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Climate models show switch will happen decades faster than previously thought, with ‘profound’ implications Rain will replace snow as the Arctic’s most common precipitation as the climate crisis heats up the planet’s northern ice cap, according to research. Today, more snow falls in the Arctic than rain. But this will reverse, the study suggests, with

Letter calls for urgent action this winter to help those with no, or inadequate, housing Homeless people and those in poor housing are at increasing risk from the climate crisis, while suffering the consequences of our dependence on costly fossil fuels, housing charities have warned. The leaders of three of the UK’s biggest housing charities

Critics say retrofitting rather than demolishing and constructing buildings has less climate impact There is a new front in Britain’s planning wars. Rows over obstructed views and architectural style are being elbowed aside by concerns about the carbon footprint of new buildings. This week, Marks & Spencer became the latest company challenged over its climate

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Tanya O’Garra, Roger Fouquet

Collapsed supplier used access to ministers to criticise competitors’ green credentials and exaggerate its own Too good to be true – Bulb’s rapid rise and fall Collapsed energy supplier Bulb Energy appears to have used its role advising ministers on green business to exaggerate its own environmental credentials, while playing down rivals’ progress. Bulb’s chief

Large-scale land transactions (LSLTs) can precipitate dramatic changes in land systems. Ethiopia has experienced one of the largest amounts of LSLTs in Africa, yet their effects on local land systems are poorly understood. In this study, we quantify the direct and indirect land use and land cover (LULC) changes associated with LSLTs at eight socio-environmentally

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Max Tesselaar, W.J. Wouter Botzen, Peter J. Robinson, Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts, Fujin Zhou