The worst climate future is less likely, but the best one is slipping away, scientists say

Both the old best and worst case future scenarios in the fight against climate change are being jettisoned by the world’s top ...
Council on Foreign Relations

The Climate Threat

Climate change poses a major geopolitical and economic threat, reshaping coastlines, opening the Arctic, driving migration, ...

Worst-case global warming projection cut by 1°C as cheap solar and wind slash emissions

Cheap renewables are lowering predicted 2100 temperatures – but warming could still be catastrophic. View on euronews ...

What the new best- and worst-case scenarios for the climate mean for Earth

The United Nations recently updated the best and worst-case scenarios for Earth, but the most likely scenario is still too ...
THE WEEK

The Earth is getting darker

We’re going dark. The Earth is reflecting less light than it used to, especially the Northern Hemisphere. While climate change is to blame, the reverse is also true: the planet being darker — and ...

Move over, dystopia. Sci-fi's thrutopia genre shows a path for humans to survive — and thrive

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at new visions of the future in books and movies that have moved ...
Science Focus on MSN

Something 'unprecedented' is now happening to Earth's rotation, scientists say

Climate change is slowing Earth's spin – and there's nothing quite like it in 3.6 million years ...
The Conversation

Behind every COP is a global data project that predicts Earth’s future. Here’s how it works

Over the past week we’ve witnessed the many political discussions that go with the territory of a COP – or, more verbosely, the “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...

UK should set maximum working temperature rules, advisers say

Successive governments have failed to prepare the UK for extreme heat, the climate watchdog says.