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

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

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

By Julian Reingold and Ignacio Conese. Originally published on 26 June 2026. Source: Nepali Times Pseudoscience group claims greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis Earlier this year, a conference was held in the European Parliament to discuss the dangers of nanoplastics. Such an event would not be unusual, were it not for its co-host: a religious cult that predicts humanity will go extinct by 2036. Founded in Ukraine in 2014 and now headquartered in the US, All

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

Op-ed By Md. Masud Parvez Ove and Zohora Binte Zaman (*) in Bangladesh Ago 2026 (CitiPlat)- We tend to think of global solidarity as a simple obligation, that people and nations owe each other something, even across borders they will never cross. If a community somewhere is facing injustice, that is not a distant tragedy to feel bad about from afar. It is something the rest of us are implied in too. The UN Human Rights Office frames it plainly, meaningful realization of hum

From repression under military dictatorship and exile to serving as editor-in-chief of Inter Press Service (IPS), fostering community media in Afghanistan, and building a network linking 476 universities worldwide, Ricardo Grassi’s journey—and the model he has developed along the way—resonates deeply with the vision of an IPS founder Dr. Roberto Savio: to give a voice to the voiceless and make information a force for social change. It also reflects INPS Japan’s commitment to

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: Tyndall Centre A study in Scientific Reports assesses long-term adaptation strategies for Venice under projected sea-level rise, highlighting the implications for coastal areas worldwide. Relocating the city of Venice is among four potential options – including movable barriers, ring dikes and closing the Venetian Lagoon – that could help it adapt to future sea-level rise over the next 200 years, according to a new study. Scientists assessed existing and potential ada

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

Source: Tyndall Centre Planning future reservoirs A significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions come from reservoirs and dams, and a new framework links those emissions directly to dam siting decisions. Here’s why it is a major step towards low-carbon hydropower, anywhere in the world. Reservoirs are a recognised source of greenhouse gases, but a new spatial planning framework shows how optimising where dams are built could substantially reduce emissions. Conventional appr