The climate crisis is everywhere now, but so are initiatives to cope with it and counter it. That is perhaps the biggest positive change since the 2015 Paris Climate Accord. You can see this just by watching television or Internet news, reading the most informative...
Record heat around the world. Wild fires in the Arctic. Greenland’s ice rapidly melting. Climate change is upon us. The situation is dire — but we can act. Satellite image shows winds carrying smoke from wildfires in Russia, center right, towards the southwest,...
Should central banks actively fight climate change? A UK non-profit disagrees with News-Decoder correspondents and says “absolutely!” Demonstrators in front of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, 24 May 2019 (EPA-EFE/Armando Babani) In this...
Sue Landau reckons that “as long as there are humans, there will be some kind of news industry.” This is the fifth in a series of profiles of News-Decoder correspondents. Sue Landau reckons that “as long as there are humans, there will be some kind of news...
Central banks have clout. Why not fight climate change by steering private banks away from fossil fuels? News-Decoder writers tackle the question. Students demonstrate against climate change in front of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany, 24 May 2019...
The UN’s Green Climate Fund helps finance climate projects in poor countries. Most of its money goes to large international players. Is that right? Women walk on farmland destroyed by salt due to rising sea levels in Saloum Delta, Senegal, 19 October 2015 (AP...
The fire at Notre-Dame cathedral moved citizens in France. But an outpouring of donations to fund its reconstruction has stirred controversy. Notre-Dame Cathedral burns, 15 April 2019 (EPA-EFE/Ian Langsdon) I was meeting my parents at a restaurant near the...
Eating local seems a great way to fight climate change. So why have politicians stopped pushing the issue? And why have corporations taken it up? A banana worker on a plantation near Parrita, Costa Rica, 6 July 2005 (AP Photo/Kent Gilbert, file) Food miles — the...
By Karina Andersen We live in a farming-based community, so we often hear of the struggles local farmers face from a changing climate and rising temperatures. Our video explores how agricultural practices affect the environment and the ways farmers are changing their...
Instead of having too many babies, China is now having too few. A declining population is increasingly referred to in apocalyptic terms. Indians commuting in Bangalore, 11 July 2018 (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi) The year 2018 saw a “historic turning point” in China’s...