Enough, already: why humanity must get on board with the concept of ‘sufficiency’

Friday - Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.

‘Nowhere is safe’: shattered Asheville shows stunning reach of climate crisis

Wednesday - The historic North Carolina city was touted as a climate ‘haven’ – a reputation deadly Hurricane Helene left in ruins.

Climate scientists sound alarm over Asia’s rising seas

Wednesday - Scientists are urgently calling for global action, including reducing fossil fuel use, as the Pacific Ocean’s sea levels rise faster than the global average and the warming Indian Ocean drives storms, erratic rainfall, and droughts.

Sorry, AI won’t ‘fix’ climate change

Wednesday - OPINION: OpenAI’s Sam Altman claims AI will deliver an "Intelligence Age," but tech breakthroughs alone can't solve global warming.

Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged

Wednesday - Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy by specific times could trigger benevolent cascades, a report claims.

Sloths may die out due to climate change

Wednesday - The survival of sloths is under threat due to climate change, according to a new study.

ESG is dead. Long live ESG

Tuesday - OPINION: We must urgently address the tension between profitability and sustainability.

Earth is close to passing 7 of 9 planetary boundaries

Monday - Scientists have found that Earth may soon pass another planetary boundary, meaning it could be operating outside of the safe limits for seven of the nine defined planetary boundaries.

Stay or go? Pacific Islanders face climate's grim choice

Monday - Rising waters are slowly but surely swallowing Carnie Reimers's backyard in the Marshall Islands, pushing her toward an agonizing choice: stay in the only home she's ever known or leave and face the...

Helene gaining strength from climate change effects

27 Sep 24 - Tropical Storm Helene is gaining strength from warmer waters in the Gulf of Mexico, an effect linked to climate change that appears to make hurricanes and storms more powerful.

Countries can transform global energy sector by fully implementing 2030 goals: IEA

26 Sep 24 - A new report from the International Energy Agency shows tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency are possible with the right enabling conditions.

Poor nations ask world's richest to do more on climate

26 Sep 24 - Developing nations on Monday pleaded at the U.N. General Assembly for the world's richest to do more to help them cope with the hardships they face from climate extremes.

UN adopts pact that aims to save global cooperation

25 Sep 24 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a "Pact for the Future", which U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described as a landmark agreement that is a "step-change towards more effective,...

Ozone layer on track for full recovery, WMO report says

25 Sep 24 - Earth’s ozone layer — damaged in the 1970s and 1980s by ozone-depleting substances — is continuing to recover well, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s newest Ozone and UV...

Farming must pay for its emissions, says EU chief climate scientist

24 Sep 24 - The EU’s chief climate scientist has warned that the bloc will miss its climate targets if it does not force the agricultural sector to pay for its greenhouse gas emissions.

COP29 aims to boost battery storage and grids for renewables, as pledges proliferate

24 Sep 24 - Governments are being asked to sign up to a goal to boost energy storage six-fold and renew or add 80 million km of electric grids, among other initiatives.

The path to global carbon pricing

24 Sep 24 - To tackle climate change, the polluter pays principle needs to spread further and wider.

‘We’re changing Earth’s temperature at a rate that exceeds anything we know about’

23 Sep 24 - In a new study looking at Earth’s surface temperature over the past 485 million years, nowhere in that long record have scientists been able to find a time when the rate of warming is as fast as it...

Solar power continues to surge in 2024

23 Sep 24 - Analysis of national monthly data for solar capacity additions shows that the world will - once again - beat forecasts, even though expectations are higher than ever.

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