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Green Cement and climate change

Building & Cities / Clean Economy & Pollution / Climate Change & Our Warming World / Featured / Featured Headline / News Stories

Green cement? Captured carbon may fuel new markets and help climate

Capturing planet-warming carbon dioxide and turning it into useful products, from plastics to jet fuel, could make climate action cheaper and become a good business – but market obstacles need to be overcome first, researchers said this week.

Land clearing, cattle populations and carbon emissions stand alongside temperature as important measures of climate change. DAN PELED/AAP

Climate Change & Our Warming World / Featured / Featured Headline / News Stories

11,000 scientists warn: climate change isn’t just about temperature

Exactly 40 years ago, a small group of scientists met at the world’s first climate conference in Geneva. They raised the alarm about unnerving climate trends. Today, more than 11,000 scientists have co-signed a letter in the journal BioScience, calling for urgently necessary action on climate.

Water crashing over a road near Galveston Bay just outside of Houston, Texas during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Photo by Eric Overton/iStock

Climate Change & Our Warming World / Featured / Featured Headline / Government & Politics / News Stories / US, Canada & the Americas

Richer nations urged to boost protection against wild weather as economic losses jump

Economic losses caused by the most extreme weather events, from hurricanes to wildfires, are surging fastest in parts of the world outside the tropics – places that once saw relatively few such disasters, scientists and statisticians have warned.

Bald Eagle in flight in Alaska, USA. Photo by Andy Morffew / Flickr

Comment & Opinion / Conservation Stories / Featured / Featured Headline / People & Place

For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind

In 1957, the world watched in wonder as the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into outer space. Despite Cold War anxieties, The New York Times admitted that space exploration ‘represented a step toward escape from man’s imprisonment to Earth and its thin envelope of atmosphere’.

Featured / From Locavore / Locavore Profiles

Discovering lost skills at the School of Artisan Food

Hidden away in the ancient Sherwood Forest on The Welbeck Estate, the ancestral seat of the Dukes of Portland, is the rather unique School of Artisan Food. The Estate has a fascinating history, but it is its reinvention through The Welbeck Project, of which the School is a part, which will see it prosper and thrive for future generations.