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Public engagement on climate change is a vital concern for both science and society. Despite more people engaging with climate change science today, there remains a high-level contestation in the public sphere regarding scientific credibility and identifying information needs, interests, and concerns of the non-technical public. In this paper, we present our response to these

Ministers instead urged to focus on reducing flights and halting airport expansion to cut carbon emissions The UK government’s “jet zero” plan to eliminate carbon emissions from aviation relies on unproven or nonexistent technology and “sustainable” fuel, and is likely to result in ministers missing their legally binding emissions targets, according to a report. The

The climate crisis is at the forefront of Guardian Australia readers’ concerns, and we put their questions to local candidates Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Guardian Australia’s full federal election coverage Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing We asked Guardian Australia readers about the local issues

Publication date: August 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 198 Author(s): Pia Nilsson, Riccardo Bommarco, Helena Hansson, Brian Kuns, Henning Schaak

To understand future land use change, and related ecological and social impacts, scenario planning has become increasingly popular. We demonstrate an approach for translating scenario narratives into spatially explicit land use maps. Starting from four previously developed scenarios of land use change in southwestern Ethiopia we developed a baseline land use map, and rules for

Poseidon Water sought to turn seawater into drinking water but activists said plan would devastate ecosystem on Pacific coast A California coastal panel on Thursday rejected a longstanding proposal to build a $1.4bn seawater desalination plant to turn Pacific Ocean water into drinking water as the state grapples with persistent drought that is expected to

Two more days of high winds and very dry conditions expected as fire warnings issued across much of the western US A raging New Mexico wildfire was headed toward a ski resort and the 1,000-year-old community of Taos on Wednesday as howling winds continue to push the erratic flames forward. Officials have issued warnings for