Climate

Deliberations over the wording in the United Nations IPCC report, which provides policymakers with regular scientific assessments on climate change, take time—and the entire project is a painstaking process. The science has to be correct, and the advised actions have to be attainable and fair to all, particularly for those who have been affected the

Enlarge / Is it natural, or is it us? (It's us.)Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images It starts as a reasonable question: If the Earth's climate changed before humans existed, how can we be so sure the current change is due to us and not something natural? To answer that question, we need to understand what caused the

Coffee is important to the economies of coffee producing regions. A study published in PLOS Climate by Doug Richardson at CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia and colleagues suggests that climate change may significantly affect land where coffee is cultivated. Coffee plants are sensitive to climate variability and change...

Although the business community has made progress toward climate goals since the 2015 Paris Agreement, fewer than one-fifth of net-zero targets set by national and subnational governments and only a third of the largest public corporations with net-zero targets actually meet science-aligned criteria. Further, anti-climate lobbying has had a disastrous effect on the planet and

March 10, 2023 1:07 PM Image Credit: kentoh/Shutterstock The climate crisis is painfully evident all around the world. From historic droughts and fires to hurricanes and warming waters, it’s clear that climate change isn’t just a future danger. It’s a present reality problem.  As a recent New York Times headline succinctly explains, “Climate change has

Is climate change or climate policy the real issue? Experts, advocates, and common sense politicians give their thoughts and ideas at the 15th International...

Have you ever heard of the hydrogen rainbow? While hydrogen gas is colorless, the industry sometimes uses colors as shorthand to describe which of the many possible processes was used to make a particular batch. There’s gray, green, and blue hydrogen, along with more vibrant tones like pink—a whole rainbow (kind of). Hydrogen is often

Many of us have heard this phrase: "The climate crisis is a data problem." It’s alluring, the idea that if we could just harness company...