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The guide to Cop21: 10 things you need to know
The United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris next November draws closer. To get started, here are ten quick and easy information to help people to understand Cop21: the challenges, the key actors and the role citizens
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What is fossil fuel divestment and why does it matter?
Climate change can be tackled using a very simple idea – divestment. It means taking your money away from companies involved in extracting fossil fuels. Here, Guardian journalist and US author Bill McKibben explains where the idea came from; why
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Shell abandons contentious Arctic exploration after poor results
Royal Dutch Shell has abandoned a contentious Arctic drilling campaign off the coast of Alaska and is preparing to take billions of dollars in writedowns after its exploration efforts failed to make a significant discovery. The collapse in oil prices
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If all the ice melted
National Geographic has produced several maps showing the world as the world’s coastlines are now, with only one difference: all the ice on land has melted and drained into the sea, raising it 216 feet and creating new shorelines for
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A present we can’t unwrap
In only 150 years or so, we will have burned all fossil fuel on the planet, if carbon emissions keep rising like last year. Over time all ice on Earth will melt and cities like New York will be commited
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VW scandal caused nearly 1m tonnes of extra pollution, analysis shows
Volkswagen’s rigging of emissions tests for 11m cars means they may be responsible for nearly 1m tonnes of air pollution every year, roughly the same as the UK’s combined emissions for all power stations, vehicles, industry and agriculture, a Guardian
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Climate change and the seas
Climate change is warming the oceans, causing acidification of marine environments, and changing rainfall patterns. This combination of factors often exacerbates of other human pressures on the seas, leading to biodiversity loss in the oceans. Source: European Environment Agency Date:
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Exxon’s own research confirmed fossil fuels’ role in global warming decades ago
At a meeting in Exxon Corporation’s headquarters, a senior company scientist named James F. Black addressed an audience of powerful oilmen. Speaking without a text as he flipped through detailed slides, Black delivered a sobering message: carbon dioxide from the
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Emissions are putting species in lethal danger
Global warming is going to be very bad for the boreal forests of Siberia and Canada, calamitous for the coral reefs of the tropics and the cold deep waters – and lethal for the lizards of North America. New research
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Climate change: a risk assessment
We know that climate change is a problem, but how big a problem is it? We have to answer this question before we can make a good decision about how much effort to put into dealing with it. A new
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