Tag: climate change

• China Wants Food. Brazil Pays the Price.

  February 17, 2020

  This article is a collaboration between The Atlantic and the Pulitzer Center. The Amazon tends to evoke an Edenic vision—of a mysterious and impenetrable land, pregnant with beasts from jaguars… more ›

• Financial Times

  February 14, 2020

  An intelligent take on global lifestyle, arts and culture Insightful reads Interviews & reviews The FT Crossword Travel, houses, entertainment & style https://www.ft.com/content/48b6d0f6-499f-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441 more ›

• This apartment design predicts a dystopian future of hunting and gathering for food and using canoes to get around — see inside

  February 9, 2020

  “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore” shows a vision of domestic life 50 years out, when rising ocean levels have flooded cities, and people are forced to grow their own foods and… more ›

• 💭🦠 Six ways coronavirus will change our world

  February 9, 2020

  The pandemic virus, 2019-nCoV, is testing many of the assumptions of a highly interconnected, modern, globalised world. This 120nm virus, small to us, large by viral standards, is shining a… more ›

• Nightmares on wax: the environmental impact of the vinyl revival

  January 29, 2020

  Inside a US vinyl pressing plant – its owners have asked that I do not give its location – dozens of hydraulic machines run all day and night. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/28/vinyl-record-revival-environmental-impact-music-industry-streaming more ›

• In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how

  January 23, 2020

  What is human civilisation if not the result of all the stories we’ve been told? Centuries of evidence have shown that storytelling can change the course of history. Radical imagination,… more ›

• BlackRock C.E.O. Larry Fink: Climate Crisis Will Reshape Finance

  January 14, 2020

  In his influential annual letter to chief executives, Mr. Fink said his firm would avoid investments in companies that “present a high sustainability-related risk.” Laurence D. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/14/business/dealbook/larry-fink-blackrock-climate-change.html more ›

• California enters uncharted territory: Massive blackouts, historically dangerous winds

  October 26, 2019

  By , Joe Mozingo, Rong-Gong Lin II, Maura Dolan SAN FRANCISCO — Northern California braced for a weekend in uncharted territory as Pacific Gas & Electric Co. prepared to shut… more ›

• Can Egypt and Ethiopia resolve their dispute over water?

  October 26, 2019

  Water is often said to be the source of life, and it is increasingly becoming the source of conflict in various parts of the world. The building of the largest… more ›

• Revealed: the 20 firms behind a third of all carbon emissions

  October 9, 2019

  The Guardian today reveals the 20 fossil fuel companies whose relentless exploitation of the world’s oil, gas and coal reserves can be directly linked to more than one-third of all… more ›