by Sarah DeWeerdt | Sep 19, 2017
The remaining global budget for carbon emissions that can keep the planet from warming more than 1.5° C may be larger than previously thought, researchers reported yesterday in Nature Geoscience. Limiting warming to 1.5° C is the “stretch” goal of the 2015 Paris... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Sep 12, 2017
Roughly one-quarter of global warming can be traced to carbon emissions from less than two-dozen companies, according to research published last week in Climatic Change. The analysis reflects an emerging idea that responsibility for climate change lies not just with... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Sep 5, 2017
As of 2016, almost 10% of the global population – 722 million people – lived in megacities, defined as cities with more than 10 million residents each. We usually think of such teeming metropolises as purely human-designed environments: all straight, hard edges of... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Aug 29, 2017
The oil company ExxonMobil has misled the public about climate science over the last several decades, according to a study by Harvard University researchers Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes published last week in Environmental Research Letters. The findings are based... 
by Sarah DeWeerdt | Aug 22, 2017
Throughout history, cites and towns have often been established along the banks of rivers, because these waterways provided a source of drinking water, power, and transport links to other communities. The effects of our settlements on those riverbanks – on terrestrial... 
