climate change

How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint on Your Next Flight - Thrillist Carbon offsetting isn’t a perfect solution, but it is an easy way to give back. One of the most pressing issues we’ll face in our lifetime, the whole topic of climate change is extremely doom-and-gloom. That sense of dread and...

A Fifth of Food-Output Growth Has Been Lost to Climate Change - Yahoo Climate change has been holding back food production for decades, with a new study showing that about 21% of growth for agricultural output was lost since the 1960s. That’s equal to losing the last seven years of...

The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World - ProPublica Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia. It was only November, but the chill already cut to the...

In your travels and at home, channel climate-change anxiety into action - Seattle Times In Europe, tourists are wondering why German hotels have no air conditioning in the sweltering summer, why Venice is flooding more than ever and whatever happened to summer skiing in the Alps. The answer is...

Major airlines say they’re acting on climate change. Our research reveals how little they’ve achieved - The Conversation If you’re a traveller who cares about reducing your carbon footprint, are some airlines better to fly with than others? Several of the world’s major airlines have announced...

Is it wrong to be hopeful about climate change? - BBC Real hope for the future of the climate can’t come from admiring the inspirational deeds of others – it has to be earned, writes Diego Arguedas Ortiz. n 2018, a 30-minute documentary was premiered in San José, Costa Rica’s capital and my...

Climate change will make seafood scarcer and more dangerous. It’ll also change the taste of our favorite species - New Food Economy New research shows shrimp can lose their flavor when ocean chemistry shifts. he international panel of experts studying the global impact of climate change...

Jonathan Safran Foer Wants to Save the World — Beginning With Breakfast - Eater In his new book, “We Are the Weather,” the author suggests fighting climate change by going vegan for two meals a day Someone’s got to do something. We’ve got to do something.” Jonathan Safran Foer found himself...

This Is the Best Diet to Save the Planet - Newsweek The vegan diet is often lauded as the most environmentally friend way to eat, but scientists have highlighted that cutting down on animal products can also help to protect the planet against climate change. A worldwide move towards...

Climate change: Big lifestyle changes 'needed to cut emissions' - BBC People must use less transport, eat less red meat and buy fewer clothes if the UK is to virtually halt greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, the government's chief environment scientist has warned. Prof Sir Ian Boyd said the...

Food will be scarce, expensive and less nutritious, U.N. climate report says - Fox 59 Food will become scarcer, grocery prices will spike and crops will lose their nutritional value due to the climate crisis, according to a major report on land use from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental...

The World's Finest Saffron Is in Danger of Disappearing - Saveur Drought and climate change are threatening the livelihood and traditions of Kashmir's saffron-farming families On a cool morning in Pampore, India, the fields have become a purple-dotted canvas. Haji Ghulam Hassan Bhat, 65...

California scientists unravel genetic mysteries of world’s tallest trees - San Francisco Chronicle Scientists have unlocked the genetic codes of California’s most distinguished, longest-lasting residents — coast redwood and giant sequoia trees — in what is a major breakthrough in the quest to...

So many ways – big and small – to capture carbon - The Guardian Readers and heads of environmental organisations respond to a call to rewild on a massive scale George Monbiot (The natural world can help save us from climate chaos, 3 April), Greta Thunberg and other signatories (Letters, 3...

Americans Need to Eat 90% Less Meat for Planet to Survive, Report Says - Global Citizen The average American is on track to eat 222.2 pounds of red meat and chicken this year. Humanity’s growing meat consumption is undermining the planet’s ability to produce food, according to a new report...