Climate stress has millennials rethinking retirement

Facing climate stress, many millennials balance short-term priorities with long-term retirement goals, researchers report.

U. Arizona • futurity
Dec. 30, 2024 ~7 min

What if every pet was vegan? Here’s how much it would help the planet

If every dog ate a vegan diet, it would prevent the equivalent of the UK’s annual CO₂ emissions.

Andrew Knight, Adjunct Professor (Animal Welfare), Murdoch University and Griffith University, Visiting Lecturer, University of Winchester • conversation
Dec. 30, 2024 ~7 min


A gold rush for ‘green finance’ risks changing our relationship to nature

We are turning ever more nature into a product we buy and sell.

Ruth Bookbinder, Research fellow, University of Leeds • conversation
Dec. 23, 2024 ~7 min

Computer models are vital for studying everything from climate change to disease – here’s how AI could make them even better

Techniques like machine learning will give these simulations greater predictive power.

John Woodward, Reader in Computer Science, Loughborough University • conversation
Dec. 23, 2024 ~6 min

What do insects do all winter?

Bugs that buzz and flutter at other times of year are conspicuously absent during winter months.

Anna Brødsgaard Shoshan, PhD Candidate, Zoology Department, Stockholm University • conversation
Dec. 23, 2024 ~7 min

What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire – and what can we learn from it?

Research shows that 536AD was not the worst year to be alive.

Haggai Olshanetsky, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, University of Warsaw • conversation
Dec. 23, 2024 ~5 min

Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world

Our new research identifies four ways these protests are being criminalised and repressed.

Tie Franco Brotto, PhD Candidate, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol • conversation
Dec. 23, 2024 ~7 min

Climate, migration and conflict mix to create ‘deadly’ intense tropical storms like Chido

The ongoing conflict and terrorist violence, coupled with cyclones like Kenneth in 2019, has caused repeated evacuations and worsening living conditions.

Luis Artur, Lecturer and Researcher of Disaster Risk Reduction, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane • conversation
Dec. 20, 2024 ~7 min


Climate change is making plants less nutritious − that could already be hurting animals that are grazers

Rising carbon dioxide levels in the air are making plants grow larger and faster, but diluting their nutritional content. This could threaten the health of herbivores worldwide.

Ellen Welti, Research Ecologist, Great Plains Science Program, Smithsonian Institution • conversation
Dec. 20, 2024 ~9 min

Valencia floods showed why coastal cities should restore their wetlands

Why wetlands are so useful in an increasingly unpredictable climate.

Dhanapal Govindarajulu, Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester • conversation
Dec. 19, 2024 ~5 min

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