In India's scorching summer heat, the ancient practice of chilling water in terracotta pots is inspiring new trends – from cooling towers to screens for buildings.

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Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are climate change scenarios of projected socioeconomic global changes up to 2100 as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on climate change in 2021. They are used to derive greenhouse gas emissions scenarios with different climate policies. The SSPs provide narratives describing alternative socio-economic developments. These storylines are a qualitative description of logic relating elements of the narratives to each other. In terms of quantitative elements, they provide data accompanying the scenarios on national population, urbanization and GDP. The SSPs can be quantified with various Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to explore possible future pathways both with regards to socioeconomic and climate pathways.

Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating the need for expensive fossil fuels and boosting crop production. But by allowing them to pump throughout the day, the new technology is drying up aquifers around the globe.

Long Now Member Natalia Vasquez shares her vividly visioned speculative future, and invites us to envision our own.With thousands of members from all around ...

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By James Thurlow and Faaiqa Hartley Climate change poses significant challenges for global economic development and food systems, particularly for impoverished nations and vulnerable populations. Policymakers are facing a daunting task of designing effective policies to address climate risks and making long-term investment decisions under growing uncertainty. Ideally, governments would have access to advance information […]

The Paris Agreement's aspirational 1.5 degree temperature target has given further impetus to efforts to imagine (and seek to govern) transformative a…

Background The rise in temperature associated with anthropogenic climate change does not seem to elicit a great deal of concern […]

Everything you wanted to know about our changing climate but were too afraid to ask.

The world just experienced its warmest September – climate scientists say rising CO2 levels paired with an El Niño could make 2023 the hottest year on record.

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The imaginary worlds of climate fiction can help ready us for whatever comes next.