Category Archives: Climate change

What Does the Antarctic Ice Shelf Break Really Mean?

Posted on July 12, 2017 by

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has just broken away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Over the past few years, I’ve led a team that has been studying this ice shelf and monitoring change. We spent … Continue reading →

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The Uninhabitable Earth: What climate change could wreak

Posted on July 11, 2017 by

It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today. … Continue reading →

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Climate change is causing a major redistribution of Life on Earth

Posted on May 19, 2017 by

Last year in Paris, for the very first time, English sparkling wine beat champagne in a blind tasting event. Well established French Champagne houses have started buying fields in Britain to grow grapes, and even the royal family is investing … Continue reading →

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City Regions as Landscapes for People, Food and Nature

Posted on March 30, 2016 by

This paper is focused on how agriculture – including the natural and cultural resources that sustain people in and around cities, and even in remote rural areas – provides important and reciprocal benefits to the sustainable development of both rural … Continue reading →

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A Rough Ride to the Future

Posted on January 6, 2016 by

In A Rough Ride to the Future, James Lovelock – the great scientific visionary of our age – presents a radical vision of humanity’s future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system James Lovelock, who has been hailed as ‘the … Continue reading →

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Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey

Posted on January 5, 2016 by

Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and … Continue reading →

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Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics

Posted on December 13, 2015 by

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in … Continue reading →

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The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Posted on December 13, 2015 by

Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever to have confronted human social, political, and economic systems. The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the science besieged, the politics bitter and complicated, the psychology … Continue reading →

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Resource Guide on Gender and Climate Change

Posted on December 12, 2015 by

Climate change is the defining human development issue of our generation. The 2007 Human Development report acknowledges that climate change threatens to erode human freedoms and limit choice and the report further underscores that gender inequality intersects with climate risks … Continue reading →

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The Inequalities of Climate Change

Posted on December 7, 2015 by

Climate change is inextricably linked to economic inequality: it is a crisis that is driven by the greenhouse gas emissions of the ‘haves’ that hits the ‘have-nots’ the hardest. In this briefing Oxfam demonstrates the extent of global carbon inequality … Continue reading →

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