Tipping points

DRC’s 52 new oil blocks threaten vast areas of rainforest, peatlands, people, and the planet

“The Worst Place in the World to Drill for Oil”

Aug 13, 2025 • Chris Lang

For an economics that takes the climate science seriously

In 2018, the economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics. The prize was awarded to Nordhaus for “for integrating climate change into…

Feb 5, 2020 • Chris Lang

What if forests started dying because of climate change? Oh wait… they already are

Little progress seems to have been made at the UN climate negotiations in Bonn over the past two weeks.

May 24, 2012 • Chris Lang

What if the Amazon tips from a carbon sink to a source?

In the past few years, the Amazon has faced two “one in a century” droughts.

Feb 17, 2011 • Chris Lang

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