Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has a favourite food he wishes were not so closely tied to climate change. Even as he invests heavily in climate campaigns and sustainable food technologies, Gates has admitted that cheeseburgers remain his weakness, a comfort food he loves but also sees as a climate disaster. The billionaire has repeatedly spoken…
Greenland’s ice sheet holds layered climate records stretching back thousands of years. Image Credits: Google Gemini Most people are familiar with one version of the Greenland story: ice melting, seas rising, glaciers receding in time-lapse videos that make climate change seem real and immediate. That version is real, but it’s also incomplete, because underneath all…
Each spring in Kyoto arrives with a quiet anticipation. Buds swell, branches soften, and for a brief, luminous moment, cherry blossoms transform the landscape into something almost unreal. For Prof Yasuyuki Aono, this annual spectacle was not merely a cultural ritual but a lifelong pursuit of precision. A researcher at Osaka Metropolitan University, he spent…