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
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
The Lancet: Extreme heat threatens ‘systemic failure’ of hospitals
The recent impact of climate change on heat-related diseases should be seen as a harbinger of future dangers posed to human health, a landmark report... Read More
Limiting warming to 2C would prevent ‘worldwide increases’ in heat-related deaths
Restricting global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels would prevent large increases in temperature-related deaths across much of the globe, a... Read More
Analysis: ‘Global’ warming varies greatly depending where you live
As part of the Paris Agreement on climate change, the international community committed in 2015 to limit rising global temperatures to “well below"... Read More
Guest post: Exceeding 1.5C of global warming will hit poorest the hardest
Dr Andrew King is a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne and Luke Harrington is a climate scientist at the University of Oxford ... Read More
Low-lying atolls could become 'uninhabitable' earlier than thought
Low-lying coral islands across the tropical oceans could become “uninhabitable” in the coming decades because of the combined impacts of sea level... Read More
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