Climate Change

Blog posts, podcasts and videos on climate change, climate emergency climate breakdown climate action and solutions like climate adaptation/mitigation and lowering carbon emissions


Eunice Newton Foote's paper on CO2

Fantastic Women Series: Happy Birthday Eunice Newton Foote

Eunice Newton Foote - She was the first one to observe the effect of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 1856. We know this now as the Greenhouse Effect, the cause of our current global warming.

AI generated image showing the earth as globe surrounded by the blue line of the atmosphere, depicting the ozone layer. A new study says that the Montreal Protocol, designed to protect the ozone layer, is delaying the first appearance of an ice-free Arctic summer, by up to 15 years, depending on future emissions.

The Montreal Protocol is delaying first ice-free Arctic summer

The Montreal Protocol was a global deal to protect the ozone layer and a new study says it is delaying the first ice-free Arctic summer by up to 15 years.

A large table strewn with laptops, tablets and phones being used by people. The shot is from the top so only hands using the devices can be seen.

Podcast Episode 63 l Want to reduce your digital carbon footprint? Here’s how

Want to reduce your digital carbon footprint? Here’s how to do it. Our digital life has an environmental and climate impact. We need to reduce it.

A large table strewn with laptops, tablets and phones being used by people. The shot is from the top so only hands using the devices can be seen.

Want to reduce your digital carbon footprint? Here’s how

Want to reduce your digital carbon footprint? Here's how. There are many things we can do to decrease our digital contribution to climate change.

Shadows of people both adults and children standing in front of a sunset with a projection of a world map in the background. Population Gerd Altamann Pixabay

Earth’s population could start falling after 2050

Earth's population could start falling after 2050 according to a new report that says that it will peak at 9 billion. Equal distribution of resources is key for people to escape extreme poverty.

Sea level rise contributions from the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and maps of projected 2150 CE Antarctic ice sheet surface elevation following different greenhouse gas emission scenarios (SSP1-1.9, strong emission cuts; SSP2-4.5, medium emission cuts; SSP5-8.5, weak emission cuts). Credit: Institute for Basic Science, Jun-Young Park

Global sea levels will rise past 1.8°C planetary warming

A study published in Nature Communications by an international team of scientists shows that an irreversible loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, and a corresponding rapid acceleration...

A large, solid mass of elemental carbon or graphite with the super, greasy/waxy feel and typical, sheet-like form. This splendent, steel-gray specimen is from a very uncommon New Hampshire locality - the old Beneis Farm, Marlborough, Cheshire County. Ex. Bob Whitmore Collection, a noted New England collector and field collector.

Podcast Episode 57 I How is graphite in electric vehicle batteries contributing to climate change?

Graphite is a battery material and we don’t even know how much carbon it emits. It is used in the anode side of electric vehicle batteries and is made in extremely hot furnaces using a huge amount of ...

A slab of natural graphite visible over other graphite slabs. Photo by Martin Turgoose on Unsplash

Graphite is a battery material and we don’t even know how much carbon it emits

Graphite is a battery material and we don't even know how much carbon it emits. It is used in the anode side of electric vehicle batteries and its carbon impacts have been grossly underestimated.

Nuding pyramids and Nuding glacier, Baltoro glacier, Karakoram, Pakistan [image: Alamy]

The glacier ‘marriages’ in Pakistan’s high Himalayas

The glacier ‘marriages’ in Pakistan’s high Himalayas. Locals in Gilgit Baltistan use an ancient technique, reinforced by some modern breakthroughs, for glacier grafting to create persistent sources of...

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