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El Niño typically causes drought in Australia, parts of southern Asia and Indonesia. : Unsplash: Josh Withers https://unsplash.com/license

Current evidence suggests both El Niño and La Niña could change significantly over the next 70 years, which will have consequences for how they impact us.

El Nino returns

How will El Niño change in the future?

Current evidence suggests both El Niño and La Niña could change significantly over the next 70 years, which will have consequences for how they impact us.

Environment
During an El Niño there are warmer than average sea surface temperatures in the equatorial eastern Pacific. : NOAA Climate.gov CC BY 4.0

Reports of a possible ‘super El Niño’ this year might have been greatly exaggerated.

El Nino returns

Why we won’t have a super El Niño this year

Reports of a possible ‘super El Niño’ this year might have been greatly exaggerated.

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etrataenite , an iron-nickel alloy found only in meteorites, is a replacement for rare-earth minerals used in permanent magnets. : Robert M. Lavinsky, Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/?ref=openverse

Meteorites could show us the perfect chemical models we need to end the natural resource crisis — but we don’t have to leave Earth to mine them.

Space mining

Why we don’t need to go to space to mine its resources

Meteorites could show us the perfect chemical models we need to end the natural resource crisis — but we don’t have to leave Earth to mine them.

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With space transport becoming cheaper by the day, off-Earth mining is now a feasible option. : Image by NASA available at https://tinyurl.com/k2uvhc8p NASA

Private companies and governments are reaching for the stars in an effort to ease Earth-bound shortages.

Space mining

Why space is the next frontier in mining

Economy
Given the urgent need to address climate change, the imperative is not setting goals or targets, but delivering on them. : Unsplash: Harry Cunningham Unsplash Licence

To break their ‘two steps forward, one step back’ routine on climate action, the Asia-Pacific needs to start delivering on ambitious emissions targets.

State of the SDGs

What the Asia-Pacific needs to leap forward on climate action

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China continues to build power plants — permitting an average of two new planets a week last year. : Unsplash: Marko Sun Unsplash Licence

Slow efforts to decarbonise are blamed on low political will — but time is running out to transition, and a circuit breaker is needed.

State of the SDGs

Coal-fired contradictions: why climate action needs a circuit breaker

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Better cooperation between the public and private sectors can accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. : Unsplash: Guillaume de Germain Unsplash Licence

The Indo-Pacific has much to lose as global events hinder international cooperation on sustainable development, but it also shows promising examples of success.

State of the SDGs

How the Indo-Pacific can beat the SDG cash crunch

Economy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is hosting world leaders in New Delhi. : Prime Minister’s Office, Wikimedia Commons Open data (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Prime_Minister,_Shri_Narendra_Modi_at_the_G20_Summit_2015,_in_Turkey_on_November_15,_2015.jpg)

The Indian Prime Minister says a G20 strategy has driven global debt restructuring since his country assumed leadership. That’s not the full picture.

G20 primer

Why G20’s debt-relief strategy is failing

Economy
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confronts the task of reclaiming democratic values after his predecessor’s tenure undermined democracy with regressive policies. : Palácio do Planalto (Flickr) CC BY-ND 2.0

Brazil voted out the Bolsonaro government, but its impact on institutions hasn’t gone away.

Regressive laws

Lula’s mission to restore Brazilian democracy

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