This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. These are contradictory times: While global human-development metrics for life expectancy, literacy, and economic development are improving, metrics for carbon-dioxide emissions, global temperature indices, biodiversity, and ocean acidification—essentially any metric…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The United Nations Environment Programme highlights the need for upstream changes to global financial systems in order to direct sufficient capital towards the Sustainable Development Goals.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Indigenous peoples from around the world on Wednesday urged Harvard University to abandon a project to test ways to dim sunlight as a fix for global warming, saying it posed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was one month after Hurricane Iota destroyed his family’s home that 31-year-old Jexis decided to leave his hometown of Choloma, Honduras. The storm arrived after months of joblessness he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year, the oceans were warmer than any time since measurements began over 60 years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. While global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was while working in a UK research lab that Francisca Mutapi first noticed the other scientists were approaching treatment to a disease she’d known since childhood from a totally…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A battle over who is responsible for cleaning up hundreds of oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico is quietly playing out in a bankruptcy court in southern…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rohingya refugees moved to a Bangladesh island fear they will be exposed to terrible conditions during the upcoming monsoon season, and are struggling with “inadequate” health and education facilities, a…
Senior analyst Lucia Retter, is joined by Lieutenant General Richard Nugee, the non-executive director for climate change and sustainability for UK Defence, to discuss a study on the implications of climate change for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giant rivers of moist air that curl off from the tropics are responsible for most of the flooding in the Western United States, and scientists say these atmospheric rivers will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In northern Michigan, across rolling sand dunes and a picturesque village situated on Lake Michigan, it is raining toxic PFAS chemicals. No, really. It is. A team of U.S. and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rising temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and intensity and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events mean investing in climate-resilient infrastructure is critical. However, infrastructure remains far from adequate in many…