In Taiwan’s Waters, a Hunt for Tiny, Wriggling ‘Gold’
The hunters waded into the water after dark, their headlamps beaming as they tossed nets into the crashing waves over and over again. All night, they shook muck from the nets, sorting out their prizes: wriggling, transparent baby eels, each…
Nations approve key UN science report on climate change – ABC News
Governments gave their blessing Sunday to a major new U.N. report on climate change, after approval was held up by a battle between rich and developing countries over emissions targets and financial aid to vulnerable nations ByFRANK JORDANS Associated Press…
John Kerry sees U.S, China climate talks stall – Axios
Photo illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images HOUSTON — U.S. climate envoy John Kerry tells Axios his work with China has stalled amid wider tensions between the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters. Driving the news: “Regrettably,…
‘I warned the FBI about this guy Osama bin Laden’: the people who predicted disasters, from the 2008 crash to Covid
‘Thinking I could have stopped it is something I have to deal with’ Ali Soufan on 9/11 In October 2000, Ali Soufan, a 29-year-old Lebanese-American FBI agent, was driving across Brooklyn Bridge when his pager beeped. More than 7,000 miles…
Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas? | Rebecca Solnit
If fossil fuel use and impact had suddenly appeared overnight, their catastrophic poisonousness and destructiveness would be obvious. But they have so incrementally become part of everyday life nearly everywhere on Earth that those impacts are largely accepted or ignored…
Could volcanos hold key to climate crisis? Scientists are spilt – Al Jazeera English
Taipei, Taiwan – At opposite ends of Southeast Asia, researchers Pornampai Narenpitak and Heri Kuswanto are both working on the same problem: Is it possible to mimic the cooling effects of volcanic eruptions to halt global warming? Using computer modelling…
Norway Is Planning to Profit From Climate Change – Foreign Policy
Analysis Norway Is Planning to Profit From Climate Change The oil-rich Nordic country is laying the groundwork to become a renewable energy superpower. By Brett Simpson, a Fulbright Fellow based in Berlin, Germany. German Economy Minister and Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck,…
What 2023 could mean for Ukraine, China, conflict zones, and climate change – Grid
One year ago, even some sophisticated readers — and savvy editors — couldn’t have identified Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a photo or found Luhansk and Donetsk on a map. It’s doubtful they’d have known what “HIMARS” or “ATACMS” were,…
Taiwan c.bank to incorporate climate change risks into forecasting – Reuters
TAIPEI, Dec 30 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s central bank said on Friday it would begin incorporating climate change risks into its modelling and forecasts for inflation and economic growth and adapt monetary policy to promote sustainable development. Taiwan said last year…
Warfare and Global Warming – New Security Beat
The world has plenty of reasons to avoid conflict already. Yet attendees at the recently-concluded COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt were presented with another compelling argument: Warfare is bad for global warming. So much so, in fact, that…
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