Tag: Climate Change

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at one of the strongest storms to ever hit Japan, Israeli raids shifting focus in the West Bank, and Germany enacting tougher ...

On the sidelines of July’s NATO summit in Washington, a new industrial alliance quietly came to life. The leaders of the United States, Canada, and Finland announced the Icebreaker Collaboration ...

The use of solar power and batteries to charge the American electrical grid has exploded. The US Energy Information Agency released a report on the growth of the US power ...

A British engineer has come up with a bizarre but genuinely intriguing idea to help cool down homes during the heat waves still hitting Europe and the United Kingdom. Instead ...

Billions of crabs have been vanishing from the Bering Sea near Alaska since 2022. While it might seem easy to blame the vanishing on overfishing, scientists say this wasn’t actually ...

The Atlantic Ocean is cooling at an exponential rate, and nobody is sure why. It’s been more than a year of record-high global sea temperatures, including being close to the ...

Explaining to the uninitiated exactly who Vinay Gupta is, and what he does, isn’t easy.  The last time I interviewed him for VICE, nine years ago, the article was headlined ...

Africa, whose carbon emissions are negligible, is a victim of climate change but cannot stop it. Indeed, to get the continent’s citizens out of poverty, African economies will have to ...

Over the last 10 months, the world’s attention has been focused on Israel and the Gaza Strip. The war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, with Hamas’s attack on Israel ...

It is clear to everyone that decarbonization is happening far too slowly. Even the best-performing high-income countries are not reducing their emissions fast enough to achieve the Paris Agreement objectives—not ...