The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C – Science Magazine
The need to stabilize global climate Climate change will be the greatest threat to humanity and global ecosystems in the coming years, and there is a pressing need to understand and communicate the impacts of warming, across the perspectives of…
Why Russia is ambivalent about global warming – The Economist
FIRST CAME fires that turned the Siberian skies into a wall of solid smoke stretching for thousands of kilometres. Then came a drought that sucked the Lena river nearly dry, leaving boats marooned in the mud. It has been an…
If the world ran on sun, it wouldn’t fight over oil | Bill McKibben
We are sadly accustomed by now to the idea that our reliance on oil and gas causes random but predictable outbreaks of flood, firestorm and drought. The weekend’s news from the Gulf is a grim reminder that depending on oil…
Sesame yields stable in drought conditions
(American Society of Agronomy) Research shows adding sesame to cotton-sorghum crop rotations is possible in west Texas
Harnessing tomato jumping genes could help speed-breed drought-resistant crops
Once dismissed as ‘junk DNA’ that served no purpose, a family of ‘jumping genes’ found in tomatoes has the potential to accelerate crop breeding for traits such as improved drought resistance.
DROUGHT: Zambia’s fragile economy faces pummeling from climate change
When Zambian President Edgar Lungu delivered his annual speech to open parliament on Friday he mentioned climate change 44 times as he tried to deflect some blame for the nation’s growing economic troubles.
Climate change is already here. You have one last chance to stop it – Los Angeles Times
The world is drifting steadily toward a climate catastrophe. For many of us, that’s been clear for a few years or maybe a decade or even a few decades. But others have known that a reckoning was coming for much…
Why Russia is ambivalent about climate change – The Economist
The first in a series of articles on the impact of global warming on the world FIRST CAME fires that turned the Siberian skies into a wall of solid smoke stretching for thousands of kilometres. Then came a drought that…
NSW and Queensland bushfires: brief respite ahead of hot and windy week
Firefighters in New South Wales are taking advantage of cooler conditions to undertake backburning operations, with hotter and windier conditions expected next week. Fire conditions eased again over the weekend in northern NSW, where residents had been told it was…
Don’t politicise the bushfires? The alternative is to sit back while more severe events happen | Greg Jericho
This week I had a mole checked on my leg and my doctor quickly agreed it should be removed. While I contemplated the anxiety of what that could mean I did not sit there wondering which day it was that…
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