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US: Six Ways Science Can Boost Climate Accountability in 2023

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Never has holding the fossil fuel industry accountable for driving the climate crisis been more...

US: How Are Wind Turbines Made?

Source: Union of Concerned Scientists Many humans feel at least a bit of “megalophilia”—a love of very, very big things. This might be...

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...

Film Review: The Thin Red Line, using war as a metaphor for humanity's disconnect from nature

by Alberto Sclaverano for Citiplat There was a lot of curiosity in the film industry about The Thin Red Line, which had its theatrical...

Film Review: Avatar, The Way of Water dives deeper into ecological themes

by Alberto Sclaverano for Citiplat Thirteen years after the release of James Cameron's Avatar, which continues to hold the title 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...

Indigenous communities in Brazil

Interview: Kaime Silvestre By Alessandra Bonanomi Despite their negligible ecological footprint, Indigenous people are often the first to...

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...

Film Review: 2040, when approaching the climate crisis with a bit of optimism seems a good idea

By: Alberto Sclaverano Damon Gameau’s 2019 Australian documentary 2040 is unique among the pictures that deal with the climate crisis....

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...

Brazil/2: The Politics of Affection

As explained by an indigenous woman elected to Brazil's National Congress By: Amanda Vargas Sonia Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá are on a...

Brazil/1: A Ray of Hope

The election of two indigenous women to Brazil's National Congress By: Amanda Vargas Sonia Guajajara and Célia Xakriabá are on a mission...

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...

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