by Contributed | May 23, 2022 | Blog
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese took the oath of office Monday and immediately flew to a Tokyo summit with a “message to the world” that his country is ready to engage on climate change. The 59-year-old centre-left Labor Party leader was...
by Contributed | May 18, 2022 | Blog
By Marlowe HOOD UN chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday outlined what amounts to a global Marshall Plan for ushering in a world powered by renewable energy rather than coal, gas and oil. To avoid catastrophic climate change, humanity must “end fossil fuel...
by Contributed | May 11, 2022 | Blog
By Maddison Connaughton A prolonged summer heatwave in Australia left 91 percent of the Great Barrier Reef’s coral damaged by bleaching, according to a new government monitoring report. It was the first time on record the reef had suffered bleaching during a La...
by Contributed | May 9, 2022 | Blog
Rongedzayi Fambasayi, North-West University Six in 10 people will be living in cities by 2030. This is concerning. Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet cities can also do a lot to mitigate climate change and help people adapt to...
by Contributed | May 5, 2022 | Blog
By Kelly MACNAMARA Food is fundamental to the efforts to tackle climate change, according to a scientist who has spent decades tracing the interactions between global warming and what we eat. Cynthia Rosenzweig, head of the Climate Impacts Group at NASA Goddard...