The pandemic has set back efforts to achieve the original 2015 targets. The need for change to make them more attainable is stronger than ever.
The United Nations has confirmed an unwelcome…
In 1997, Charles Moore was sailing a catamaran from Hawaii to California when he and his crew got stuck in windless waters in the North Pacific Ocean. As they motored along, searching for a breeze…
The Ministry of Energy requires more than Sh10 billion to connect or upgrade electricity connectivity to all Level 2 to Level 5 hospitals for the leased medical equipment service (MES).
Under the…
Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human-induced climate change.
Biden’s $2tn green agriculture plan is ambitious but realistic. That’s important, because everything is riding on it.
The world’s food supply is imperiled by a climate crisis already upon us, and …
Egypt fears hydroelectric project will restrict limited waters on which its population depends.
Ethiopia has allowed a controversial dam built across the headwaters of the Nile to fill with rain…
Oil spills, intense heat waves, smoldering wildfires and thawing permafrost: Siberia is experiencing the destructive effects of climate change. And scientists say if action isn't taken soon, it's…
New research explores how lower-latitude oceans drive complex changes in the Arctic Ocean, pushing the region into a new reality distinct from the 20th-century norm.
The University of Alaska…
Study on impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on temperature suggests next generation may benefit.
It seems logical that if we dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions the global temperature will go down,…
What was the climate and sea level like at times in Earth’s history when carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was at 400ppm?
The last time global carbon dioxide levels were consistently at or above 400…
A sustainable future has no room for coal energy, the head of UN argues.
As the world starts thinking of the day after the coronavirus pandemic, the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres…
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations, supposed to reconcile environmental protection with socioeconomic development, are actually failing to protect biodiversity, according…
Natural gas is a versatile fossil fuel that accounts for about a third of U.S. energy use. Although it produces fewer greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants than coal or oil, natural gas is a…
The 2008 financial crisis spurred a number of youth movements including Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. A decade later, this anger resurfaced in a new wave of global protests, from Hong Kong…
Providing annually-updated five-year climate predictions at global and continental scales is the focus of a new international science collaboration co-ordinated by the WMO and led by the UK’s Met…
It took me much longer than it should have to realise that educating people about climate change science was not enough. Due perhaps to my personality type (highly rational, don’t talk to me about…
New simulations visualized the field's shifting flows over 100,000 years.
Our planet's dynamic magnetic field can change direction far more quickly than scientists suspected.
The 18-year-old birder and environmentalist on improving diversity in her field and how the pandemic has affected the natural world .
The young birder and environmental campaigner Mya-Rose Craig…
When an elephant dies in the wild, it's not uncommon to later find its bones scattered throughout the surrounding landscape.
That's one way you can tell other elephants have passed through the…
It's still debated exactly how the Namibian desert became home to a herd of wild horses.
One theory is that diamond prospectors brought horses more than a century ago to since-abandoned mining…
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