Source: Tyndall Centre Limiting global warming offers greatest protection for climate refugia globally Climate action compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C could more than halve the combined loss of today’s climate refugia compared with current climate policies, even after accounting for the impacts of land-intensive climate mitigation. Decisive climate action, compatible with limiting global warming to 1.5°C, could reduce the combined loss of climate refugia by mo

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

Source: Tyndall Centre From improving soil health to increasing water storage, it is essential that UK farms build resilience to future droughts and a changing climate. Drought and climate change are already causing major losses to UK farming – according to an expert from the University of East Anglia (UEA). Professor Neil Ward, from the School of Environmental Sciences at UEA and member of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, says that the recent string of heatwav

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists From Assessment to Action A cumulative impacts approach to environmental protection can lead to better policies and better outcomes. But cumulative impacts analysis is not the destination—it’s the way we get from evidence to effective action. If we want cumulative impacts to change conditions on the ground, we need to change the way we talk about them—and who we talk to. The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released Unfinished Busin

Source: Nepali Times Introducing alternate wet and dry cropping reduces methane emission, saves water and generates revenue A simple change in traditional irrigation methods could cut methane emission, save water, and create a new source of carbon credits for rural economies in Nepal. But making it work will require coordination, monitoring and fair distribution of the revenue. Flooded rice fields are a familiar sight across Nepal. Keeping the paddy plant underwater controls

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Warmed Oceans Will Not Be Ignored It’s easy for us land dwellers to forget that we live on a water planet, more than 70% of it covered by a vast ocean. But we are entering an age—or more accurately, have created an age—when that fact will be impossible to ignore. With global climate change, the seas are rising, yes, but they are also warming, slowly but steadily, and that warmth is now reaching levels that can drive profound changes here

Source: Nepali Times Securing a future for community-managed conservation area below the world’s third highest mountain Nepal’s Kanchenjunga Conservation Area (KCA) is one of the most unique experiments in community-managed nature protection in the Himalaya. The landscape below the world’s third highest mountain in eastern Nepal supports globally significant biodiversity, including the endangered snow leopard, red panda, musk deer, and black bear. But it also sustains mountai

Source: Nepali Times We need plans that can put an investment value to forest and water resources From the perspective of a green economy, this is not a balanced budget. It does not try to address the importance of preserving Nepal’s natural capital. Forests are biological supermarkets– they cover 46.08% of Nepal’s area and provide numerous ecological goods and services every year that cannot be accounted for in terms of water regulation, carbon sequestration, biodiversity pr

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

Source: Tyndall Centre An international review of the 2025 fire season highlights the severe societal and economic losses caused by extreme wildfires, even as global burned area and fire emissions remained below average. A new analysis of global wildfire activity in 2025 reveals the world experienced some of the most destructive and deadly fire events in recent history, despite the second lowest area burned since 2002. It highlights a continued trend toward fires becoming inc

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

Source: Nepali Times Nepali researcher is still looking for answers to balancing nature conservation with human livelihoods t was a packed hall in the summer of 2019 at the 20th anniversary of the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Cambridge. An empty chair on the stage waited for one man. Hundreds of students and researchers excitedly anticipated the arrival of Sir David Attenborough. The British nature broadcaster and writer marked his 100th birthday this week,

Source: Tyndall Center Researchers warn that framing biodiversity loss as a national security threat relies on speculative migration projections and risks undermining the evidence-based policy required for genuine ecological restoration. Scientists have warned that a new UK Government report on global biodiversity loss and national security runs the risk of distorting evidence and driving ineffective policy by framing ecological degradation and its impacts on migration as a s

Connecting the futures of jaguars, whales, and humans into one vibrant ecosystem By RAMESH JAURA Source: CMO COP15 Marking a watershed moment for global conservation, countries at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) united behind bold new protections for a host of threatened migratory species, including jaguars, sharks, and freshwater fish. Most significantly, they linked the fate of these

Source: Tyndall Centre Researchers report that well-designed climate policies prevented more than three billion tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2022, demonstrating that policy design is critical to effective decarbonisation. Countries with stricter and better-targeted climate policies cut carbon emissions faster, according to a major new study . Involving researchers in the UK and EU, including academics from the University of East Anglia (UEA), the study draws on the most compreh

Source: Tyndall Centre A new global assessment of climate risks to biodiversity across more than 98,000 protected areas worldwide provides an open-access tool to support climate resilience planning. Scientists have published the most comprehensive assessment to date of how climate change threatens biodiversity in more than 98,000 protected areas worldwide, aiming to help conservationists build resilience in the face of accelerating climate impacts. The open-access tool – Wall

Deep Dive into Research Gaps and Emerging Threats Latin America and Spain This comprehensive analysis moves beyond a simple literature review; it is a crucial state-of-the-art assessment designed to systematically map and understand the complex communication phenomena fueling the contemporary climate and environmental crisis. This research was produced by AIUNCA, the International University Agency for Environmental News and Communication, an initiative of the international p

The University Agency for Environmental News and Communication Bringing together universities from around the world Belém, Brazil – November 12, 2025, 9:30 a.m. Italian Pavilion “Made of Future” – PV-A08, Blue Zone Event proposed by IULM University with IPS Academy / CitiPlat AIUNCA, the International University Agency for Environmental News and Communication, will be officially presented at COP30 within the international spaces dedicated to innovation, sustainability, and in

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Ask a Scientist: How Do We Solve California’s Water Shortage Crisis? California’s megadrought seems as endless as the Mojave Desert. Between killer heat and growing wildfires, the state experiences some of the harshest effects of climate change. Although California is leading in clean energy policies needed to tackle the worst impacts, water management is still a real problem—for everyone in the country. That’s because the United State

Kathmandu, Nepal Source: Nepali Times Extreme heat affects the urban poor more, cities need greenery to cope In 2023, northern India...