Food Security
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Auto & Alternative VehiclesBiodiversity & HabitatCitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationDrive to 1.5Failure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityInternational Agencies & StudiesPost-Carbon Transition
Losing Up to a Million Species Will Create ‘Danger Zone’ for Humanity: UN Commission
The Earth is on track to lose up to a million species, many of them within decades, a rate of extinction that represents a ... -
AfricaBiodiversity & HabitatChinaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFood SecurityIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesPathways to 1.5Post-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingSoil & Natural SequestrationSouth & Central AmericaSub-National GovernmentsUnited States
Soil Health Emerges as Critical Climate Mitigation Tool as ‘Carbon Farming’ Takes Hold
The urgent need to restore the health of the world’s agricultural soils—for the sake of the food supply, and as a critical tool in ... -
Biochar Would Save 810 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
Accelerating the production of biochar ranks #72 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions, with the potential to reduce atmospheric carbon by 810 megatons by ... -
Arctic & AntarcticaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresFailure Is Not An OptionFirst PeoplesFood SecurityIce Loss & Sea Level RiseMethaneSevere Storms & FloodingSoil & Natural Sequestration
Permafrost Loss Could Produce $70 Trillion in Long-Term Costs, and Abrupt Thawing May Make It Worse
Just a week after researchers placed the cost of Arctic ice and permafrost melt as high as US$70 trillion, albeit over a span of ... -
CoalFinance & InvestmentFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & RegulatoryUnited StatesWater
U.S. Supreme Court Backs Fight for Reparations Against Indian Coal Plant’s Funder
In a precedent-setting case that corporate polluters will be watching closely, fishers in India’s westernmost state of Gujarat have taken their plea for reparations ... -
BioenergyFood SecurityGeneral RenewablesOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & ConsumptionWater
Study Traces Options for Cutting Life Cycle Emissions from Plastic
With carbon pollution from every stage of the plastics life cycle on track to grow four-fold by mid-century, a new study in the journal ... -
Climate Change Devastates Honduran Coffee Farms, Drives ‘Desperate’ Northbound Migration
Small-hold coffee farmers from Honduras number increasingly in the caravans of desperate people streaming north out of Central America, as the devastation wrought by ... -
AsiaCanadaDrive to 1.5Drought, Famine & WildfiresEuropeFailure Is Not An OptionFood SecurityHydroIce Loss & Sea Level RiseTravel, Leisure & RecreationUnited StatesWater
Two New Studies Trace Massive Glacier Loss Linked to Climate Change
North America accounts for more than half of the 369 billion tons of snow and ice the world’s glaciers are losing each year, and ... -
CitiesClimate Impacts & AdaptationFood SecurityHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseInternational Agencies & StudiesOceans
UN Agency Backs Futuristic Floating Cities as Hedge Against Sea Level Rise
A research coalition backed by a United Nations agency will look at the possibility of building floating cities to provide a futuristic form of ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBitumen BubbleCanadaEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesFood SecurityHot SpotsLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail Transport
Long-Delayed Emergency Warning for Steelhead Trout Has Implications for Trans Mountain Pipeline
The federal government has spent more than year considering an emergency warning from scientists that pits endangered steelhead trout, and their importance to the ... -
Climate-Induced Warming Harms Food Chains by Leaving Insects ‘No Place to Hide’
Overheating is just as hazardous to insects in shaded woodlands as it is in open grasslands, meaning they receive no respite from climate-induced warming, ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementDrought, Famine & WildfiresEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsFood SecurityPost-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingSub-National Governments
Meili: Saskatchewan Wants Climate Action, Not ‘All-or-Nothing Political Games’
Saskatchewan will be asking the wrong question on climate change until it looks beyond the carbon price debate and considers how to build a ... -
Biodiversity & HabitatBuildingsCitiesDemand & EfficiencyDrawdownEuropeFood SecurityHealth & SafetyHeat & TemperatureSoil & Natural SequestrationUnited States
Green Roofs Would Save 770 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
Green roofs rank #73 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. By the year 2050, an increase in green and cool roofs could save 0.77 ...
