Climate change
Climate change will have a huge impact on health, via heat exposure and changes in distribution of vector-…
When looking for signs of global warming, the melting of the world’s glaciers and ice sheets is often cited…
Theoretical physicist and broadcaster Prof Jim Al-Khalili is in conversation about his debut novel, Sunfall,…
Christiana Figueres last night received the prestigious Edinburgh Medal at the Signet Library in Edinburgh…
In the sphere of climate change, 19th century Irish physicist John Tyndall (1820-1893) is a giant.
Glaciers lock up 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important part in the Earth…
We all rely on the seas for their abundant food, mineral and energy resources and yet more than 90% of the…
One of the events around climate change at the Edinburgh Science Festival (6-21 April) takes as its starting…
Malthus was right. There is not enough planet to sustain the growing human population, particularly given our…
As part of the IPCC week, the Royal Society of Edinburgh hosts a free interactive panel session on women in…
The oceans offer the potential for huge amounts of clean energy and Scotland and the UK are poised to be a…
A panel of experts will discuss ways in which the world might wean itself off fossil fuels in time to avert…