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Warning comes as Climate Council report finds Australia will not have ‘lasting national security’ without addressing climate crisis Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Australia has its “head in the sand” regarding the national security implications of climate change and should follow the US in spelling out the risks, a former

Publication date: January 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 191 Author(s): Tom Staton, Tom D. Breeze, Richard J. Walters, Jo Smith, Robbie D. Girling

The Scandinavian country faces a crisis of conscience on the eve of elections Norway goes to the polls on Monday in parliamentary elections that are forcing western Europe’s largest oil and gas producer to confront its environmental contradictions. Climate issues have dominated the campaigning since August, when the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published

California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah faced historic heatwaves, which were made possible by human-caused global heating, a study found California experienced its hottest summer on record this year as the climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves and intense wildfires in the state and across the American west. Related: ‘Fire weather’: dangerous days now far more

The participation of diverse actors and usage of traditional and local knowledge have been recognized as important for ecosystem management, including local biodiversity strategies and action plans (LBSAPs) implemented in municipalities. Assessing the effects and influences of the participation of diverse actors and usage of traditional and local knowledge requires analyses by a social-ecological system

Research on ecosystem services has focused primarily on questions of availability or supply and often assumes a single human community of identical beneficiaries. However, how people perceive and experience ecosystem services can differ by socio-demographic characteristics such as material wealth, gender, education, and age. Equitable environmental management depends on understanding and accommodating different perceptions of

Analysis shows future is bleak for fossil fuel industry with trillions of dollars of assets at stake The vast majority of fossil fuel reserves owned today by countries and companies must remain in the ground if the climate crisis is to be ended, an analysis has found. The research found 90% of coal and 60%