Research showing that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is breaking up lends an hallucinatory air to our political and business discourses, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. We carry on as though the historical world will last forever, as if our
Read More →By Edward Struzik, Queen’s University, Ontario This article was originally published by The Conversation. In what is becoming an unfortunately common occurrence, the town of Jasper, Alta., has been ravaged by a wildfire of unprecedented scale. Crews report witnessing “300- to
The fate of a tree planted at poet Emily Dickinson’s home raises questions about whether gardeners can — or should — play a role in helping plant species migrate in the face of rising temperatures and swiftly changing botanical zones. by Janet
CLIVE HAMILTONJuly, 2015 Among the great crimes of the 20th century the most enduring will surely prove to be human disruption of the Earth’s climate. The effects of human-induced climate change are apparent now and will become severe this century, but the
A Dutch court recently ruled that greenhouse gas reduction is a state obligation. Here’s what that could mean for the rest of the world. By Sophia V. Schweitzer, Ensia July, 2015 On June 24, 2015, a court in The Hague ordered the Dutch
By Chris Wood, Natural Security columnist This isn’t the Bastille of the Climate Revolution. Not even close. What organizers are billing as “the largest climate march in history this weekend,” hopes to draw as many as 150,000 people to New York City to
New research published today in the journal Science suggests, surprisingly, that the answer to the biggest climate change mystery of the past decade or so may be found in the deep Atlantic Ocean, and not as suspected in the Pacific. Noted Science: Why did
By Richard Allan, University of Reading, The ConversationAugust 21, 2014 There seem to have been a dozen or so explanations for why the Earth’s surface has warmed at a slower rate over the past 15 years compared to earlier decades. This is perhaps not
Research showing that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is breaking up lends an hallucinatory air to our political and business discourses, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. We carry on as though the historical world will last forever, as if our biggest problem
Pledges by “have” countries to help the “have-nots” are almost all talk and no action, new research shows. Since 2003, when a Washington-based think tank started an index to measure development policies by wealthier countries, “the scores for aid, migration, trade and
By Chris Wood Some time back a friend of mine and I were sharing a coffee in downtown Vancouver and worrying at the problem of journalism before the apocalypse. Not the Biblical one; the biological one. It’s hard to look most of