Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world's poorest countries?

That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.

Bethany Tietjen, Research fellow in climate policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University • conversation
Nov. 2, 2022 ~8 min

Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world's poorest countries, and what does compensation look like?

That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial. Here are some of the ideas being floated.

Bethany Tietjen, Research fellow in climate policy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University • conversation
Nov. 2, 2022 ~8 min


Four ways to reduce your household energy use – proven by research

Europe is facing the prospect of an acute energy crisis – how does research suggest households can reduce their energy use?

Aurore Julien, Lecturer in Environment, Energy and Resources, UCL • conversation
Oct. 10, 2022 ~7 min

Cooling conundrum: HFCs were the 'safer' replacement for another damaging chemical in refrigerators and air conditioners – with a treaty now phasing them out, what's next?

The U.S. Senate voted to ratify the Kigali Amendment, agreeing to phase down climate-warming HFCs. Some alternatives exist.

Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University • conversation
Sept. 22, 2022 ~8 min

US Senate ratifies treaty to phase down climate-warming HFCs from refrigerators and air conditioners – but what will replace them this time?

HFCs had been the ‘safer’ replacement for another damaging chemical. Now they’re on the way out under the Kigali Amendment.

Scott Denning, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University • conversation
Sept. 22, 2022 ~8 min

Looking back on America’s summer of heat, floods and climate change: Welcome to the new abnormal

Millions of people around the world suffered through long-lasting heat waves and deadly flash flooding in the summer of 2022. A climate scientist explains the rising risks.

Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton • conversation
Sept. 21, 2022 ~9 min

America’s summer of heat, floods and climate change

Millions of people around the world suffered through long-lasting heat waves and deadly flash flooding in the summer of 2022. A climate scientist explains the rising risks.

Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton • conversation
Sept. 21, 2022 ~9 min

Looking back at America’s summer of heat, floods and climate change: Welcome to the new abnormal

Millions of people around the world suffered through long-lasting heat waves and deadly flash flooding in the summer of 2022. An environmental scientist explains the rising risks.

Shuang-Ye Wu, Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton • conversation
Sept. 21, 2022 ~9 min


2022's supercharged summer of climate extremes: How global warming and La Niña fueled disasters on top of disasters

A climate scientist explains the forces behind the summer’s extreme downpours and dangerous heat waves, and why new locations will be at risk in the coming year.

Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliated Faculty, University of Auckland • conversation
Sept. 15, 2022 ~11 min

Intense heat and flooding are wreaking havoc on power and water systems as climate change batters America’s aging infrastructure

A heat wave that pushed California’s power grid to the limit, and the water system failure in Jackson, Mississippi, are just two examples.

Paul Chinowsky, Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Sept. 7, 2022 ~8 min

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