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Businesses pledge climate change action at New York summit

...flooding, droughts, storms and heatwaves as average global temperatures rise to new records, sea ice melts in the Arctic and sea levels rise. The second "One Planet" summit took place nearly three yea...

27 Sep 2018

Businesses pledge climate change action at New York summit

News / Food & Agriculture

Beijing’s food vision: quality and quantity

...flooding and the El Niño effect, but mainly down to arable land loss. Urbanisation and industrialisation bit into China’s arable land for 11 consecutive years from 1997, forcing the government to set ...

17 Jan 2020

Beijing’s food vision: quality and quantity

News / Carbon & Climate

Where will you be when the sea rises?

...flooded, and Denver has replaced New York as the centre of culture and finance. Lower Manhattan is known as “SuperVenice,” and some of the flooded buildings have become hangouts for struggling artists...

9 Nov 2018

Where will you be when the sea rises?

Opinion / Food & Agriculture

Bots on the ground: How tech can help us beat hunger

...floods, quakes or acts of war—drones tell us at a glance how the ground has shifted or where uprooted communities are settling. In the digital space, bots interact with individuals in need, offering n...

25 Jan 2019

Bots on the ground: How tech can help us beat hunger

News / Carbon & Climate

Arctic sea ice loss affects the jet stream

...flood plain towards the sea. In effect, the new study introduces a new piece to the climate puzzle: the response of the ozone layer and its role in the play of winds around the planet. The pay-off cou...

7 Jun 2019

Arctic sea ice loss affects the jet stream

News / Carbon & Climate

As climate risks grow, Pakistani Kashmir boosts emergency plans

...flooding, Abbasi said. Sajjad Hashmi, a resident there, said river embankments destroyed in the flood have not yet been replaced. "The river swept away the settlement on both its banks, so a protectio...

17 May 2018

As climate risks grow, Pakistani Kashmir boosts emergency plans

News / Carbon & Climate

Developing Asia’s coal demand helped cancel out rich-world emissions cuts last year

...flood major cities around the world today.

19 Feb 2020

Developing Asia’s coal demand helped cancel out rich-world emissions cuts last year

Opinion / Lifestyle

Yes, it's still up to you to do something about climate change

...flood.” The upshot is that our small acts absolutely can make a difference in unexpected and possibly powerful ways. Our individual choices join with others’ choices to disrupt the flow of destructive...

9 Dec 2019

Yes, it's still up to you to do something about climate change

News / Policy & Finance

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

...floods and storms more often due to climate change. Air pollution poll issue in cities Of the 20 cities in the world with the worst air quality, 15 are in India. Though this does not resonate in conve...

17 Apr 2019

Green promises for India’s polls, but no fresh idea

The women of Tongaradha village in Bangladesh

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions

...flooding—every year the river bursts its banks. Climate change means we face droughts followed by heavy rainfall, which makes the flooding worse and many of the villagers live in poverty. It is a cons...

18 Oct 2018

The power of rural women to reduce global food insecurity and cut emissions

News / Carbon & Climate

State of the climate: 2020 ties as warmest year on record

With all the official climate data now in, the world’s surface temperatures in 2020 have been confirmed as effectively tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record. In this article, Carbon Brief expl...

18 Jan 2021

State of the climate: 2020 ties as warmest year on record

News / Cities

In Malaysia, an island is drowning in its own development

...floods,” she said. “The flood situation is bound to worsen if climate change brings more rain and more intense rainfall.” Five days later it got worse. Much worse. On Nov. 4, and for the next two days...

27 Jul 2018

In Malaysia, an island is drowning in its own development

News / Food & Agriculture

Beyond vegan burgers: next-generation protein could come from air, methane, volcanic springs

...flooding store shelves as highly processed and high in sodium, and Harvard scientists recently questioned their role in a healthy diet. Others such as the Center for Consumer Freedom, which is backed ...

8 Nov 2019

Beyond vegan burgers: next-generation protein could come from air, methane, volcanic springs

News / Waste

Dumping plastic waste in Asia found destroying crops and health

...floods into the next un-regulated destination," said Kate Lin, a Hong Kong based campaigner with Greenpeace East Asia. "It's a predatory system, but it's also increasingly inefficient," she said. "Eac...

23 Apr 2019

Dumping plastic waste in Asia found destroying crops and health

Opinion / Lifestyle

Should the United Nations pay more attention to population growth?

...floods, droughts, and other disasters. There are now 7.7 billion people on Earth. The UN forecasts that this figure will rise to 11 billion by 2100 (and that assumes steady fertility declines in many ...

11 Sep 2019

Should the United Nations pay more attention to population growth?

News / Food & Agriculture

At '5 minutes to midnight', rights group calls time on climate change

...floods and wildfires. If not quickly tackled, scientists say, global warming is likely to bring large-scale food and water shortages and force more people to migrate, while exacerbating problems such ...

6 Sep 2018

At '5 minutes to midnight', rights group calls time on climate change

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News / Cities

The coolest sustainability innovations of 2019

...flood-prone part of Mexico in December. The 50 3D-printed houses slated to go up in Tabasco are designed to replace the homes that residents living in extreme poverty built themselves, out of whatever...

24 Dec 2019

The coolest sustainability innovations of 2019

Opinion / Water

We rely on water for everything we need. Why don't we manage it that way?

...Floods from Kerala to North Carolina claimed lives, devastated communities, and damaged property. 2019 brings its own challenges, with a 90 per cent chance of an El Niño event likely to produce more ...

31 Jan 2019

We rely on water for everything we need. Why don't we manage it that way?

News / Food & Agriculture

How 'future-fit' crops can protect the environment and provide for the future

...floods will be more common, Scott Poynton, who founded Tropical Forest Trust (now called the Earthworm Foundation) and led it for 17 years until 2015, told Eco-Business. The non-profit organisation ai...

15 Jan 2020

How 'future-fit' crops can protect the environment and provide for the future

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Preparing for disaster pays by saving lives, cutting losses

...flood protection by using information from climate assessments across all of the country’s 28 coastal provinces. Vietnam’s vulnerability was brought into stark relief in November last year when floods...

26 Jun 2018

Preparing for disaster pays by saving lives, cutting losses

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