Climate scientists say it will be tough to keep global warming below 1.5℃, according to a major new UN report. Indeed, with the planet warming by roughly 0.2℃ per decade, we will probably hit that point by about 2040. Defining exactly when climate change becomes dangerous is difficult and contentious, but Keith Shine, a Regius professor of climate science explains why 1.5℃ matters to scientists.

The economics Nobel – technically the Sveriges Riksbank Prize – has gone to Paul Romer and William Nordhaus. Sergey Popov explains how both made massive contributions to the way that economists think about economic growth and why it’s so important that this growth is sustainable. It marks the end of this year’s Nobel prize season, which has once again been dominated by white faces – something Winston Morgan points out is bad for equality and society as a whole.

After winning the first round of the Brazilian presidential election, “homophobic, misogynist, racist” far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro now looks set to win the second round, too. So can he be stopped? Courtney J Campbell argues that Brazil could still be saved from a return to the dark days of military dictatorship by its poorest region – the politically charged, and traditionally leftist, northeast.

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