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Extreme weather events widen existing inequalities and traumatise victims while climate anxiety affects mental health Medical students are demanding their schools include the climate crisis as a core component of the curriculum, as the intensifying climate emergency highlights the corresponding health crisis. Hannah Chase, a final year medical student at Oxford said the sense of

Analysis finds focus on stress tests and modelling impact of most extreme scenarios leaves sector blind to real risks Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing The financial world is making the same mistakes regarding climate change as it did with the housing market in the lead-up to the 2008 global financial

Debbie Colson says the chancellor’s short-sighted approach to spending upfront will lead to a far larger global disaster Your article “Treasury blocking green policies key to UK net zero target” (13 August) suggests extreme myopia on the part of Rishi Sunak. This is surprising as he has shown with his coronavirus policies that it is

Publication date: December 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 190 Author(s): Hernan Botero, Andrew P. Barnes, Lisset Perez, David Rios, Julian Ramirez-Villegas

A study suggests the risk of wildfires due to extreme weather will lead to carbon storage capacity decreasing Reaching net zero carbon is a major challenge, and many policymakers are relying in part on planting trees and restoring natural habitats to mop up emissions that are difficult to avoid. For example, the UK Environment Agency

When 33-year-old Kimani Mwaniki, an Irish potato farmer in Elburgon, Nakuru County in Kenya’s Rift Valley, heard about a farmer’s virtual school, he didn’t hesitate to enrol. He was keen to learn how the programme will enable him to get higher crop yields for his market in the capital city Nairobi and elsewhere. For years,

Reading at monitoring station in Syracuse unverified but comes amid heatwave in last few days The highest temperature in European history appears to have been recorded in Italy during a heatwave sweeping the country, with early reports suggesting a high of 48.8C (119.85F). If this is accepted by the World Meteorological Organisation it will break