klimaatrisico

The War Inside Data Centers

As AI demand drives a data‑centre boom, energy, water and mineral extraction are colliding with military contracts and environmental injustice. New deals and fast‑track laws are a… Jan 28, 2026

Environment

Smothered: Living Through Victoria's Heat

A week of record-shattering temperatures turned towns like Ouyen into places that feel 'smothering' — a snapshot of what extreme heat does to bodies, wildlife, infrastructure and … Jan 28, 2026

Technology

China's New Lithium Breakthrough Raises Stakes in Tibet

China says a patented production line in Qinghai has sharply boosted lithium recovery from salt-lake brines, raising economic returns for Tibetan and plateau deposits and creating… Jan 25, 2026

Science

Antarctica’s Ice Vault Stores Vanishing Climate Data

A new cold‑storage sanctuary at Concordia Station has received its first glacial ice cores this week, securing climate records threatened by rapid glacier loss. The facility aims … Jan 21, 2026

Environment

UN Declares Global 'Water Bankruptcy'

A United Nations University report led by Kaveh Madani says the world has passed a tipping point: rivers, wetlands and aquifers are being depleted and degraded faster than they ca… Jan 21, 2026

Science

Amazon Nears Hypertropical Climate Shift

A major Nature study finds the central Amazon is experiencing ‘hot droughts’ that signal an emerging hypertropical climate — a hotter, drier state not seen for millions of years —… Dec 31, 2025

Space

Where Glacier, Lake and River Touch

An astronaut photo from 2021 captures a striking point in Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park where glacier ice, a turquoise lake and a sediment-rich river converge — a vivid … Dec 30, 2025

Environment

White House Moves to Dismantle NCAR

The Trump administration this week announced plans to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, a decision that scientists warn could weaken U.S. weather f… Dec 18, 2025

Environment

Bombs, white phosphorus and a wounded landscape

New reporting and research paint a stark picture of environmental damage in southern Lebanon: repeated white‑phosphorus strikes, burned forests, contaminated soils and waterways, … Dec 15, 2025

Environment

EPA Erases Human-Caused Climate Language

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has edited and removed pages that explicitly link modern warming to human activity, replacing clear scientific language with references to… Dec 14, 2025

Environment

Is New York Abandoning Climate Goals?

State approvals for a new gas pipeline and a controversial crypto‑mining settlement have reignited questions about New York's commitment to the Climate Leadership and Community Pr… Dec 08, 2025

Environment

Greening Cities to Close the Equity Gap

New global roadmaps and fine-grained data show how nature-based solutions can cut heat, flood risk and pollution while targeting help to the most exposed communities — if planners… Dec 04, 2025

Environment

Study: Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Is More Unpredictable and Risky Than Modeled

A Columbia University study in Scientific Reports finds technical, logistical and supply-chain limits could make planet-cooling stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) far less feas… Nov 14, 2025

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The War Inside Data Centers

Smothered: Living Through Victoria's Heat

China's New Lithium Breakthrough Raises Stakes in Tibet

Antarctica’s Ice Vault Stores Vanishing Climate Data

UN Declares Global 'Water Bankruptcy'

Amazon Nears Hypertropical Climate Shift

Where Glacier, Lake and River Touch

White House Moves to Dismantle NCAR

Bombs, white phosphorus and a wounded landscape

EPA Erases Human-Caused Climate Language

Is New York Abandoning Climate Goals?

Greening Cities to Close the Equity Gap

Study: Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Is More Unpredictable and Risky Than Modeled