Climate change: new method can more accurately attribute environmental harm to individual polluters

By Shashi Kant Yadav, Lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Gitanjali Nain Gill, Professor of Environmetal Law, Northumbria University, Newcastle

A small coastal community in Kivalina, Alaska sued several major oil and gas companies, including Exxon Mobil, in 2008. Local representatives argued that greenhouse gas emissions from these companies were contributing to the erosion of the coastline and causing irreversible damage to their village by heating the climate.

But the US Court of Appeals dismissed the claim, citing a lack of evidence linking the corporate emissions with coastal erosion.

Read complete article

~	Nepali music for an Everest-sized challenge

~	Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule

~	Somalia’s education crisis: why so few children attend school and what could be done to change that

~	The world’s longest marine heat wave upended ocean life across the Pacific

~	Teenagers no longer answer the phone: is it a lack of manners or a new trend?

~	This stone tool is over 1 million years old. How did its maker get to Sulawesi without a boat?

~	Why bolstering post-secondary education for former youth in care is a wise investment

~	Animal Farm at 80: George Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution

~	By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing

~	Getting young and old people to dance together boosts health and reduces age discrimination – new research