Opinion


What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

What happens to the climate crisis if Trump wins in November?

ByLogan GourlayJul 25, 2024
Marco Magrini considers the impact on tackling the climate crisis if Donald Trump wins the US election
Concept art of the earth plugged into digital wiring and techonology

We ask AI to explain why we struggle with solving the climate crisis

ByMarco MagriniJul 5, 2024
Marco Magrini asks a sophisticated AI model why we are failing to tackle climate change
Concept art of spaceman playing basketball with earth

Does comparing tackling climate change to the space race make any sense?

ByAndrew BrooksJun 6, 2024
Andrew Brooks on why comparisons between the space race and the global environmental crisis are both misleading and counter-productive
The novel The Ministry of the Future starts with record temperatures in India

The sci-fi world of climate change

ByMarco MagriniJun 3, 2024
Marco Magrini on the lessons to be learned from a dystopian climate novel
The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting logo

Geopolitics: poverty on the rise in the global south

ByTim MarshallMay 25, 2024
Tim Marshall considers what the first increases in global poverty in decades could mean for a fragile world order
Concept art of toy soilders standing around Ukraine and surrounding area on world map

Geopolitics: Is the post-Cold War holiday over?

ByTim MarshallMay 1, 2024
Tim Marshall considers the impact of the Polish prime minister’s warning that we are now in a pre-war era 
entrance to Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone

African hospitals are not stuck in the past, they’re struggling in the present

ByAndrew BrooksApr 26, 2024
Andrew Brooks examines the false comparisons that distort our understanding of developing countries and their healthcare
concept art of a wooden door in a barren field opening up to a lush green landscape

Doors are closing on solutions, argues the Climate Crisis Advisory Group

ByMarco MagriniApr 18, 2024
The four Rs – reduce, resilience, repair & remove - are now considered to be the keys to tackling the climate crisis, reports Marco Magrini
Controlled fires are now part of land management in many countries

Fires, forest and our lands – an Indigenous ecological perspective

ByGeographical StaffApr 8, 2024
Western science has a lot to learn from Indigenous perspectives on how to manage fire says Hillary Renick, President of the California Indian Land Institute
Wind turbines, Xinjiang, China

Climatewatch: The politics of net zero needs to move as fast as the technology changes

ByMarco MagriniMar 25, 2024
Marco Magrini points out that climate technology is racing ahead of climate politics in finding much-needed solutions
Women wait to vote in India geopolitics

Geopolitics: Modi heading for a third term

ByTim MarshallMar 22, 2024
Tim Marshall looks to the Indian elections, in which more than 900 million people are eligible to vote
Food production generates the equivalent of 31 per cent of all greenhouse gases

Food for thought: feeding the world accounts for a third of human-made carbon emissions

ByMarco MagriniMar 18, 2024
For Marco Magrini the agricultural transition is as important and urgent as the energy transition
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