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The worlds of science and comic art have been brought together to deliver powerful messages about climate change. Three leading comic creators have collaborated with CONSTRAIN to develop comics exploring the climate change challenge. 'Degrees of Change' by Darryl Cunningham The comics feature satirical conversations between migrating polar bears and penguins, a trip to a...
Climate change sceptics and climate activists are being urged to get together to try to find common ground as part of a study by the University of Leeds. Researchers want to understand what divides people and what might bring them closer together and have partnered with the Daily Mirror newspaper for a project called “Britain...
The continued pursuit of economic growth in high income countries is at odds with the climate targets and fairness requirements of the Paris Agreement, say researchers. No high-income country has achieved what could legitimately be called “green growth” – where economic growth occurs alongside emission reductions consistent with the Paris Agreement. The authors of the study, Jefim...
Tropical forests in South America lose their ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere when conditions become exceptionally hot and dry, according to new research. For a long time, tropical forests have acted as a carbon sink, taking more carbon out of the air than they release into it, a process that has moderated the...
Giant dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska can last for many days and send tonnes of fine sediment or silt into the atmosphere, and it is having an impact on the global climate system, say scientists. The storms are so extensive they can be seen by satellites orbiting the Earth. An image captured by...