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This was a rough week in climate news. On Tuesday, Donald Trump signed an order undoing the United States’ strict emission standards. Without American commitment, the Paris climate deal's ambitious goals to curb global warming seem increasingly out of reach.
Climate change is clearly no hoax for the world’s most environmentally vulnerable nations. Despite Pakistan’s toxic smog, China is investing heavily in its development of coal plants. And in Bangladesh, the daily suffering caused by cyclones and erosion is real indeed, as
this Bangladeshi woman explains. If a plan to relocate the country’s Rohingya migrants to a flood-prone island goes forward, refugees will be on the frontlines of the world's environmental crisis.
Read this climate coverage and more from this week, including this story on how Argentinean scientists discovered a frog that glows in the dark, on The Conversation Global.
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Environment + Energy
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Fahad Saeed, King Abdulaziz University
Massive new coal plants planned for Pakistan will further harm the environment in a country already suffering the effects of climate change. Solar energy is a clear alternative.
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Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, United Nations University
Meet Bhokal, who has already lost so much due to environmental disasters, and who needs the Paris agreement to be a success.
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Politics + Society
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Ashraful Azad, University of Chittagong
The idea of relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote flood-prone island would set a bad precedent for managing human rights crises.
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Science + Technology
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María Gabriela Lagorio, University of Buenos Aires
Scientists in Argentina have discovered a frog that glows in moonlight and at twilight.
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