Have you ever wondered what it would take to halt one of the world's busiest airports in its tracks? This week, climate activists provided a dramatic answer.
In the unforgiving climes of rural Tunisia, where the sun beats down with a relentless intensity, 80-year-old Hania Hakiri embarks on a grueling odyssey. Her mission: to secure water, a commodity as precious as it is scarce. Carrying two containers, she toils under the scorching sun, a burden that weighs heavily on her aging back. This arid landscape holds no water; if it were available at home, freedom would be within reach. But for Hania and countless others, the quest for water is a daily reminder of the harsh realities of life in a warming world.
Are you prepared for a world where summer in London feels like a scorching inferno, where entire nations are swallowed by the rising seas, and where food scarcity becomes the norm? As the impacts of human-caused climate change intensify, one cannot help but wonder: what awaits us in the next 30 to 80 years if we continue on our current trajectory?
In the simmering heat of summer 1997, a full-page advertisement unfolded across the pages of The New York Times, a message from the Global Climate Coalition that carried a chilling warning. The US's adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, the ad proclaimed, would spell economic doom. Yet beneath the cheerful visage of children, lay a more sinister campaign—a multimillion-dollar misinformation fest, bankrolled by some of the world's most influential corporations.
Have you ever wondered if there's a way to reverse the damaging effects of climate change caused by carbon dioxide emissions? What if I told you that a groundbreaking innovation in science and physics has the potential to suck CO2 out of the air? Welcome to the world of carbon capture, a technology that could either mitigate climate change or worsen it, depending on how it's implemented.