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Riot Games have been teasing the latest Valorant Agent for weeks, and she’s finally here in the form of Astra, the galactic Controller ready to cause some chaos.  Riot Games love to tease the Valorant fanbase. Yoru was one of the game’s most hyped Agents to date thanks to all the little snippets that players caught glimpses of online. With little packets of information regarding Agent 15 dropping all throughout January, the newest addition to the roster has finally been revealed. Meet Astr...

Through the chaos that was 2020, scientists continued to dig into how human activity is altering the climate and vice versa. Last week, a group of 57 leading researchers presented 10 of their most important new findings to the United Nations in the hopes that they will help shape climate policy moving forward. "This series is a critical part of our mission to get the latest science to decision-makers in an accessible format to help accelerate transitions to sustainability," Wendy Broadgate, Glo...

Op-Ed: Collapseologists are warning humanity that business-as-usual will make the Earth uninhabitable Christopher Ketcham and Jeff Gibbs © (Photo illustration by Nicole Vas/Los Angeles Times; John Antczak/Associated Press) (Photo illustration by Nicole Vas/Los Angeles Times; John Antczak/Associated Press) Hundreds of scientists, writers and academics from 30 countries sounded a warning to humanity in an open letter published in the Guardian in December: Policymakers and the r...

These included: Emissions from thawing permafrost is likely to be worse than expected Deforestation is degrading the tropical carbon sink Climate Change will severely exacerbate the water crisis Climate change can profoundly affect our mental health Governments are not yet seizing the opportunity for a for a green recovery from COVID-19 “The impacts of climate change have the potential to be as abrupt and far-reaching as the current pandemic. Recent research presented in this report shows tha...

 E-Mail STOCKHOLM: With impacts from climate change threatening to be as abrupt and far-reaching in the coming years as the current pandemic, leading scientists have released a compilation of the 10 most important insights on the climate from the last year to help inform collective action on the ongoing climate crisis. In a report presented today to Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), report authors outlined some of 2020...

Meltwater from the Laohugou No. 12 glacier flows though Chinas Qilian Mountains on Sept. 27, 2020. (CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters) Eric Holthaus experiences climate change as a wound, a rending in the fabric of society and ecology. For Holthaus, addressing climate change is a moral imperative because of its ecological and social implications. He is not alone in this, of course; for nearly five years, Holthaus’s Twitter profile prominently featured a quote from Pope Francis’ “La...

A trio of active equity funds based on environmental and social themes has been unveiled by BNY Mellon Investment Management, further underlining what is likely to be a year of multiple ESG-themed fund launches.

Yoru is joining Valorants Agent roster in Episode 2, with the Japanese duelist set to take Future Earth by storm with his invisible antics.

22 December 2020 A recent report from Future Earth has provided important insights into how COVID19 has impacted Australian emissions, and how much danger there is in a ‘gas-fired recovery’ instead of a green, climate-focused recovery. The 2020 ‘Global Carbon Budget’ report highlights the stunning fact that COVID19 will cause a drop in global fossil CO2 emissions of 2.4 gigatonnes, resulting a total yearly sum of approximately 34 gigatonnes. This is 7% lower than the total emissions in ...

Credit: N/A The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and Future Earth are initiatives that are driven by visions of creating a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient world. WCRP coordinates international climate science to address key research areas that are either too large or too complex to be tackled by a single nation, agency, or scientific discipline. Future Earth develops the knowledge and tools that government, communities, and companies need to meet the United Nations Sustainable...