With the increasing losses in agriculture globally such as land degradation due to erosion (by wind or water), urbanisation, loss of crop produce due to bad weather or their perishable nature and loss of livestock because of disease and epidemics, it has become...
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Time for climate journalism that meets the severity and scale of the climate crisis
Author Marie McInerny explores whether the media adequately reflects the scale and severity of the emergency facing the globe. This story originally appeared on Croakey...
A Slippery Slope: Could Climate Change Lead to More Landslides?
Author Jane Palmer explores whether the effects of climate change, including warming temperatures and changing rainfall patterns, could link to an increase in the number and frequency of landslides in mountainous areas. This story originally appeared on Eos...
A Promising Development for Detecting Ocean Productivity
Author Terri Cook explores the encouraging advancements that have been made in detecting the effects of climate change on ocean productivity. This story originally appeared in Eos...
The World Is Burning, but the Political Press Insists on its Horserace
Authors Mark Hertsgaard and Andrew McCormick explore the media's disappointing reporting on the discussion of climate change in last week's US presidential debate. This story originally appeared in Covering Climate Now...
Deadly bacteria lurk in coastal waters. Climate change increases the risks.
Authors Elisabeth Gawthrop and Dean Russell explore the little-known and unanticipated dangers of water-borne, deadly bacteria, and how climate change is only making the situation worse. This story originally appeared in The Centre for Public Integrity...
Displacement and climate denial: counting the cost of Australia’s bushfire crisis
Author Amy Coopes explores the wide-ranging effects of the bushfire crisis in Australia - from displacement, especially of Indigenous communities, to the loss of cultural sites, to social issues, to financial costs. Climate change policy and risk reduction is crucial....
‘POOL’ and the concept of Circular Fashion – How does a Spotify for Clothes work in Berlin?
Fashion and sustainability - we have come to know the two as the antithesis of each other. Again and again, images of landfills full to bursting with heaps of clothes are branded across newspapers, bearing equally depressing headlines and the crushing sentiment that...
A second Trump term would be ‘game over’ for the climate, says top scientist
Author Mark Hertsgaard explores the views of Michael Mann - one of the most eminent climate scientists in the world - on the potential environmental devastation of another term with Trump in office. This story originally appeared in The Guardian...
World’s youth rallies against climate change
Author Kate Abnett explores the first youth protests since the coronavirus crisis which happened all over the world to demand urgent action against climate change This story originally appeared in Reuters and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a...
Google, Microsoft, IBM are using AI to predict climate outcomes — with promising results
While current climate models are often inaccurate and have large outcome ranges, artificial intelligence (AI) once again shows itself to be a potential solution. Companies like Google and IBM are already directly working on applying the technology — and...
How Covid-19 has led to a wave of innovation in India
India: how coronavirus sparked a wave of innovation Sreevas Sahasranamam, University of Strathclyde Entrepreneurs and innovators across India have responded quickly to the challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A host of new innovations, some emerging from...