Building higher islands could save the Maldives from sea-level rise, says study
Source: Tyndall Centre Artificially raising island heights or building completely new higher islands have been proposed as solutions to...
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Curbing disinformation with UNESCO
ExxonMobil Accurately Projected Rising Temperatures While Publicly Disparaging Climate Science
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists New research by Geoffrey Supran, Stefan Rahmstorf, and Naomi Oreskes published in Science looks at...
Save Nepal’s orchids
Himalayan orchids need urgent protection before they are smuggled to extinction Source: Nepali Times There are about 30,000 species of...
US: Want Clean Energy? Then You Also Want Battery Recycling.
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and...
US: Challenges and Opportunities in Mining Materials for Energy Storage Lithium-ion Batteries
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the...
Who now owns Nepal’s forests?
Forest area has nearly doubled in the past 40 years, raising new questions about who should manage it under Nepal’s new federal structure...
Reviving Nepal’s community forestry success story
After restoring forest cover, Nepal should now prioritise harvesting and regeneration of forests to raise living standards Source: Nepali...
Including local knowledge to study climate change
Source: Nepali Times Scientist couple spend six months researching climate impact on glaciers and biodiversity below Kangchenjunga When...
Countries bet on forests and soils to reach net-zero
Source: Tyndall Centre New research by the University of East Anglia highlights the risks of countries relying on nature-based solutions...
New app allows users to explore how global warming changes their cities’ climate
Source: Tyndall Centre A new mobile app allows people to explore how global warming will affect the future climate of their towns and...
Taking climate finance to the people
Source: Nepali Times Enabling communities hit hardest by climate crisis to lead climate action Imagine a world where the people hit...
No DooM MooD
Women scientists’ answers to those who cast doubts on existing solutions to climate change in an effort to make us feel helpless. They...
Unthinkable in the Current Climate
Source: Nepali Times Hotter summers in the Indo-Gangetic plains could lead to mass migration of people to cooler Himalayan climes Kim...
Rising global temperatures point to widespread drought
Source: Tyndall Centre More frequent and longer-lasting droughts caused by rising global temperatures pose significant risks to people...
Submerged Hidden Depths | Siblings adrift in the apocalypse
Source: Hypercritic For Miku and Taku, the sea is all they know. While never going underwater, the siblings in Submerged Hidden Depths...
Foundations for sustainable buildings in Nepal
Despite benefits of rammed earth technology, Kathmandu has yet to adopt this sustainable building technique Source: Nepali Times It was...
Project Surulere Cleanup
A Lagos-based initiative to promote recycling and waste management By Joy Nwaeze On April 2nd, 2022, Good Deeds Day, an international day...
Climate Disinformation
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Misleading information on global warming can usually be traced directly to special interests. The...
Climate Solutions
Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Climate change is one of the most challenging problems that humanity has ever faced. At stake are...
Protecting Nepal’s forests from fires
Local communities and government need to save forests they have so painstakingly revived from wildfires Source: Nepali Times March 2022...
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