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Rain-fed agriculture, the backbone of rural livelihoods, are no longer predictable as droughts follows floods.

We are hurtling toward climate chaos. The planet's vital signs are flashing red. The consequences of human-driven alterations of the climate are no longer future threats but are here now. This unfolding emergency stems from failed foresight, political inaction, unsustainable economic systems, and misinformation. Almost every corner of the biosphere is reeling from intensifying heat, storms, floods, droughts, or fires. The window to prevent the worst outcomes is rapidly closing. In early 2025, the World Meteorological Organization reported that 2024 was the hottest year on record (WMO 2025a). This was likely hotter than the peak of the last interglacial, roughly 125,000 years ago (Gulev et al. 2021, Kaufman and McKay 2022). Rising levels of greenhouse gases remain the driving force behind this escalation. These recent developments emphasize the extreme insufficiency of global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth.

Jane Goodall laat de wereld een laatste boodschap na. In een exclusief interview, dat voor haar overlijden werd opgenomen, wordt de wereldberoemde Britse biologe gevraagd wat ze ons nog zou willen meegeven na haar dood. Netflix brengt die Famous Last Words nu uit. Ze bestaan vooral uit hoop, maar ze sneert óók naar enkele machthebbers.

L’intelligence artificielle a tendance à nous rendre plus lents. Pour contrer le phénomène, des solutions existent comme le travail de mémorisation, la confrontation des idées, mais aussi la création d’espaces libres de tout outil numérique, explique la professeure d’économie Ngaire Woods dans sa chronique.

Climate change will set the parameters of our post-Princeton lives. The fires that devastated the Palisades earlier this month were, as our nation’s exasperated and exhausted climate scientists continue to remind us, only harbingers of the floods, tornados, and heatwaves to come. Global warming is surpassing the climate models that scientists built in the 2010s and early 2020s that already forecasted a borderline-apocalyptic future. Undoubtedly, by the time current Princeton students reach middle age, they will have witnessed a slew of societal structures sag — or collapse entirely — under the weight of extreme weather events and ever-worsening ecological decline.

Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California wildfires, a scientific study found. But the myriad of causes that go into the still smoldering fires are complex, so the level of global warming's fingerprints on weeks of burning appears relatively small compared to previous studies of killer heat waves, floods and droughts by the international team at World Weather Attribution. Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month's fires by 35% and its intensity by 6%.

Microplastics and nanoplastics may be present in food, primarily from environmental contamination where foods are grown or raised.

As the climate crisis causes heavier and more frequent floods across the US, one in four small businesses are one disaster away from shutting down

The floods displaced more than 80,000 people, led to over 150,000 being injured and, on the 29th of May, to 169 fatalities with 44 people still missing (Governo do Estado de Rio Grande do Sul, 2024). Essential services were also disrupted, leaving 418,200 households without electricity and over a million consumer units without water. Dozens of municipalities lost telephone and internet services.

Nieuw onderzoek in het vakblad Nature Foods waarschuwt voor een toenemend tekort aan kalium in landbouwgrond. Dat vormt een ernstige bedreiging voor de wereldwijde voedselzekerheid.

Heatwaves, wildfires and floods are just the ‘tip of the iceberg’, leading climate scientists say

Permafrost and glaciers in the high Arctic form an impermeable ‘cryospheric cap’ that traps a large reservoir of subsurface methane, preventing it from reaching the atmosphere. Cryospheric vulnerability to climate warming is making releases of this methane possible. On Svalbard, where air temperatures are rising more than two times faster than the average for the Arctic, glaciers are retreating and leaving behind exposed forefields that enable rapid methane escape. Here we document how methane-rich groundwater springs have formed in recently revealed forefields of 78 land-terminating glaciers across central Svalbard, bringing deep-seated methane gas to the surface. Waters collected from these springs during February–May of 2021 and 2022 are supersaturated with methane up to 600,000 times greater than atmospheric equilibration. Spatial sampling reveals a geological dependency on the extent of methane supersaturation, with isotopic evidence of a thermogenic source. We estimate annual methane emissions from prog

Recent verscheen bij uitgeverij Atlas 'De vloek van de nootmuskaat' van Amitav Ghosh en kreeg als ondertitel 'Boodschap aan een planeet in crisis' en eind 2022 publiceerde uitgeverij EPO 'Te groot om ons voor te stellen'. Wil Heeffer las ze allebei: “Ghosh schrijft op uiterst toegankelijke wijze over de nog altijd voortdurende effecten van het kolonialisme op natuur en mens.

Meer dan 100 mensen voeren vandaag actie aan de aandeelhoudersvergadering van Fluxys in Brussel. Samen met Vredesactie, Greenpeace, Tegengas|Dégaze en Bond Beter Leefmilieu (BBL) klagen ze aan dat Fluxys blijft investeren in fossiel gas, en zo de oorlog in Oekraïne in stand houdt en de gezondheid schaadt van gemeenschappen in de VS. “Wij eisen dat Fluxys uit fossiel gas stapt - voor het klimaat, de mensenrechten en de vrede.”

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