ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Several dozen young people wearing light blue T-shirts emblazoned with #teachclimate filled a hearing room at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul in late February. It was a cold and windy day, in contrast to the state’s nearly snowless, warm winter. The high school and college students and other advocates, … Read more
While ocean warming and pollution continue to degrade the world’s coral reefs unprecedented ratescientists are investigating the feasibility of preserving it – in the outermost room. The idea is to store a biobank — a biobank that stores samples of biological material that have been cooled to temperatures low enough to essentially freeze in time … Read more
In sweltering Brazil, the worst floods ever killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about four million inhabitants. Voters and politicians at the world’s biggest elections in India are fainting from heat that can reach 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people … Read more
Sea ice on the coast of Scotland with bitterly cold, stormy winters and temperatures in Europe dropping by 10 degrees. It doesn’t sound like the average climate forecast. But it’s a realistic scenario, and it could happen in the space of a few decades, experts warn. The culprit is man-made CO2 emissions. Although the world … Read more
New Delhi – It’s still spring, but hundreds of millions of people in South and Southeast Asia have already had to deal with scorching heat. The summer heat has arrived early, setting records and even costing lives, and is expected to get much worse in May and June when summer actually begins. By early May, … Read more
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — When Ademola Adesina founded a startup in 2015 to offer solar and battery subscription packages to individuals and businesses in Nigeria, it was a lot harder to raise money than it is today. Climate tech was new to Africa, the continent was a young destination for venture capital money, there were … Read more
As we try to balance the challenges of tackling climate change, promoting healthy diets and enabling farmer livelihoods, one thing is clear: sustainable agriculture is the only way forward. These three major challenges encompass the three dimensions of sustainability: social, environmental and economic. The most important question is: are we doing enough? Despite significant recent … Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From centuries-old fertilization methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers on the agriculturally dependent African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst impacts of a warming planet yet contributes the least to the … Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From centuries-old fertilization methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers on the agriculturally dependent African continent are looking to the past and future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst impacts of a warming planet yet contributes the least to the … Read more