Eating less meat is essential to fight climate change
Chatham House’s new report confirms the significant environmental impact of the livestock industry. Yet governments are doing nothing.
China and the US make a deal on the reduction of CO2 emissions
China and United States, the two countries that emit the largest amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere worldwide reached an agreement to reduce CO2 emissions and fight climate change. They declared this during a joint press release of Chinese president Xi Jinping and US president Barack Obama held on 12th November, at the end
Leonardo DiCaprio has been named U.N. Messenger of Peace for climate
The US actor Leonardo DiCaprio, 39, has been named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, with the aim to raise global awareness on climate change. The decision has been announced on Tuesday by the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The first official appointment as messenger is the 23rd of September, when DiCaprio will speak during the
Australian photographer shows us the “scared scientists”
Data, graphs, figures, statistics. When scientists are asked to tell what they think about the ongoing climate change, their answers can’t exclude overviews of researches and diagrams showing percentages. Nick Bowers, Australian photographer, wanted to leave aside “cold” data, in order to catch scientists’ emotions, thoughts and concerns through a black-and-white photography series.
The video of a family of polar bears looking for sea ice
Polar bears need sea ice to survive. To find it, they can swim hundreds of kilometres. However, over the last few years, this research has become harder and harder due to melting ice, one of the effects of climate change due to global warming. In the video called Polar bears – The quest for sea ice a
If butterflies’ and dragonflies’ colours fade, blame global warming
According to a new study the colour of butterflies and dragonflies depends on climate. Global warming is changing the way they are distributed in favour of lighter-coloured ones.
Climate: here is what will disappear from the United States
According to a report published by the Union of Concerned Scientists, more than two dozen historical sites in the U.S. are likely to disappear due to severe natural disasters including floods, drought and fires caused by climate change. From the Statue of Liberty to Jamestown, the first English settlement in Virginia, from Boston’s historic districts to
Climate: the date of the end of the world has been revealed
Scientists say it over and over again. In order to combat climate change and keep the average temperature increase below 2°C, CO2 emissions have to significantly be reduced. We have to do it right now, because the more we wait the more drastic and expensive the emissions reduction will be, therefore difficult to be realised.
Climate and olive oil: here is what is going to happen
For the civilizations developed along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, olive trees have played a central role through history. All along, the beauty and richness of its fruits have been inspiring a number of legends that celebrate its divine origin. Zeus’ sacred wood was a grove of olive trees with whose twigs were created
Say farewell to the Statue of Liberty (and to a fifth of UNESCO sites)
Who doesn’t remember the disaster film by Roland Emmerich, The day after tomorrow (2004), in which New York is submerged by water and ice because of crazy weather? The fantastic images of the big screen may be replaced in a few decades by real pictures. Actually, according to a joint study of the University of Innsbruck