FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 16 | History Defined

Commentary: Failing to act on climate change is robbing future generations of choices

Things could have been so different. In June 1992, the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro created the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Convention on Biological Diversity, launching the formal international mission to bring global warming emissions under control and reduce humanity’s negative impacts on our…

Chicago Tribune · Jul 14, 2022

Anti-green MP Steve Baker considering running for PM

Exclusive: High Wycombe MP says if he won leadership race he would dismantle green policies

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2022

Green hydrogen revolution on way

Human-induced climate change is causing dangerous and widespread environmental disruption and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world faces unavoidable climate hazards over the next two decades. But, with average annual global greenhouse-gas emissions reaching their highest…

Bangkok Post · Jul 5, 2022

Climate change leading to earlier and earlier heatwaves, scientists say

As France grapples with a particularly intense heatwave this weekend, with temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of the country, meteorologists say the increasingly early arrival of heatwaves is directly linked to global warming due to human activities.

France 24 · Jun 18, 2022

There's no such thing as a climate refugee

Billions of people are likely to be displaced by climate change. But calling them ‘climate refugees’ oversimplifies the complex reasons people flee their homes.

360info · Jun 17, 2022

How climate change could be exacerbating the spread of diseases like monkeypox and Japanese encephalitis

A new study predicts the changing climate will provide increased opportunities for the spread of novel viruses.

ABC News · Jun 16, 2022

Is it too late to avoid the worst of the climate crisis?

In what was largely seen as a final warning, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate report cautioned that it's "now or never" if the world wants to prevent an irreversible climate disaster. As global leaders struggle to make meaningful changes, some of the world's most vulnerable nations…

France 24 · Jun 9, 2022

These three young activists are changing the conversation on the climate crisis

Their journeys to activism have been very different, but they have faced similar challenges as young women of colour fighting for climate justice.

ABC News · May 27, 2022

How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate

For hundreds of millions of years, Earth’s climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO₂ levels to their highest in 2 million years – overtaking natural emissions – mostly by burning fossil…

The Conversation · May 25, 2022

Climate change: the IPCC has served its purpose, so do we still need it?

In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its first assessment report on the state of climate change science. The synthesis of the sixth assessment report will be released later this year. But we can guess its messages: we are changing the climate with adverse consequences and we…

The Conversation · May 20, 2022