Greenland glacier

Greenland ice sheet more sensitive to climate change than previously predicted

A new study reveals how responsive the Greenland ice sheet is to climate change – more so than models predict. Methane has been detected at retreating glacier margins worldwide, but this is the first study to investigate the margin of an entire ice sheet. 
Tuvalu

Flying to the End of the World to Save It: The Climate Paradox of a Climate Conference in Tuvalu

,
The Santa Marta conference on phasing out fossil fuels has just wrapped up, and by most accounts, it was a meaningful step forward. For the first time, 57 countries — representing more than half of global GDP — gathered explicitly to discuss ending the fossil fuel era. Colombia presented the world's first national roadmap for full phaseout. A new international science panel was launched. Political momentum is building. At least, that is the talk. The follow-up location is nothing short of an attack on the climate: Tuvalu.
electric car ford mustang

Electric cars emit more CO2 than traditional cars at production

Electric and hybrid cars create more carbon emissions during their production than standard vehicles. That reduces their short term climate advantage.
dehuminization

The Debate We Need: could Epistocracy prevent Ecological Collapse?

There's something unusual about a political debate that begins with both participants agreeing that the situation is dire. Yet that's exactly where two prominent voices in the environmental collapse discourse find themselves — and what makes their disagreement so worth paying attention to.
pablo picasso guernica fragment

A new world war, or a war against the world?

The current war in the Middle East appears to be an escalation of an attack on all those values that has been underway for years. And that is nothing less than a war against the world.
fossil emissions and ccs

32 emitters produce half of world CO2

A new update of the Carbon Majors data makes one thing unmistakably clear: global fossil fuel emissions are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a very small group of producers, most of them state controlled.
we dont have time

Climate change painfully absent in Davos

The word climate change was not mentioned once during a week of high-level talks at the World Economic Forum in Davos. That is according to We Don't Have Time, a Swedish organisation focused on sustainability and climate change. It therefore organised its own presentation but was not allowed to do so within the event. So the presentation was given from a pile of snow in front of the door.
forest lungs of the earth

The lungs of the Earth are emitting CO2, no longer absorbing it

The world’s tropical rainforests, once known as the lungs of the Earth, are losing their ability to store carbon. New satellite data show that vast forest regions are now emitting more CO₂ than they absorb.