So, she and a group of her colleagues developed a new course, called Climate Resilience, which they offered for the first time at several UC campuses last spring. The goal is to turn students’ distress about the climate into collective action. Alexander signed up for the class and became a teaching assistant. The course offers … Read more
Hellenic Red Cross workers distribute bottles of water to visitors outside the Acropolis in Athens on July 13, 2023, as Greece hits high temperatures. — AFP PARIS: As countries across the world reel from the disastrous effects of climate change, European Union’s climate monitor Copernicus has revealed concerning details about the temperature record of September … Read more
Lenders remain cautious about backing risky climate projects. But blended finance deals are helping to open up opportunities in areas like renewable energy. Finding solutions to an ever-expanding climate crisis is a global dilemma, but especially in Africa. Despite contributing just 4% to global greenhouse gas emissions, the continent is disproportionately impacted by global warming. … Read more
A drone view shows houses submerged in floodwaters following heavy rainfall, at a village in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, China April 22, 2024. — Reuters Nations remain in deadlock over a crucial pact on climate aid, with divisions over who pays and how much, threatening chances of a deal being landed at next month’s United Nations … Read more
Homebuyers increasingly worried about how natural disasters could affect their properties and budgets will soon get a new tool to help gauge the risk. Home search site Zillow announced last week that it will soon include data on potential climate risks in every one of its for-sale listings in the U.S. Prospective buyers will be … Read more
But just what is “climate literacy”? What are the ABCs, the grammar and vocabulary, of climate change? The U.N. and other leading global organizations have identified education at all levels and across disciplines as a key strategy for fighting the climate crisis. The world is going through a historically rapid transition to clean energy and … Read more
This conversation is part of a larger lesson about developing technologies that reduce planet-heating pollution. The lesson was created by Kravitz, an assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Indiana University; his colleague Paul Goddard; and Kirstin Milks, DeWayne Murphy’s science teacher at Bloomington High School South in Bloomington, Ind. With heat waves and … Read more
This article is part of the US-China Dynamics series, edited by Muqtedar Khan, Jiwon Nam and Amara Galileo. In August 2021, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared a “code red” for humanity in the face of human induced climate change (UN News Global perspective Human stories, 2021). Considering how many countries are affected by … Read more