Rising #temperatures driven by #climatechange are causing #Himalayan#glaciers to melt at an increasing rate, creating more & more glacial lakes in the process. Researchers have identified more than 8,000 glacial lakes in the #Hima…https://t.co/8jGiZdFBnK https://t.co/is2WWQDj1D
The costs of #climatechange are often estimated in #monetary terms, but this raises #ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the #human#climate niche’—defined as the historically highly cons…https://t.co/ZaKozegUk3 https://t.co/ACzclGVbPL
Even temporarily reaching 1.5°C is "an indication that as we start having these years with 1.5°C happening more & more often, then we are getting closer to having the actual long-term #climate be on that threshold. It also means th…https://t.co/oznyDjeXR6 https://t.co/kv6vbCrdaS
Increasingly, #companies are releasing new net-zero goals to neutralize their #greenhousegasemissions in the future. And instead of substantially reducing their #carbonemissions, a lot of those pledges rely on using a technique cal…https://t.co/b9YYZ11fEz https://t.co/odqD9gRC7w
A research shows that all of us, from #politicians, #city & #businessleaders to #individual#citizens, have important roles to play. And it is clear there’s lots that we can do as individuals, and that this is one of the easiest an…https://t.co/N4L8QVdFk1 https://t.co/cvbE9kDBVK
#Greatstories often start from a tantalizing #whatif?”—the more irresistibly original the premise, the better. In The #Terraformers, the new novel from i09 founder & former Gizmodo editor in chief Act details. @AnnaleeNewitz, the c…https://t.co/igKlXgXuT1 https://t.co/Fib5kfzGX6
Allowing the #amazonrainforest collapse would be complete idiocy on the part of #humanity, but we appear to be #sleepwalking right into it while the #wolrd’s (53acgbeaders once again sit on their hands. https://t.co/9MGhZdTXNx
There is an urgent imperative — both ethical and regulatory — that artificial intelligence technologies should only be used to complement and elevate what makes us uniquely human: our creativity, our curiosity and, at our best, our…https://t.co/oTZTIPh4wQ https://t.co/Bxl0veVE7h
#Population#stabilization & decline will inevitably be achieved by centering #humanrights. #policymakers must guarantee bodily #autonomy & access to reproductive #healthcare, gender equity, & women & girls’ education. By addressin…https://t.co/BMisuC2TTq https://t.co/vVNPH98zNP
#God like #AI could be a force beyond our control or understanding, and one that could usher in the #obsolescence or #destruction of the #human race. Until now, #humans have remained a necessary part of the #learningprocess that ch…https://t.co/0Jmw1hj9ur https://t.co/EMwwdzDkvs
Close examination of the arguments made by #climatechange deniers reveals the same mistake made over & over again. The cognitive error known as black-&-white thinking, also called #dichotomous & all-or-none thinking. A source of #d…https://t.co/4b425aABbx https://t.co/zIKIKZX1AV
#Economic output isn’t shared equally between #countries or between #people within individual countries. As a result, we overuse #resources while still failing to meet many basic #human needs. As a prime example, the #richest 1% of…https://t.co/iH73i29E2K https://t.co/MDJo7ELQaQ