Skip navigation
In: Science, Society

Climate Change

The industrial revolution was the starting point of an unstoppable increase in carbon emissions, which inevitably leads to global warming. Many scientists believe that a 2°C (3.6°F) rise in global temperature would lead to a major environmental catastrophe. Learn about the climate crisis, current developments in climate research and the emerging technologies that could save the world.

Related Channels

Summaries

10 Book

The Heat Will Kill You First

Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
Little, Brown US, 2023
9 Article

Can the World's Religions Help Save Us from Ecological Peril?

Scholars and religious leaders argue that a spiritual connection to nature is essential for environmental recovery.
Paul Hond
Columbia Magazine, 2023
8 Book

False Alarm

How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjorn Lomborg
Basic Books, 2021
9 Book

Slow Burn

The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
R. Jisung Park
Princeton UP, 2024
8 Book

Democracy in a Hotter Time

Climate Change and Democratic Transformation
David W. Orr
MIT Press, 2023
9 Report
Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society
Hamburg University, 2023
8 Article
Giada Ferraglioni and Sergio Colombo
BBC, 2023
8 Book

Five Times Faster

Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
Simon Sharpe
Cambridge UP, 2023
8 Article

How to Channel Eco-Anxiety

Learning to live between despair and hope
Renée Lertzman and Sam Mowe
Tricycle, 2023
8 Article
Kate Magill
Supply Chain Dive, 2023
8 Video
Bob Litterman and Michael Liebreich
Cleaning Up - Leadership in an Age of Climate C..., 2023
9 Article

Where There's Smoke

In the Okanagan, reports Paloma Pacheco, wine and wildfires make for a problematic pairing.
Paloma Pacheco
Maisonnueve, 2022