World needs ‘rapid climate cooling’ as 2℃ overshoot now likely

Jun 29, 2022 | Opinion

International community must prioritize researching and developing an overshoot risk management plan or risk irreversible catastrophic damage to the biophysical and physiochemical systems that support human civilization, argues Graeme Taylor.

The multinational companies that industrialized the Amazon rainforest

Jun 2, 2023 | Articles

A handful of global giants dominate the industrialization of the Amazon rainforest. Basic details about cattle ranching, logging, and mining are hard to establish despite efforts to ban commodities linked to deforestation.

Peas that don’t taste like peas could help the planet

May 31, 2023 | Articles

Scientists in the UK are developing peas that don’t taste like peas. As more and more people turn to plant-based food, they are hoping to produce a more planet-friendly, home-grown alternative to importing soya beans.

Toronto’s Don River, once declared dead, is roaring back to life

May 22, 2023 | Articles

River’s wildlife is gingerly returning to areas that were once the site of heavy industry and its waters will soon become cleaner as the city spends billions to save it.

Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time

May 17, 2023 | News

Researchers say there’s now a 66% chance we will pass the 1.5C global warming threshold between now and 2027. The chances are rising due to emissions from human activities and a likely El Niño weather pattern later this year.

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’, but their makers are

May 8, 2023 | Opinion

Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves, says Naomi Klein.

Why the godfather of AI fears for humanity

May 5, 2023 | Articles

Geoffrey Hinton recently quit Google warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Is AI really going to destroy us? And how long do we have to prevent it?

Five climate myths pushed by the US beef industry

May 4, 2023 | Articles

These are the arguments spun by big beef titans to persuade consumers that meat eating has negligible impact on the planet.

Big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend, and downplay

May 3, 2023 | Articles

The US beef industry is creating an army of influencers and citizen activists to help amplify a message that will be key to its future success: that you shouldn’t be too worried about the growing attention around the environmental impacts of its production.

The champion fighting to save Uganda’s gorillas

Apr 23, 2023 | Articles

Under the watchful and resourceful eye of award-winning conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Uganda’s threatened mountain gorilla population has made an impressive recovery – as has the local community.

Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The UK has no excuse

Apr 21, 2023 | Articles, Opinion

Why does a wealthy, powerful nation struggle so badly while a small, much poorer one succeeds?

Russia jails Putin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza for treason

Apr 17, 2023 | Politics & Human Rights

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been found guilty of treason and jailed for 25 years in Russia. The 41-year-old criticized Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and told the court he stood by his words.

The mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons

Apr 9, 2023 | News

In a few days, a probe will be blasted into space on an eight-year mission to survey the icy moons of distant Jupiter. In doing so, it will open up a new chapter in the hunt for extraterrestrial life.

Australia passes most significant climate law in a decade

Mar 30, 2023 | News

Deal between Labor government and Greens requires total emissions from big industrial sites to come down, not just be offset.

World ‘population bomb’ may never go off as feared, finds study

Mar 26, 2023 | News

A Club of Rome study projects that on current trends the world population will reach 8.8 billion before the middle of the century, then decline rapidly. The peak could come earlier if governments take steps to raise average incomes and education levels.

Scientists release ‘survival guide’ to avert climate disaster

Mar 20, 2023 | News

The report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is agreed on by all governments involved. The study aims to boil down to one slim volume landmark findings on the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change that have been released since 2018.

A water crisis in the U.S. southwest

Mar 12, 2023 | Articles

To avert catastrophe, the U.S. government will propose historic cuts in water access to the Colorado River. It’s a frantic move to protect a river that provides drinking water, electricity, and food for many millions of people throughout the continent.