News that a Russian polar survey vessel found a vast oil field off the coast of the British Antarctic Territory has caused significant alarm
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by Kent Peacock
The idea that 2⁰C is a safe guardrail against global heating was a guesstimate by an economist almost fifty years ago, and it had a sketchy scientific basis even at that time. In November 2023, a consortium comprised of many of the top glaciologists and climate scientists in the world published a report entitled “The State of the Cryosphere 2023—Two Degrees is Too High.” (See also the review on Carbon Brief.) The only hope of preventing catastrophic sea-level rise,
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In Gainesville, Florida, children are on the front lines of the hazards long ignored by local and state government officials.
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Amorina Kingdon’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Sing Like Fish.
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An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar … and mull over survival.
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Each winter the surface of the sea freezes around Antarctica, over a vast area, mostly to a depth of about one metre. But this is starting to change. Last year, the sea ice reached an unprecedentedly low maximum extent of only 17 million square kilometres. Why aren’t we talking about sea ice? Perhaps it’s because Continue reading »
What is it going to take, asks climate activist Violet Coco, to stop the death machine, to save humanity and the living world? We first need to find the engine, the beating heart of this global materialist-consumerist-industrial civilisation. Jared Diamond observed, in Collapse, that some past civilisations’ greatest accomplishments came just as they began to Continue reading »
The people and companies behind the controversial hydrogen lobby winning tens of millions in funding - including one key player also making huge donations to Conservatives
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Big old trees are few in number but store lots of carbon. Loopholes found in Victoria’s ban on native tree logging. Great Barrier Reef bleaches for fifth time in eight years. Which trees hold the most carbon? The somewhat complicated figure below illustrates a very important point: the few, older, larger trees in primary forests Continue reading »