Media reaction: Australia’s bushfires and climate change
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Ebola epidemics will ‘increase with greenhouse gas concentrations’, study finds
The threat of Ebola outbreaks across Africa will increase as levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere rise, according to new research. ... Read More
Cutting air pollution would not cause ‘near-term spike’ in global warming
A reduction in air pollution brought about by shifting away from fossil fuels would not inadvertently cause a short-term acceleration of global... Read More
Guest post: 10 climate-related events that cost the US $10bn in health impacts
Dr Vijay Limaye is a climate change and health science fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Prof Wendy Max is a professor of... Read More
Limiting warming to 1.5C could prevent ‘thousands’ of heat deaths in US cities
Holding global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, rather than 2C or 3C, could help prevent thousands of deaths in US cities during... Read More
Japan’s deadly 2018 heatwave ‘could not have happened without climate change’
The record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave in Japan in which more than 1,000 people died “could not have happened without human-induced global... Read More
Eating more offal could help cut meat emissions by ‘14%’
Choosing more meat by-products, such as liver, sweetbreads and tripe, could help to reduce livestock emissions by as much as 14%, according to a new... Read More
Mosquito-borne diseases could reach extra ‘one billion people’ as climate warms
Nearly one billion people could face “their first exposure” to a host of mosquito-borne diseases by 2080 under extreme global warming, a study... Read More
Climate change's impact on groundwater could leave 'environmental timebomb'
Over the next 100 years, the full impact that climate change is having on groundwater resources will become apparent in half of the world's aquifers,... Read More
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