Yesterday’s Silk Road could be tomorrow’s environmental superhighway
While China is building a gigantic modern-day upgrade of the famed ancient Silk Road resplendent in global cooperation in the name of economic expansion,...
Informing action on a historic climate agreement
The Paris Agreement on climate change goes into effect today, but while the agreement set ambitious targets for tackling climate change, scientists say there...
Carbon levy could limit impact of climate change, study suggests
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Adapting to climate change a major challenge for forests
Climate change is happening so quickly that a question mark hangs over whether forests can adapt accordingly without human interference and can continue to...
What the ancient carbon dioxide record may mean for future climate change
Scientists have reconstructed the ancient atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) record from about 300 million years ago. Their study reveals previously unknown fluctuations of atmospheric...
Climate change impairs survival instincts of fish and can make them swim towards predators
Fish farms may hold the key to studying the impact of rising carbon dioxide on marine life, and help researchers understand if fish could...
Risk analysis for common ground on climate loss and damage
The Paris Agreement included groundbreaking text on the need for a mechanism to help identify risks beyond adaptation and support the victims of climate-related...
Drought-tolerant species thrive despite returning rains in the Sahel
Following the devastating droughts in the 70s and 80s in the Sahel region south of the Sahara desert, vegetation has now recovered. What surprised...
‘Robomussels’ used to monitor climate change
Tiny robots have been helping researchers study how climate change affects biodiversity. These “robomussels” have the shape, size, and color of actual mussels, with...
Temporary extinction reprieve for some frogs
Australian scientists have good news for frog conservation: there may be longer than expected time to intervene before climate change causes extinction of some...
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US Energy Department tells staff to stop using the phrases climate change and Paris...
Staff at the US Energy Department were reportedly told to stop using the phrases “climate change”, “emissions reduction” and “Paris Agreement” in all briefings...
EPA seeks to scuttle cleanup of coal power plant pollution.
The Trump administration is once again seeking to scuttle cuts to pollution from coal-fired power plants.The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked a federal...