气候变化

面对全球气候变化带来的种种极端天气与环境危机，悲观情绪蔓延之际，三位在大气科学、清洁能源和社区行动领域深耕的美国领导者，正用实际行动证明改变依然可能。

Our window to adapt to a warming world is narrowing quickly, according to a grim report from the IPCC. What it will take to avert the crises that unchecked planetary heating will bring? Three vice-chairs of the IPCC report explain.

面对气候变化带来的种种坏消息，人们容易感到无力和绝望。但历史证明，人类曾以《蒙特利尔议定书》成功应对臭氧层危机。科学家警告，现在仍有机会避免最坏结果，关键在于我们必须立即行动，因为我们才是自身气候命运的真正主宰。

Pope Francis’ June 2015 encyclical “Laudato Si: On care for our common home” has been praised for supporting the science on climate change. But as Johan Rockström, who’s been involved in high-level discussions between scientists and the Vatican, explains, the story of how the Pope has integrated science and religion represents a profound shift in world view.

Artist Zaria Forman travels thousands of miles to collect source material for drawings that portray the beauty and fragility of the world. Her goal? To help people experience the sublimity of these landscapes, so they’ll be inspired to protect and preserve them.

Rather than just imagine the future, what if we could walk around in it? In an installation, designer Anab Jain invites visitors to enter an apartment in the middle of the 21st century.

Some argue that we have a moral responsibility for future generations, but others ask: how do we know what they would want? Writer Charles Mann explores the confusing ethics of acting on global warming.

Johan Rockström’s theory of climate boundaries has proven so influential it’s been adopted by the Vatican. Writer John Carey digs into the theory — and why Rockström says his isn’t, actually, a doomsday message.

A scary discovery from Arctic ice researcher David Barber — that hints at wild weather to come.

The loss of polar ice may seem like an abstract concern, but it’s one that will affect all of us, no matter where we live, says glaciologist and TED Fellow Michele Koppes.