Our correspondent talks to her predecessor about how global heating went from a ‘slow burn’ to the biggest story of allDevastating floods across Europe, killer heatwaves in Canada, wildfires across the US. Extreme weather has hit the headlines across t…
What if it’s too late to save our planet without geoengineering? | Moira Donegan
Climate engineering sounds scary. But is coming whether we like it or not, this scientist saysThe realities of climate change are front-page news every day. Temperature records are being smashed. Wildfires are raging. There is no sign of things going b…
Europe’s July floods: So rare and extreme, they’re hard to study
One river basin might have seen a 1-in-15,000-year event.
A Scottish Green-SNP alliance could transform the country, and the climate | Caroline Lucas
It’s not enough for Greens to have bold ideas, to deliver them we need to be in power. This deal could be a turning pointCaroline Lucas is the Green MP for Brighton PavilionNo one gets into politics to be in opposition for ever, especially people in a …
Australia is ‘more and more isolated’ on climate, former EU trade commissioner says
Cecilia Malmström warned climate change is an urgent global crisis and Australia, as a big economy and big emitter, needs to do moreGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe former European Union trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmström, ha…
「深宇宙を旅する技術」をつくり、ついでに地球の問題を解決する：21歳の化学者が二酸化炭素回収技術に見る夢
化学者で発明家の村木風海は、二酸化炭素の回収とその有効活用によって、地球の課題と宇宙探査の課題を同時に解決しようと考えている。19歳で一般社団法人炭素回収技術研究機構（CRRA）を創設し、CO2回収マシーン「ひやっしー」や空気から燃料を製造する技術の開発、有人火星探査の研究などを進める彼に、脱炭素技術の先に描く未来について訊いた。
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‘How is it sustainable if only 1% can afford your food?’: the man on a quest to change farming
Chris Newman, founder of Virginia-based Sylvanaqua Farms, on why feeding people needs to be at the heart of sustainable farmingChris Newman, 38, and his wife, Annie, 35, always planned to retire with a farm. But after a health scare in 2013, the couple…
From 1m trees to a tree graveyard: how Dubai’s conservation plans went awry
Hundreds of thousands of trees have died after costly real estate projects thwarted attempts to halt desertificationIt all began so beautifully, with the ruler of Dubai photographed planting the first tree of his ambitious environmental initiative, as …
Here in British Columbia, we have spent the summer running from cruel wildfires | Mary Stockdale
Blazes are destroying whole communities. The Canadian government must act now to tackle this existential threatSmall fires crackle into life on the hills around us at the slightest provocation. Creeks swell with flash floods, as upland snow melts at re…
海面上昇の危機には防潮堤の建設では対抗できない？ 新たなモデルが示す「自然を基盤とした解決策」の重要性
気候変動による海面上昇に対抗すべく、世界各地で防潮堤が築かれている。だが防潮堤を築いて浸水を防いだとしても、水は近隣の土地へと流れて浸水を引き起こしてしまう──。そんな新たなモデルが、このほど公表された。論文で提案されている解決策は、防潮堤だけに頼らずに「自然を基盤とした解決策」を模索することだ。
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