How global inequalities hinder climate action

Climate breakdown and inequality are deeply interwoven, with each crisis exacerbates the other; according to a new report.

Susan Ann Samuel, PhD Candidate, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds • conversation
Jan. 23, 2025 ~6 min

Trump returns: nine things to expect for the climate

Academics glean grim portents – and some continuities with supposedly pro-climate presidents of the past.

Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition • conversation
Jan. 23, 2025 ~9 min


The UK’s international commitments on climate and nature could soon become law – and better protect our environment

Our best chance of stabilising our climate and adapting to the changes ahead lies in protecting and actively restoring nature.

Nathalie Pettorelli, Professor, Conservation Biology, Zoological Society of London • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~8 min

Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet – using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ecosystems.

Stephen Pyne, Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~10 min

Extreme heat, flooding, wildfires – Colorado’s formerly incarcerated people on the hazards they faced behind bars

More than 65% of formerly incarcerated people reported experiencing climate-related hazards, according to survey results.

Shideh Dashti, Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~8 min

How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issue

The climate policy pendulum is swinging back again with Trump in office. Money, lobbying and talking about red vs. blue states all play a role in the political and public divide.

Joe Árvai, Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability | Professor of Psychology, Biological Sciences, and Environmental Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
Jan. 22, 2025 ~12 min

The rise of firefighters-for-hire exposes the inequality of climate-driven disasters

Private firefighters in affluent LA neighbourhoods are a sign of an increasingly privatised response to disasters.

Doug Specht, Reader in Cultural Geography and Communication, University of Westminster • conversation
Jan. 21, 2025 ~7 min

LA fires risk reinforcing the false idea that we’re all in this together

What celebrities and the super-rich losing their homes reveals about climate change injustice.

Andrea Rigon, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, and, UCL • conversation
Jan. 20, 2025 ~5 min


We built an AI model that analysed millions of images of retreating glaciers – what it found is alarming

Scientists have tracked decades of glacier retreat in the fast-warming Arctic islands of Svalbard.

Konrad Heidler, Chair of Data Science in Earth Observation, Technical University of Munich • conversation
Jan. 17, 2025 ~7 min

How America courted increasingly destructive wildfires − and what that means for protecting homes today

In many parts of the US, Americans must learn to live with fire. That means careful decisions on where homes are built and what’s around them, and allowing more low-risk fires to burn.

Justin Angle, Professor of Marketing, University of Montana • conversation
Jan. 16, 2025 ~11 min

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