Health Apr 19, 2020
Warmest oceans on record could set off a year of extreme weather
The world’s seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead. Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans all hit the record books for warmth last month, according ...
Commentary / World Mar 3, 2020
Sanders' Green New Deal would be a global disaster
by Mihir Sharma
Green jobs in the U.S. are nice, but won't get India and other big emitters off a carbon-intensive development path.
Business Feb 10, 2020
Energy markets need winter, and climate change is taking it away
by Olga Tanas, Naureen S. Malik and Stephen Stapczynski
Even before the deadly coronavirus struck, another menace confronted the global energy industry: the warmest winter anyone can remember. Russia's winter was so balmy that snow was trucked into downtown Moscow for New Year, and bears came out of hibernation. In Japan, ski competitions were ...