Top news of the week: 07.04.2021.
Climate
NASA measures direct evidence humans are causing climate change
NASA has finally closed a gap in the litany of evidence connecting humans to climate change.
Big Meat and Dairy Companies Have Spent Millions Lobbying Against Climate Action, a New Study Finds
Top U.S. meat and dairy companies, along with livestock and agricultural lobbying groups, have spent millions campaigning against climate action and sowing doubt about the links between ...
To See How Biden's Infrastructure Plan Will Address Climate Change, Look at the Details
White House officials charged with leading the Administration’s climate policy say the infrastructure plan's strategy to prepare the country for the effects of a warming planet is more than ...
UK to face significant financial losses in carbon-intensive traded goods if it fails to keep pace with new EU carbon policy
A robust carbon pricing framework is needed to support decarbonisation of industry and avoid important UK exports being penalised by the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism, according ...
Once climate change deniers, the agriculture industry positions itself as part of the solution
Riding a wave of shifting public opinion about the reality of climate change, the industry is positioning as part of the climate solution.
How climate change is stunting farm production
Since 1960 about 21 percent of global agriculture production, including livestock, tree farming, and traditional crops such as corn and soybeans, has been negatively impacted by climate ...
Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story.
The untold history of how people survived the past 2,000 years.
Research to innovation: Solutions to the climate crisis in Africa
African Priorities for COP26 Despite its low contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change. Already, the region is experiencing ...