Trees, graveyards and everyday life are being encroached upon by rising sea levels on the Solomon Islands. Local people are trying to adapt
Tag Archives: climate change
The California drought is officially over, but next could be ‘around the corner’
Governor announces end to the historic drought, yet water conservation is far from finished as state tries to build climate change resilience
US scientists launch world’s biggest solar geoengineering study
Research programme will send aerosol injections into the earth’s upper atmosphere to study the risks and benefits of a future solar tech-fix for climate change
Let there be light: Germans switch on ‘largest artificial sun’
Scientists hope experiment, which can generate temperatures of around 3,500C, will help to develop carbon-neutral fuel
‘Moore’s law’ for carbon would defeat global warming
A plan to halve carbon emissions every decade, while green energy continues to double every five years, provides a simple but rigorous roadmap to tackle climate change, scientists say
Atlantic City and Miami Beach: two takes on tackling the rising waters
Sea level rise is making floods more common and as the New Jersey resort braces for the next Sandy, the well-heeled Florida city is throwing money at the problem
Game of Thrones star in Greenland for Google Street View
GoT’s Jaime Lannister has shown little love for the far north, unlike the man who plays him, Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who has been collecting street view imagery for Google in southern Greenland to highlight the impact of climate change
The lakes of the world are disappearing – in pictures
Climate change and human activity are threatening the existence of some of the world’s largest lakes. These photographs document dramatic changes to the landscape in Bolivia, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union , China and west Africa
Whale hunting in Alaska: Point Hope, the village caught between tradition and climate change
Alaska had its hottest year on record in 2014, and for villagers in Point Hope who have hunted and foraged their meals for generations, climate change threatens their way of life: ‘It’s about more than just meat’
Keep it in the ground
People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change – see here for reasons why
