Sydney is set to follow in the footsteps of London and New York to stake its claim as one of the world’s leading climate action cities with the inaugural Climate Action Week Sydney taking place between May 13-19 2024.
When I last wrote, the Institute had just announced MIT’s Climate Project. Now that it’s underway, I’d like to tell you a bit more about how we came to launch this ambitious new enterprise. In the fall of 2022, as soon as I accepted the president’s job at MIT, several of my oldest friends spontaneously…
The SNP-Green coalition facing risk of collapse and abandoned climate
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In an innovative twist to the classic board game, the latest version of Catan introduces a compelling element: climate change.
Study connects heatwaves and cold snaps to surges in payday lending, keeping people in debt and harming communities of colorTwo competing payday loan stores stand on the corners of an intersection in south Los Angeles. An area of persistent poverty, south LA is also a banking desert where payday lenders fill the gap. Long lines form inside the stores on the first of the month, when rent is due.Guillermina Molina, a 60-year-old retired housekeeper, visits the same Speedy Cash each month. During...
A study by the University of Southampton has found that market forces have provided good food price stability over the past half century, despite extreme weather conditions.
Shafaqna Science- Even if CO2 emissions were drastically cut today, the global economy is already facing a 19% loss in income by 2050 due to climate change, according to a new study. These damages are six times greater than the mitigation costs needed to limit global warming to two degrees,
Duke pledged to take decisive action on climate change. But some worry that without clear goals and authority, the climate commitment will end up a well-intentioned failure.
YouTube is now home to tens of billions of videos, and helped launch the
The small ecosystem in Puerto Rico where the study was conducted
During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team led from Lund University in Sweden has investigated how climate change affects recently burned boreal forests and their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.