Why investing in climate-vulnerable countries makes good business sense

Investing in climate adaptation is one of the smartest financial opportunities of our time

Ali Serim, Advisor for the Centre of Geopolitics of Global Change, ODI Global • conversation
July 2, 2025 ~7 min

The atmosphere is getting thirstier and it’s making droughts worse – new study

A new study shows that rising ‘atmospheric thirst’ is responsible for about 40% of the increase in drought severity over the last four decades.

Solomon Gebrechorkos, Reserach Fellow in Climate Change Attribution, University of Oxford • conversation
June 4, 2025 ~6 min


The psychology of climate traps and how to avoid them

Climate shocks trigger emotional distress, which limits long-term thinking and can lead to environmentally harmful choices.

Lucrezia Nava, Assistant Professor, Climate Psychology, Carbon Dioxide Removals, Business School, University of Exeter • conversation
May 21, 2025 ~7 min

As US ramps up fossil fuels, communities will have to adapt to the consequences − yet climate adaptation funding is on the chopping block

The administration wants to cut funding for programs that help communities adapt to wildfire risk, sea-level rise and invasive species, among many other risks.

Meade Krosby, Senior Scientist for the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington • conversation
May 12, 2025 ~9 min

As US doubles down on fossil fuels, communities will have to adapt to the consequences − yet climate adaptation funding is on the chopping block

The administration wants to cut funding for programs that help communities adapt to wildfire risk, sea-level rise and invasive species, among many other risks.

Meade Krosby, Senior Scientist for the Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington • conversation
May 12, 2025 ~9 min

How we discovered specific brain cells that enable intelligent behaviour

How do animals and humans come up with novel ideas? It may be down to some very specific cells.

Mohamady El-Gaby, Postdoctoral Neuroscientist, University of Oxford • conversation
May 1, 2025 ~6 min

Bees, fish and plants show how climate change’s accelerating pace is disrupting nature in 2 key ways

Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.

Courtney McGinnis, Professor of Biology, Medical Sciences and Environmental Sciences, Quinnipiac University • conversation
April 30, 2025 ~7 min

How California can rebuild safer, more resilient cities after wildfires without pricing out workers

It starts with better building policies that recognize future risks, but there are many other important steps.

Nichole Wissman, Assistant Professor of Management, University of San Diego • conversation
Feb. 18, 2025 ~10 min


Some viruses prefer mosquitoes to humans, but people get sick anyway − a virologist and entomologist explain why

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between people, however, it faces extra challenges.

Pilar Pérez Romero, Associate Professor of Virology, University of Notre Dame • conversation
Feb. 4, 2025 ~9 min

Cop29 climate finance deal: why poor countries are so angry

The costs of an unequal global system are not reflected in the new finance goal.

Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, DPhil (PhD) Candidate in International Development, University of Oxford • conversation
Nov. 25, 2024 ~7 min

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