Feb 13, 2024 | Articles
Generative agents will change our society in weird, wonderful, and worrying ways. Can philosophy help us get a grip on them?
Feb 8, 2024 | News
For the first time, global warming has exceeded 1.5C across an entire year, according to the EU’s climate service. This breach doesn’t break the Paris agreement, but it does bring the world closer to doing so in the long-term.
Feb 1, 2024 | Articles
The Dominican Republic’s forests are being cut down for grazing land – and it’s also having a serious effect on the water supply. Is planting new trees a natural solution to the crisis?
Jan 25, 2024 | Opinion
The most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of tomorrow.
Jan 16, 2024 | Opinion
Our brave new world of plastic, wire, and concrete promises liberation. Instead, its cult of efficiency controls and kills.
Jan 9, 2024 | News
Last year was about 1.48C warmer than the long-term average before humans started burning large amounts of fossil fuels. Almost every day since July has seen a new global air temperature high for the time of year, BBC analysis shows.
Jan 9, 2024 | Articles
Beijing set the goal of being the global AI leader by 2030, but that was before the emergence of ChatGPT.
Jan 2, 2024 | Opinion
In an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world is in reach.
Jan 1, 2024 | Articles
Two new coalitions of scientists, lawyers, philosophers, and artists have joined the burgeoning global campaign for ecosystems and other species to have legal rights and even political representation.
Dec 27, 2023 | News
From skyrocketing temperatures to Germany phasing out nuclear and a historic global deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels, Deutsche Welle (DW) looks back at the environmental highs and lows of the last 12 months.
Dec 18, 2023 | Articles
Looking back to this time last year in Montreal where governments signed a once-in-a-decade deal, it is worth remembering that the world has never met a UN target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems.
Dec 13, 2023 | News
Despite the urging of more than 130 countries and scientists and civil society groups, the agreement did not include an explicit commitment to phase out or even phase down fossil fuels. Instead, it called on countries to transition away from fossil fuels.
Dec 9, 2023 | News
The EU Parliament and the member states have agreed on a draft of their new AI Act. So what exactly will the landmark regulations entail?
Dec 8, 2023 | Articles
The Guardian asks five climate experts to explain the key differences between 1.5C and 2C.
Nov 29, 2023 | News
Big meat companies and lobby groups are planning a large presence at the Cop28 climate conference, equipped with a communications plan to get a pro-meat message heard by policymakers throughout the summit.
Nov 27, 2023 | Articles
Demand for palm oil is fuelling corruption in Honduras.
