climate change
Not only does a changing climate have an impact on weather, oceans and air quality, but new research shows it also has an effect on our planet’s topography.
In a recent...
In most people's minds, the treeless landscape of the tundra is usually associated with Arctic countries somewhere in the northern hemisphere, but, in fact, you can also come across the tundra in the Czech Republic, that is in the Giant Mountains in the north-east of the country. Just...
In 2011, former West Virginia United States Sen. Robert C. Byrd said, “To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our heads in the sand.”
A year later, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said, “To those who say climate risk is a far off problem, I can tell you...
New research from Food Tank, CARE International, and the Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) program showcases ways forward in cultivating equality in the food system.
Climate change threatens to put hundreds of millions people – mostly women and...
Rising temperatures are melting the Sierra Nevada snowpack
The three-day Sustainable Mountain Development Summit–IV, which concluded here on Friday, urged the Centre to consider evolving a mechanism to pay the hilly states for critical ecosystem services provided to the rest of the country.
The summit was organised by the Sustainable...
Making predictions about climate variability often means looking to the past to find trends. Now paleoclimate researchers from the University of Missouri have found clues in exposed bedrock alongside an Alabama highway that could help forecast climate variability. In their study, the...
A controversy erupted on the projected speed of glacial melt in the Himalayas after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) erroneously quoted non-peer reviewed study in 2009 stating Himalayan glaciers were likely to disappear altogether by 2035. They later admitted it as...
One day in mid-July, Nazim brought a truckload of clothes and food to his home in Barsem, a village in the Pamir Mountains of east Tajikistan, in preparation for his wedding later in the summer.
The following afternoon, on July 16, a flash flood sent mud and debris tearing...
The first five video lectures of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on “Climate change: a question of justice?” are now online! Have a look! The course is open to all, free of charge and comes with no obligations. Over the next eight weeks, there will be a total of 34 short video...
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