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Aurora Energy Research calculates investment would have to quadruple capacity Boris Johnson’s bold new vision for offshore wind to power every home in the UK by 2030 would require almost £50bn in investment and the equivalent of one turbine to be installed every weekday for the whole of the next decade. The huge investment, calculated

Climate crisis and logging is leading to shift from canopy rainforest to open grassland Much of the Amazon could be on the verge of losing its distinct nature and switching from a closed canopy rainforest to an open savannah with far fewer trees as a result of the climate crisis, researchers have warned. Rainforests are

Pandemic stress can be relieved by cultivating greenery, which makes people happier and more relaxed The essayist Jia Tolentino wrote last year about people being in the grip of “houseplant fever”; ads for houseplants called “Ken” or “Pippa” pop up on the internet; a Zoom call isn’t complete without a plant somewhere in evidence; and

The question of who breathes, and who suffocates, is a question of who deserves to live. It’s a question that will only become more urgent as the climate crisis develops This is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020 The medical term is acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The question framed the existence of a human-made climate crisis as something that is for some Americans still debatable The long-awaited climate question in last night’s presidential debate broke a 20-year silent streak from moderators on the crisis – thrusting it into prime time but also revealing just how stuck in the past much of

Publication date: January 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 179 Author(s): Thierry Bréchet, Pierre-André Jouvet