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How to build mental resilience to climate change

This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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How countries can be held responsible for staying within new legal climate target of 1.5°C

Global emissions need to peak this year to stay within 1.5°C of global temperature rise since pre-industrial levels. This means that starting now, countries need to emit less greenhouse gas. Emissions also need to be cut in half by 2030 to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

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Why hurricanes rarely kill in Cuba

Hours before Hurricane Melissa roared towards Cuba’s second-largest city, Santiago de Cuba, the island’s president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, announced that 735,000 people had been evacuated – one in every 15 Cubans. The storm had already smashed into Jamaica, the most powerful to ever strike the island, causing landslides, power failures and…

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As the Paris climate agreement turns ten, it’s showing its age

Ten years after the world agreed on an historic framework for climate action, the very features that made the Paris agreement possible are now holding it back. Designed to foster cooperation, it has instead become a system for forging agreement rather than delivering change.

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Why even pro-climate action organisations may pull in different directions

This year’s UN climate summit (Cop30) in Belém, Brazil, begins with a familiar dilemma: how can we tackle a highly political, long-term problem that involves every country of the world?

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Ukraine’s massive nature project is helping veterans and land recover

Ukrainians have always felt closely tied to their land, often expressing this through literature and folktales. But these connections have grown even stronger since the country was invaded by Russia in 2022.

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Professor Nishan Canagarajah steps down as Chair of The Conversation UK

Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, is to step down as Chair of The Conversation Trust UK’s Board of Trustees at the end of 2025, after four years in the role.

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Brazil’s upcoming UN climate summit highlights how tricky climate pledges are to keep

For two weeks during November, countries are coming together in the city of Belém in Brazil to negotiate their responses to climate change. This will be the 30th UN climate summit, known as Cop30. It marks ten years since the negotiation of the Paris agreement (a global agreement to keep…

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How wars ravage the environment – and what international law is doing about it

People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their homes will be built back. But the climate consequences of the war will remain for years to…

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41 Dangerous, Unsafe And Unhinged Historical Sports

How far would you go in the name of sport?

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Jane Austen’s world ran on gossip – and she revelled in it

Jane Austen’s Paper Trail is a podcast from The Conversation celebrating 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth. In each episode, we’ll be investigating a different aspect of Austen’s personality by interrogating one of her novels with leading Austen researchers. Along the way we’ll visit locations important to Austen to uncover…

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Jamie Morton joins The Conversation New Zealand as Deputy Editor

Former New Zealand Herald journalist Jamie Morton has joined The Conversation New Zealand as Deputy Editor.

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The planet wants you to eat more offal – here’s how to increase consumption

Meat has a large environmental impact, but could consuming more of it be part of the answer?

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Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – how NASA simulates conditions in space without blasting off

You may have heard about the extensive testing facilities for spacecraft and equipment, but how do scientists prepare for the human aspect of space exploration?

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Unpaid ‘women’s work’ is worth $427 billion, new research shows. See how much your unpaid labour is worth

All those thousands of hours that Australians put towards unpaid household work and care – cooking, cleaning and caring for family members – are an essential thread that keeps our economy stitched together.

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Does the full moon make us sleepless? A neurologist explains the science behind sleep, mood and lunar myths

Research shows a full moon can modestly affect sleep, but its influence on mental health is much less certain.

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Conflict and the climate crisis may mean it’s time to rethink what we mean by responsible investing

Sustainable or responsible investing has experienced huge growth over the past decade. This investment approach is anchored in environmental, social and governance principles and is known as ESG. This set of standards is designed to ensure that funds are directed toward companies that protect the environment, have a positive impact…

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A landfill tax could halt the vast amounts of healthy soil that are needlessly thrown away

UK government proposals to increase the cost of sending soil to landfill have received strong pushback from the construction industry. But there is a strong environmental case for protecting healthy soils in this way.

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Trump-Xi meeting: the key takeaways

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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became the latest battlefront in Britain’s culture war

Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture war that pits green energy against the countryside’s traditional image of food…

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Dam disasters of the 1920s made reservoirs safer – now the climate crisis is increasing risk again

One hundred years ago, a catastrophic flood carrying enormous boulders swept through part of Dolgarrog village, north Wales, destroying several homes, a bridge and the local chapel. Ten adults and six children lost their lives. The tragedy was widely reported and King George V sent a message of condolence.

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How to green your money

This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine.

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Why ‘green’ finance isn’t always as sustainable as it seems

In the wake of the 2007-08 global financial crisis, green finance has been increasingly celebrated as a way to tackle environmental challenges. Banks, investment funds and insurers have rolled out a growing range of green products, from green bonds to sustainability-linked loans. This momentum is encouraged by international environmental efforts…

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Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste

Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society.

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Hurricane Melissa is a warning – why violent storms are increasingly catching the world off guard

Hurricane Melissa is tearing through the Caribbean, bringing record-breaking wind and torrential rain to Jamaica – the island’s first ever category 5 landfall. What makes Melissa so alarming isn’t just its size and strength, but the speed with which it became so powerful. In a single day, it exploded from…

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