The Amazon — the “lungs” of our planet — is burning. What to do? Punish Brazil with sanctions? Eat less meat? Or send in forces? Fire in the Amazon rainforest, Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, 25 August 2019 (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Here are...
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...
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...