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Limiting Overshoot

Source: Tyndall Centre UN report sets out path to return below 1.5°C The world is set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures with rapid, collective and global climate action. Global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C, likely within the next few years, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights – but it is still possible to bring temperatures down and achieve global goals in the Paris Agreem

Oct 124 min read

Beyond the River: Ukina's Seven Sheets of Tin

Oped by Jarin Tasnim Mim (*) Dhaka, Sep. In Sukh-er Bati, a village tucked into Roumari upazila in Kurigram, people speak of Ukina Bano the way you'd speak of someone whose luck ran out a long time ago. Some call her unlucky. Others say God tests those He loves most. Neither explanation touches what she is actually carrying. Ukina is sixty-two. Her story came out of fieldwork done under EBAAN - Evidence-Based Approach to Address Non-Economic Loss and Damage, a project run by

Sep 284 min read

How on earth to finance Nepal’s disaster?

Source: Nepali Times The question is not whether there will be more climate impacts. It is how we will finance resilience, pay for damage. At 17, while backpacking through Nepal and teaching English in remote Himalayan communities, I saw the impacts of climate change firsthand. Soon after, a climate lawyer took me under his wing and introduced me to the foundations of climate finance and law. Over the past decade, I have worked at the intersection of climate activism and fina

Sep 179 min read

Your Anti-Disinformation Safety Chain for Danger Season

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists We’re now officially in Danger Season 2026—the period between May and October when North America experiences its worst climate impacts—and we should expect disinformation to ramp up on social media and other platforms. It’s the time when maintaining what I call the “safety chain” matters most. When this chain is strong, we have what we need to understand the extreme weather and disasters worsened by climate change that may be coming our w

Jun 154 min read

Data Centers, Climate Change, and Sri Lanka’s Digital Infrastructure Crossroads

Source: Factum By Dulanjaya Mahagamage The global data center industry has experienced such a rapid and profound transformation that it has surpassed both regulatory frameworks and public understanding. Historically, digital infrastructure was viewed primarily as a technological issue focused on bandwidth, latency, and server capacity. However, this perspective is no longer sufficient. Data centers are now positioned at the crossroads of three major challenges defining the 21

Jun 118 min read

Huge Solar Potential

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists How We Unlock the Huge Solar Potential in Massachusetts’ Environmental Justice Communities Massachusetts has tremendous solar potential in environmental justice neighborhoods: enough to power all of the Commonwealth’s nearly three million homes. Activating this resource is key to fulfilling the state’s decarbonization and affordability goals. This is particularly vital as energy costs have become an everyday point of discussion for Massac

Jun 15 min read

How much ice must melt before we act?

Source: Nepali Times Cryosphere loss has immediate consequences for water security, livelihoods, infrastructure, and climate justice The Himalaya is melting twice as fast as the global average, and this is accelerated by air pollution. Called black carbon, suspended particles emitted by industries, vehicle exhaust, or forest fires accelerate glacial retreat in High Asia. Dark matter makes the ice melt faster (as seen in Kapuche Lake in Kaski, pictured above). The snowline is

Dec 26, 20253 min read

Mountains at the tipping point

Source: Nepali Times Cryosphere loss has immediate consequences for water security, livelihoods, infrastructure, and climate justice Belém’s lowland Amazon landscape stands in stark contrast to Himalayan peaks, yet the decisions adopted at COP30 will influence the future of mountain regions across the world. For the first time, mountains were anchored across several outcomes of the UN climate negotiations, including a dedicated dialogue to be held during the United Nations Fr

Dec 18, 20256 min read

Extreme wildfire seasons across the Americas

Sorce: Tyndall Centre Human-driven climate change made wildfires in parts of South America and Southern California many times larger and more destructive, according to an annual assessment by international experts. According to climate models, the Los Angeles wildfires in January were twice as likely and 25 times larger, in terms of burned area, in the current climate than they would have been in a world with no human-caused global warming. It also made last year’s burning in

Oct 22, 20255 min read