Tag: global warming

• 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 ›

• 💭🦠 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 ›

• Global Risks

  January 18, 2020

  The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global,… more ›

• The hard truths of climate change — by the numbers

  September 22, 2019

  Bruno Rodriguez is only 18, but he has seen enough in his time on Earth to know that he must to do something for the planet. Inspired by the student… more ›

• Iceland bids farewell to first glacier lost to climate change

  August 18, 2019

  With poetry, moments of silence and speeches, officials and activists in Iceland have bade goodbye to the country’s first glacier lost to climate change. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/iceland-bids-farewell-glacier-lost-climate-change-190818162956810.html more ›

• Our changing climate and the road ahead

  June 2, 2019

  Following a recent members-only briefing with inventor Bill Gross on how our sustainable future will be powered by renewable energy and innovations in energy storage, I was curious to delve… more ›

• The Secret of Eternal Growth

  November 4, 2018

  The Secret of Eternal Growth It is an article of faith for the anti-capitalist, anti-trade left that endless economic growth is impossible on a finite planet. The sooner it can… more ›

• Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide, a global…

  March 3, 2018

  “Cyanobacteria turn carbon dioxide, a global warming gas, into carbohydrates and other carbon-containing polymers, which sequester the carbon so that they’re no longer global warming gases. They turn it into… more ›

• People don’t want to give up their SUVs and their…

  February 28, 2018

  “People don’t want to give up their SUVs and their steak meals. It would be better to talk about a convenient solution, whether or not that’s the real solution or… more ›

• The heat and the death toll are rising in India….

  May 30, 2015

  The heat and the death toll are rising in India. Is this a glimpse of Earth’s future? Roads have twisted in the heat. Hospitals are overwhelmed by thousands of dehydrated… more ›