Daisyworld model highlights how quick environmental shifts can doom ecosystems
Imagine a world filled only with daisies. Light-colored daisies reflect sunlight, cooling down the planet, while darker daisies absorb sunlight, warming it up. Together, these two types of daisies ...
Cambridge theater and MIT mark 20 years of creating science based plays
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Catalyst Collaborative​, a relationship between Central Square Theater in ...
Green skills to help nature repair itself are scarce: what we’re doing to train more experts in South Africa and Senegal
Universities in Senegal and South Africa are now teaching the skills of setting up nature-inspired projects to deal with some ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
The results of Foote’s simple experiments were confirmed through hundreds of tests by scientists in the US and Europe. It ...
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UChicago launches new major in climate and sustainable growth
Pioneering curriculum provides a multidisciplinary approach to examining climate change through UChicago classes, travel ...
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Hotter, drier, faster, stronger: The role climate change did - and did not - play in the California wildfires
Climate change did not ignite the recent blazes that engulfed swathes of Los Angeles this month. But it did make them worse in at least one key way, a rapid analysis has found. The fires that ...
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Pakistan Faces Highest Climate Risk in South Asia, Children Most Affected: UNICEF Report
(Photo by Shahid Saeed MIRZA / AFP) (Photo by SHAHID SAEED MIRZA/AFP via Getty Images) A recently published UNICEF report has ranked Pakistan among the countries where children face the highest risks ...
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This film made many Indian parents to change their will, people feared giving property rights to children, its not Baghban, film is…
In one of Rajesh Khanna’s films, the role played by his son made people change their perspective on their own children. The actor, who played the son in the film, later became a villain in the ...
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Why farmers are beginning to take their government to court over climate change
at the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, and is president of the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern. Farmers suing their government for failing to ...
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Children joined riots for the 'thrill', report says
Children who took part in riots last summer ... "More widely, work is taking place across government – underscored by our Plan for Change – to break down the barriers to opportunity and ...
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World News in Brief: Children killed in Darfur hospital attack, date set for US climate pact withdrawal, WHO leads call to fight neglected diseases
The children were among the patients being treated in the ... The UN Spokesperson said the latest withdrawal would not lead to any slowdown in the UN’s efforts to combat climate change. "We reaffirm ...
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Why Climate-Change Ideology Is Dying
Many sects and cults dwindle the moment their supposedly ascetic leaders are revealed to be libertines. Something similar is happening to climate ideology.