Blue Carbon: an effective climate mitigation and drawdown tool?
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by Alia ArmisteadBlue carbon is increasingly being championed by organisations and governments as a tool for climate change…
by Alia ArmisteadBlue carbon is increasingly being championed by organisations and governments as a tool for climate change…
Inara Scott is an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Oregon State University This is the twelfth in a series of…
By Sarah Krakoff and Shannon Roesler Sarah Krakoff is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law at University of Colorado Law School…
Newly elected Jair Bolsonaro, an authoritarian nationalist sometimes called the “tropical Trump,” has staked out an…
Just in: the latest climate change findings The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report issued on 8 October…
A decade ago, the “father of global warming”—the first scientist to sound the alarm on climate change in the 1980s to the US…
Climate report understates threat https://thebulletin.org/2018/10/climate-report-understates-threat/?utm_source=Bulletin%20Newsle…
Jeremy LentA global crisis of famine and mass starvation looms unless we can turn around the trajectory of our civilization. (Pho…
Jair Bolsonaro. Image by Fabio Rodrigues Pozzebom / Agencia Brasil. A Portuguese-language version of this commentary is…
As a UN panel prepares a report on 1.5C global warming, researchers warn of the risks of ignoring ‘feedback’ effectsThis week…
John AtchesonPeople don’t fully understand the true nature of the threat that climate change poses, and the press – when they…
Just as recent scientific work has underscored the dangers of climate change, technological advances and global awareness can…
Children born into poverty today will most likely not have the wealth or protection to weather the storms ahead. This needs to…
“Climate change is now reaching the end game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or…
Welcome to Part I of the Silver Gun Hypothesis. The main introduction to this essay is found here. The topics covered in Part I…
Comments|Add Comment|PrintThis Month in Climate Science, August 2018: Runaway Warming, Marine Heat Waves and Foods Get Less…
You’ve probably seen the term “new normal” used to describe how human caused climate change has forever changed the kind of…
As climate negotiators consider rules for verifying commitments under the Paris Agreement, they will have to confront a…
Climate change poses a threat to our mental health. Building connected communities is one way to combat a rise in suicide rates…
Welcome to the August High Five! On a monthly basis, the High Five post highlights the articles that have received the most…
It’s been a rough summer for B.C. The worst — actually — in recorded history for wildfires, which are made worse by climate…
O sistema climático terrestre possui limiares internos que, caso sejam ultrapassados, poderiam elevar a temperatura média…
Why Positive Climate Feedbacks Are So Bad Comments|Add Comment|PrintSardinas Canyon fire, New Mexico, June 26, 2018. Photo by…
Klimaforscher warnen davor, dass die Erde zu heiß werden könnte, auch wenn alle Staaten die Regeln des Pariser Klimaabkommens…
A recent peer reviewed article raises the the strong possibility of reaching an irreversible threshold in climate change. The…
By David Spratt and Ian Dunlop“Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking…
Continued emissions could reach a tipping point that will drive the planet into an irreversible, self-reinforcing hothouse…
Jessica Corbett, staff writerAlthough Trump has proved a historic villain in terms of addressing the urgent planetary crisis…
Featured Image: Spinosaurus aegypticus model. From Henderson (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Specifying the External…
Climate change is something that everyone needs to take seriously, and healthcare professionals are no exception. The global…
Report predicting spiralling global temperatures has been downloaded 270,000 times in just a few daysThe scorching temperatures…
The climate change challenge has fallen into a familiar pattern – more research papers on climate change, another COP (Conference…
OPINION: We now know enough about the nature of the earth system that the risk of crossing a planetary threshold that propels…
A new paper, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has received a lot of media attention. The…
Andy Rowell"The conference was organised by the leading climate denial think tank, Heartland Institute." (Photo: Screenshot/The…
by David SprattThe forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on 1.5°C will suggest a…
Kristine MattisDemonstrators carry signs on Black Friday in Seattle in 2010. (Photo: John B. Henderson/Flickr/cc)
On 6 August Will Steffen and others published a paper entitled “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene”. The…
The whole story in a table.... The graphic below (click on it for a large version) is adapted from a table in the supporting…
In the last 540 million years Earth’s history, five mass extinction events occurred as a result of extreme climate change.
Enlarge (credit: Kari Greer/USFS Gila National Forest) We tend to use "ice age" to mean a period where large ice sheets push…
Brace yourselves. The theme for this week’s Word Watch is health and the environment, and things get a bit hot and heavy. You…
Our current climate is near the very edge of stability, according to a major new study by 16 leading climate scientists. We are…
(Steven Hayward) Remember the good old days when socialism was “scientific”? Keep in mind that the orthodox Marxism of “dialectic…
Robert C. Koehler"So far this year the city has racked up more than 300 homicides, according to the Chicago Tribune. Something…
Le monde pourrait s'approcher d'un "seuil planétaire" qui, s'il est franchi, le transformera en serre, les températures se…
Figure from Steffen et al.: a global map of potentialtipping cascades. The individual tipping elements arecolor-coded according…
In a new study published in the Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences, climatologist Will Steffen from Australian…
JAKARTA — Dolphins haven’t had it easy in Bali, a resort island in Indonesia that’s massively popular with tourists. They’re…
"Hothouse Earth" is basically a self-sustaining engine of warming and carbon. Ummm ...Read More
ArticleNew research suggests that it may be more difficult to stall the impact of global warming than previously thought and…
NewsReaching the Paris Agreement goal to reduce carbon emissions doesn’t mean that certain “tipping elements," or natural Earth…
Andy Rowell"We could rapidly become 4 degrees warmer than today, as we spiral out of control very quickly, as one domino knocks…
Not good news.
Jon Queally, staff writerWarning of a possible domino effect as multiple climate feedback loops are triggered by a dynamic…
The future looks fiery and dangerous, according to new reports. But political will and grassroots engagement can change…
The planet urgently needs to transition to a green economy because fossil fuel pollution risks pushing the Earth into a
Researchers say the world may be approaching a tipping point, followed by a dangerous slide towards Hothouse Earth, an…
Ученые из Стокгольмского Университета, Стэнфорда и Кембриджа заявили, что средняя температура на Земле выходит из-под контроля че…
6 August 2018 (Stockholm Resilience Centre) – An international team of scientists has published a study in Proceedings of the…
There could be a planetary threshold beyond which the earth will keep warming even if we stop pumping out more fossil fuels …
This summer people have been suffering and dying because of heat waves and wildfires in many parts of the world. The past three…
Leading scientists warn that passing such a point would make efforts to reduce emissions increasingly futile A domino-like…
Даже если человечество выполнит Парижское соглашение по проблеме изменения климата, средняя температура на Земле все равно может…