187 articles from THURSDAY 28.10.2021

Why TIME Dedicated an Issue to the Global Climate Fight

In 1989, when TIME chose The Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year, in lieu of the usual Person of the Year, the critics pounced. The article itself quoted a University of California scientist who called the greenhouse effect “the laugh of the century.” One reader wrote that the contents of the article “are an excellent example of the solid waste problem.” The skeptics...

NASA to Host Briefing on Webb Telescope Engineering, Deployments

Portal origin URL: NASA to Host Briefing on Webb Telescope Engineering, DeploymentsPortal origin nid: 474995Published: Thursday, October 28, 2021 - 09:14Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA will hold a virtual media briefing 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Nov. 2, to discuss the engineering of the James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most...

Call for action on TB as deaths rise for first time in decade

Tuberculosis campaigners tell G20 leaders $1bn is needed annually for vaccine research to reverse decades of underfundingA group of tuberculosis survivors are calling for more funding and action to find new vaccines, after the numbers dying of the infection rose for the first time in 10 years.In 2020, 1.5 million were killed by TB and 10 million infected, according to the World Health...

John Kerry Is Bringing America Back Into the Climate Fight

John Kerry can feel the heat. It’s a sunny mid-July day in Naples, Italy, and we’re sitting on the roof of his hotel overlooking the Mediterranean. As tourists on the other side of the patio snap photos of Mount Vesuvius looming in the background, Kerry is warning about the fate of human life on earth.…

Meet the Man Who Defines the Energy Markets—And Wants the World to Go Clean

As the head of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol oversees research on trends that define energy markets. When Birol speaks, energy companies and policymakers around the world listen, informing decisions that determine how humans power homes, factories and cars. This year, Birol turned the world upside down when he declared the dawn of a new world economy powered by clean energy after...

Barbados’ Prime Minister Has a Message for Rich Countries

In the battle to slow down climate change, countries like Barbados are on the “front line,” says Prime Minister Mia Mottley. The island is threatened by rising sea levels and extreme weather events like hurricanes that are increasing in intensity and frequency. But adapting to the impacts of climate change, to build defenses and repair the damage from hurricanes, will cost money...

There’s Still One Part of the Paris Agreement That Hasn’t Been Finalized. She Wants to Change That

Countries have long agreed that emissions could be cut faster by allowing carbon trading—where one nation or business pays for projects that reduce emissions in another country, and then counts those reductions in their own targets. These carbon markets would funnel funds to the projects that cut emissions most efficiently—potentially reducing costs of meeting targets by up to 79%....

Climate Resilience is a Design Challenge. This Bangladeshi Architect Has Solutions

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, is almost entirely surrounded by the waters of the Ganges River delta. Highly vulnerable to rising sea levels, Dhaka also faces threats from above: monsoon rains regularly overwhelm drainage systems and flood streets. Paradoxically, Dhaka also lacks clean water; as the population of 24 million sucks wells dry, seawater rushes in to take its place. Sumit...

Vanessa Nakate Wants Climate Justice for Africa

In October 2019, the Rotary Club of Bugolobi asked me to talk on the environment and climate change. I looked forward to the opportunity. It would be the first time as an activist that I’d be addressing Ugandan professionals, many of whom were my parents’ age (I’m 24). The audience would be civic-minded middle-class men…