A new report by the Food System Economics Commission highlights that transforming global food systems could yield socio-economic benefits of 5 to 10 trillion USD…
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New research finds that accounting for the long-term impacts of tropical cyclones increases the global Social Cost of Carbon by over 20%. This elevation is…
Scientists say that carbon pricing and coal mining phase-out would be effective policies. “It’s really a make-or-break moment,” says Stephen Bi from the Potsdam-Institute for…
More than 14,000 scientists from 158 countries have signed the original report. 16 of the 35 planetary vital indicators used by the researchers to measure…
The scientists discovered that even if a dry period just impacts one particular section of the forest, the damage it causes extends beyond that zone…
According to a new study, we need to transform the global food system in order to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Just shrinking the size…
Substituting 20% of meat from cattle with microbial protein — a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks — by 2050 could halve deforestation, a new…
Ethiopia may produce less specialty coffee and more rather bland tasting varieties in the future. This is the result of a new study by an…
If global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic. This is the central finding of an analysis by…
The loss of huge ice masses can contribute to the warming that is causing this loss and further risks. A new study now quantifies this…