Drought-stricken farmers challenge Coalition’s climate change stance in TV ad

“This drought has really hit our family hard,” says Longreach farmer Jody Brown. “Climate change is making the droughts more severe.” Those two sentences are the opening lines to a new advertisement challenging the federal government’s stance on climate change and the drought in Australia’s eastern states. The 30-second ad will begin airing on commercial […]

Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes Worse? Yes, Here’s Why.

Off Tanzania, in one of the world’s richest seas, why is the catch getting smaller?

Fishing boat XTK191, known as Home Boy, returned to Kivukoni fish market in downtown Dar es Salaam at dawn one day last week. The 15 young men on board the old dhow dropped anchor and heaved their catch over the side for others to run it across the beach to where hundreds of traders milled. […]

California’s response to record wildfires: shift to 100% clean energy

In America today, it’s rare to see political leaders respond to a threat with an appropriate evidence-based policy solution. At the national level, more often we see actions that aggravate existing problems or create new ones. California – the country’s most populous and economically powerful state – has been a welcome exception. California has been […]

Europe’s meat and dairy production must halve by 2050, expert warns

Europe’s animal farming sector has exceeded safe bounds for greenhouse gas emissions, nutrient flows and biodiversity loss, and urgently needs to be scaled back, according to a major report. Pressure on livestock farmers is set to intensify this century as global population and income growth raises demand for meat-based products beyond the planet’s capacity to […]

California to launch its ‘own damn satellite’ to track greenhouse gases

California is set to launch a satellite to track greenhouse gases, as former US Secretary of State John Kerry and island nation leaders warned that the world is far off course to avoid the worst effects of rising temperatures. Gov. Jerry Brown announced plans for the satellite on the last day of a climate change […]

Novel Framework to Address Uncertainty in Water Management

IIASA researchers have developed a general decision-making framework to support policy decisions on the management of water resources, which, for the first time, explicitly takes into account the associated uncertainties. Reliable access to clean water is one of the key aspects addressed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In fact, most of the SDGs […]

হাঁস পালনে অভাবমোচন

দেশে এখন কত প্রযুক্তি এসে গেছে। কৃষি বা স্থানীয় ছোট ছোট শিল্পে কত রকমের যন্ত্রপাতি ব্যবহৃত হচ্ছে! এখন প্রাকৃতিক দুর্যোগের আগাম সতর্কতা পাচ্ছে প্রত্যন্ত এলাকার মানুষও। তারপরও হাওর অঞ্চলের কৃষিভিত্তিক মানুষের জীবনযাত্রা এখনো জুয়া খেলার মতো চলছে। হাওরে যত দূর চোখ যায়, শুধু ধান আর ধান—এই দৃশ্য দেখেও সেই ধান গোলায় না ভরা পর্যন্ত চূড়ান্ত […]

Researchers Develop New Approach to Conserving Tree Species

Globally, forest trees are increasingly at risk from habitat destruction, pests and disease, and a changing climate. But the guidelines for effective preservation of a tree species’ genetic diversity and adaptive potential have been limited to simple mathematical equations for crop collections from the 1970s, or best guesses based on intuitions. Globally, forest trees are […]

Wetlands are key for accurate greenhouse gas measurements in the Arctic

The Arctic is rapidly warming, with stronger effects than observed elsewhere in the world. The Arctic regions are particularly important with respect to climate change, as permafrost soils store huge amounts of the Earth’s soil carbon (C). Warming of Arctic soils and thawing of permafrost can have substantial consequences for the global climate, as the […]