Heatwaves have scorched the planet in 2023 (Ulysse BELLIER) Facing record-shattering temperatures and a geopolitical tinderbox, countries are scrambling to lay the groundwork for crucial UN climate talks next month tasked with salvaging global warming goals laid out in the landmark Paris deal. Ministers meet next week in the […] Click here to view original […]

Scientists say Australia’s soil carbon methodologies are flawed and overestimate emissions reductions, leading to warnings that farmers involved in the scheme could face a big bill down the track. Under the offset scheme, producers receive credits for storing carbon in the soil that companies or the federal government can […] Click here to view original

“Without nature, we have nothing,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres had said last year. Scientists from across the world collectively called for the UN, world leaders, and health authorities to address climate change and biodiversity loss as one global health emergency. The report published by more than 200 health […] Click here to view original

Can concrete dust help to fight climate change? This Irish startup is trying it out on US farmland An Irish tech startup is trialling the use of concrete dust on farms to combat climate change. Silicate, which is based in Sligo, has developed an ‘enhanced weathering technology’ which aims […] Click here to view original

“Are museums shrines to the past, hubs of engagement for the present, or shapers of the future?” asks Beka Economopoulos in her review of the 2019 collection Museum Activism . Economopoulos co-founded and directs the Natural History Museum , a traveling pop-up museum that reimagines “natural history,” but it’s […] Click here to view original

Enlarge / Atlantic puffin, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Norway.Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images The brisk increase in warming rates in the Arctic is bringing rapid shifts in range for plants and animals across the region’s tree of life. Researchers say those changes can lead species that normally wouldn’t […] Click here to view original