Water Weather 21 June 2018 By Anna Taylor Three ways cities can adapt to climate Cape Town’s Day Zero experience – the prospect of dam levels dropping dangerously low, taps running dry and water rations being distributed from public collection points – speaks powerfully to the urgency and complexity of climate...
Weather Politics 20 June 2018 By Mark Maslin Climate change didn't trigger East African conflicts It seems obvious that climate change has – and will – cause human conflict and the mass movement of people. Look at the effects of the droughts in Syria, Darfur and Ethiopia. The former UN...
Water Weather 19 June 2018 By Thomas Slater and Andrew Shepherd Antarctica has lost 3 trillion tonnes of ice It can be easy to overlook the monstrous scale of the Antarctic ice sheet. Ice, thick enough in many places to bury mountains, covers a continent roughly the size of the US and Mexico combined....
Weather 16 June 2018 By Shingirai Nangombe Africa needs rise in global temps kept to 1.5°C At the end of the century, if carbon emissions aren’t reduced faster, the global temperature is likely to be 2.6°C to 4.8°C higher than it was in 1986–2005. Africa could be even hotter than that,...
Weather 16 June 2018 By Aida Cuní Sanchez Baobab trees are dying in Africa Nine of 13 of Africa’s oldest and largest baobab trees have died in the past decade, it has been reported. These trees, aged between 1,100 and 2,500 years, appear to be victims of climate change....
