On climate change, Britons are shaky on facts, strong on action – study
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation From the amount of plastic recyled to how record-breaking recent temperatures are, the British public’s grasp of the facts about climate change remain shaky, researchers said Thursday. In a survey looking at public misperceptions about the environment, researchers at King’s College London found two-thirds of people surveyed agreed with the British Parliament […]
“Only you know” if we did enough, says memorial to Iceland’s lost glacier
RomeThomson Reuters Foundation Iceland’s first glacier to be lost to rising temperatures is to be marked with a memorial carrying a grim warning about the impact of climate change if the world fails to act on time. “In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path,” reads a plaque […]
CIVIL RIGHTS: AS CLIMATE PROTESTS MOUNT, GOVERNMENTS URGED TO RESPECT CIVIL RIGHTS
MEGAN ROWLING, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, speaks with Philip Alston, an Australian academic and the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights…