Fix the climate or appease the fossil fuel industry – we can’t do both
Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal emits more heat-trapping gas to the atmosphere…
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Britain ended more than 140 years of coal power when it closed its last generator in September. Coal emits more heat-trapping gas to the atmosphere…
Read more →Iron and Coal, a mid-19th century portrait. William Bell Scott How old is the climate crisis? I was born in 1994, when the concentration of…
Read more →Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge We’ve been talking about AI a lot on Decoder lately; it’s unavoidable. But there’s one piece of feedback…
Read more →Planting more mangroves is one way to lock carbon from the atmosphere into the sediment. Platoo Studio/Shutterstock The severity of climate change means we all…
Read more →JuYochi/Shutterstock Climate change is making the symptoms of certain brain conditions worse, our new review has found. Conditions that can worsen as temperature and humidity…
Read more →LONDON — The government’s plans for hitting climate goals have been ruled unlawful in the High Court for a second time. The High Court judgment, published…
Read more →pathdoc/Shutterstock The warnings about the disastrous impact we are having on our planet are becoming more dire. The UN Environment Programme’s most recent emissions gap…
Read more →Image: Hugo Herrera / The Verge The latest numbers are in for how much our planet is projected to heat up this century, and it’s…
Read more →I Wei Huang/Shutterstock Autumn has finally arrived in the UK following an unusually sunny September. The days are growing shorter, the temperature cooler, and the…
Read more →New technology is acting as a weather detective to track dangerous conditions and hopefully prevent negative health consequences, as Australia braces for extreme heat this…
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