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The results are in: Donald Trump will return to the White House in 2025. What could that mean for the planet?
Find out in this ThinkLandscape round-up, where we also assess the damage to the climate ahead of COP29 – the biggest climate event of the year.
The U.S. has elected its next president – and its choice will have major repercussions for the planet. Here’s what we can expect from a second Trump presidency.
In other news, we’ve just returned from the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16) in Cali, Colombia. Here’s what happened at the biggest biodiversity event of 2024, plus some insights on what was discussed:
Next week, we head to Baku, Azerbaijan, on the shrinking Caspian Sea, for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29). Stay tuned for our live coverage!
More than 27 million people are facing hunger across drought-hit Southern Africa. Some countries are enduring daily blackouts, while others are killing wildlife to feed hungry people.
Meanwhile, more than 200 people have died in Spain’s worst floods in decades – a disaster at least partly fueled by the climate crisis.
And for the first time in 130 years, there’s still no snow on top of Japan’s Mount Fuji.
And yet, we’re on track to hit 3.1 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century, and methane emissions are continuing to rise.
What do you do when mining is destroying your home? These islanders wrote to their government – and were promptly thrown in jail.
Many menstrual products are tainted with PFAS ‘forever chemicals.’ Activists are taking one manufacturer to court.
We know that air pollution can give you asthma – even if it often goes undiagnosed. But is it also causing peanut allergies?
In Nepal, hospitals have devised an unusual solution to air pollution: by turning placentas into cooking gas.
Could termites help us solve the climate crisis? Here’s what we’ve learned from the world’s oldest termite mound, which has been standing for 34,000 years.
Unfortunately, the Earth’s land is hardly absorbing any carbon, and global deforestation is still rising.
Wildlife populations have dropped by an average of 73 percent in the last 50 years, while more than one in three tree species are now at risk of extinction.
The EU is handing out billions in agricultural subsidies to billionaires – even as small farmers struggle and its landscapes wither.
Offshore wind is one of our most promising sources of renewable energy. So, why is there so much backlash against it?
Carbon offsets are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition,” says a group of more than 60 top climate scientists.
Last month, Rwanda was the epicenter of a deadly Marburg virus outbreak. Here’s how a small vaccine maker stopped the disease in its tracks.
COP29 host Azerbaijan will ramp up its fossil fuel production over the next decade. Meanwhile, thousands of social media bots are working to boost the country’s climate credentials.
Papua New Guinea is boycotting this year’s climate summit, saying it “will no longer tolerate empty promises and inaction.”
The Paris Agreement will be “crippled” if the U.S. withdraws again under a second Trump presidency, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned.
The U.K. has agreed to hand most of the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius, but many Chagossians aren’t happy with the deal.
As India and Pakistan share the world’s worst air pollution, is it finally time for ‘climate diplomacy’ to save the day?
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