Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
The Fens are a food-growing powerhouse, but the landscape only exists thanks to humans holding back the sea.
Primary Results
Mangrove restoration is becoming big business, but benefits don’t always reach local people
Beyond the monetary value of carbon credits sits something more complex: every restoration project involves trade-offs, and somebody carries them.
Why winter cold spells are getting milder
Across the northern hemisphere, cold spells are becoming milder as the temperatures rise, with their intensity decreasing by 0.3°C per decade.
The five corrupt pillars of climate change denial
How to identify and understand different types of denial: scientific, economic, humanitarian, political and crisis.
IPCC report: how politics – not climate change – is responsible for disasters and conflict
Decades of research shows disasters are caused human vulnerabilities rather than the climate itself.
Imagine newsletter: penguins, satellites and pink poo
New satellite methods can track penguin colonies in winter – and can judge their health based on the colour of their guano.
Science can’t settle what should be done about climate change
The sight of speakers known to dispute the scientific evidence supporting climate change being called to speak at a parliamentary select committee on the latest IPCC report last week has raised certain…
Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth
Floods, droughts and extreme heat can disrupt nutrition and healthcare in early life, with consequences that may last for years.
IPCC report shows Stern inflated climate change costs
How much does climate change cost? What will be the impact on our wallets? The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Working Group II has concluded that global warming…
COP24: 12 years from disaster – editors’ guide to what our academic experts say is needed to fight climate change
We may only have 12 years to stop climate change and the landmark Paris Agreement of 2015 seems more in doubt than ever. What can we hope to come out of COP24?
Secondary Results
