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IPCC’s landmark report will be most comprehensive assessment yet as governments prepare for pivotal UN talks in November The fires, floods and extreme weather seen around the world in recent months are just a foretaste of what can be expected if global heating takes hold, scientists say, as the world’s leading authority on climate change

Publication date: November 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 189 Author(s): Jing Xu

Cop26 meeting is last chance, says Alok Sharma as he backs UK’s plan for new oil and gas fields Government censured for gaffe after gaffe in run-up to Cop26 The world will soon face “catastrophe” from climate breakdown if urgent action is not taken, the British president of vital UN climate talks has warned. Alok

Research on the nonmaterial aspects of human-nature connections has grown steadily in recent years, yet efforts to understand nonmaterial connections between individuals and nature confront myriad challenges. We describe a set of three assumptions inherent in research on human-nature connections: (1) that the conceptions researchers are measuring exist inside a person’s head; (2) that individuals

Readers share their views on climate-friendly transportation Your long read had some interesting facts (The lost history of the electric car – and what it tells us about the future of transport, 3 August), but it is also worth drawing attention to the extensive commercial use of electric vehicles in the period leading up to

Residents north of Greek capital evacuated, while 42C heat forces Acropolis to reduce opening hours Thousands of people have fled their homes north of Athens after a forest wildfire reached residential areas. The hurried evacuations took place just as Greece grappled with its worst heatwave in decades. The blaze sent a huge cloud of smoke

Landscape genetic analyses of wildlife populations can exclude variation in a broad suite of potential spatiotemporal correlates, including consideration of how such variation might have similarly influenced people over time. Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) populations in what is now known as coastal British Columbia, Canada, provide an opportunity to examine the possible effects of a