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Climate Change
A new wildfire insurance model rewards resilience in climate-stricken California
On the California insurance market—battered by wildfires that have slashed coverage and driven up costs—a new wildfire insurance model has just emerged. The twist? Premiums and deductibles…
Editorial Team•4 April 2025

Climate Change
SStronger climate policies could boost global…
Climate action impact on GDP: ambitious policies today mean +3% by 2050…
Editorial Team•28 March 2025

Climate Change
36 companies behind half of global…
The Carbon Majors report by InfluenceMap outlines the corporate giants most responsible…
Editorial Team•26 March 2025

Climate Change
Planetary Boundaries: How to Make the Future Fair as Well as Safe
Integrating equity into the historical concept of Planetary Boundaries—this is the goal of a groundbreaking study…
Editorial Team•12 September 2024

Climate Change
Global Warming: Summer 2024 is the Hottest on Record
With August, we now have 13 months exceeding 1.5°C over the last 14 months. From January…
Editorial Team•6 September 2024

Climate Change
Cost of the climate change in Africa already nears 9% of GDP
Extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent and intense, along with the need to adapt…
Editorial Team•3 September 2024

Climate Change
Realistic Global Capacity for CO2 Capture and Storage: New Study Reveals Limits
A study published in Nature Communications provides an estimate of the global maximum capacity for CO2…
Editorial Team•2 September 2024

Climate Change
Forest ecosystems and climate change
Is it possible to protect forest ecosystems from the effects of climate change? A study has…
Editorial Team•30 August 2024

Climate Change
Why is the mortality rate related to temperature in Europe expected to…
A new study from the JRC examines the effects of climate change on temperature-related morbidity and…
Editorial Team•26 August 2024

Climate Change
Record temperature for the Mediterranean with an average daily climb of 30…
On 15 August a record average temperature for the Mediterranean Sea of 28.9°C was recorded, higher…
Editorial Team•22 August 2024

Environment
The greatest danger to the Amazon forest is not deforestation
A PNAS study provides the first accurate estimate of the specific impact of the various anthropological…
Editorial Team•20 August 2024

Climate Change
Financing a research programme to safeguard the health of oceans and corals
Protecting corals and the health of the oceans is the goal of the Big Ideas for…
Editorial Team•19 August 2024

Climate Change
July pushes 2024 to new global warming record
Data from the European satellite system Copernicus set the global warming for January-July 2024 at +1,58…
Editorial Team•9 August 2024

Environment
Extreme heat deaths: 175 000 deaths per year in Europe
Europe is warming up twice as fast as the rest of the world. It alone accounts…
Editorial Team•8 August 2024

Environment
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024: we consume 1.75 Planets per year
Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2024. Global ecological debt has been stable for a decade. But…