The world is headed for a climate-induced economic collapse – and we’re not ready to deal with the fallout.
Those are the stark findings of a study published a few weeks ago. More on that and much more in this month’s digest.
Feeling disempowered by events in the world? Here are a few things you can do to support nature at home.
A recent study found that most countries have now ‘decoupled’ economic growth from emissions. Unfortunately, that may be missing the point.
From carbon capture to geoengineering, there are countless new techno-fixes being touted for the climate. Direct air capture is yet another.
You’ve heard about regenerative agriculture, but what about regenerative grazing? Here’s a little primer.
In the Philippines, Indigenous activists are pushing a local law to protect their sacred cave from overtourism, while these Nigerian students are developing their own climate solutions.
We also survey young Indians about climate leadership and hear from two young activists about their less than ideal experiences at a global biodiversity conference.
The U.S.–Israeli war on Iran has sent global oil and gas prices soaring – which will soon have knock-on effects on the cost of living worldwide.
Pakistan is running out of water as its 13,000 glaciers melt. Now, Himalayan communities are turning to an ancestral technique – glacier grafting – to keep their scarce supplies alive.
A group of Chagos Islanders have landed on the archipelago in an attempt to block the U.K. from handing itover to Mauritius, while campaigners are suing the European Commission over lithium mining in Portugal.
Is meat giving us cancer? A new study finds that vegetarians are far less likely to get five different cancer types.
Microwave meals, meanwhile, can contain hundreds of thousands of micro- and nano-plasticparticles.
The nature crisis will soon start driving businesses to extinction. A new IPBES report calls out the folly of fixating on economic growth and offers tips to adapt and survive.
More than half of the world’s coral reefs were bleached between 2014 and 2017. The current series of heatwaves, ongoing since 2023, have been even more damaging.
The Baltic Sea is one of the world’s largest ‘dead zones.’ What went wrong, and can it still be saved?
Living near a volcano means constantly cleaning up the ash. But as farmers in Sicily have discovered, it can be a boon for agriculture, too.
Snow leopards are some of the world’s most elusive big cats. In recent decades, they’ve been bouncing back – partly thanks to the former Soviet Union.
We still don’t know just how damaging the climate crisis will be. Scientists say it’s time for a global risk assessment to work out our next steps.
The Winter Olympics could be among the first casualties, with the International Olympic Committee now mulling shifting the date of future Games to January.
Icebergs are notoriously hard to track once they break up into smaller pieces. A new AI tool could change that.
The Pacific Ocean is heating up so quickly that it’s making El Niño more difficult to detect – so much so that scientists have had to rethink how to measure it.
Could the climate crash the global economy? Researchers say the economic models used by governments and investors still aren’t properly accounting for cascading climate risks.
AI can be useful for climate action and conservation – but not the sort of AI you’re probably thinking of.
These five oil giants have made USD 467 billion in profits since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, which sent oil and gas prices soaring.
Greenpeace USA has been ordered to pay USD 345 million in damages to the owner of the Dakota Access pipeline, a sum that could force the advocacy group into bankruptcy.
Sustainable mining may be a pipe dream, but what if we could just extract rare earth elements from garbage in a lab?
China’s carbon emissions may have already peaked: they’ve now been “flat or falling” for nearly two years.
In a particularly destructive month even by Donald Trump’s standards, the U.S. has, among other things:
The EU, for its part, will scale back corporate sustainability rules and is also facing calls from member states to weaken or even pause its Emissions Trading System.
In its latest round of aid cuts, the U.K. plans to reduce climate finance to the Global South by 20 percent over the next five years.
Brazil and India have signed a deal to cooperate on critical minerals and rare earths. Fiji, Tuvalu and Palau will host key climate meetings in September and October ahead of COP31.
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