Protect coastal, island communities now as seas rise, scientists urge
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Melting of the world’s glaciers and warming of its oceans are fuelling rising seas, fiercer storms, worsening water shortages and other risks that could force millions from their homes or leave them hungrier and poorer, scientists warned on Wednesday. Some of the threat could be averted both by rapidly slashing climate-heating emissions […]
UN flags need to cut meat to curb land use impact on global warming
London/Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Global meat consumption must fall to curb global warming, reduce growing strains on land and water and improve food security, health and biodiversity, a United Nations report on the effects of climate change concluded. Although the report stopped short of explicitly advocating going meat free, it called for big changes to farming and […]
ESSAY: HOW ARE CHRISTIANS TO RESPOND TO THE IPCC SPECIAL REPORT?
THEA ORMEROD, president of the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change, looks at how Christians should respond to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change…
As world warms, ‘half a degree’ will worsen suffering, scientists say
Thomson Reuters Foundation Many more people – besides the world’s poorest – will face sweltering heatwaves, more extreme rainfall, shrinking harvests and worsening water shortages unless unprecedented efforts to slow climate change start now, scientists warned on Monday. Without stepped-up action, efforts to adapt to the coming changes – from farmers switching crops to cities […]