The overshoot myth
You can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
Earth has just ended a 13-month streak of record heat – here’s what to expect next
"Meeting climate targets is not compatible with fully exploiting existing fossil-fuel infrastructure, yet new investment in oil rigs and gas fields continues."
If you want Americans to pay attention to climate change, just call it climate change
"we found no evidence that the alternative terms increased people’s sense of urgency, willingness to support climate-friendly policies or willingness to act"
Climate change is linked to worsening brain diseases – new study
"The global scale of those with neurological and psychiatric conditions that could be adversely affected by climate change is huge."
Plastic is climate change in a bottle – so let’s put a cap on it
"..when Rwanda and Peru proposed cutting the amount of plastic produced worldwide by 40% over the next 15 years, the UN talks faltered."
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
"Predictions that the nuclear exit would leave Germany forced to use more coal and facing rising prices and supply problems, meanwhile, have not transpired."
Three reasons to support environmental defenders
"tackling protesters and not oil producers is the democratic equivalent of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic"
Oil bosses call phasing out fossil fuels a ‘fantasy’ – but an international agreement is plausible
Oil companies say stopping fossil fuels is a dream, but countries are already uniting to make it a reality.
Only 57 producers are responsible for 80% of all fossil fuel and cement CO emissions since 2016 – new report
"Achieving net zero by reducing the emissions of a relatively small number of companies will be much easier than persuading 8 billion people to take collective action on climate."
The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway
The proposal to declare the Anthropocene epoch starting in 1952 was rejected, but the ongoing impact of human societies on the planet is still undeniable and important to understand.
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