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As we kicked off 2020, we industrious humans of the Anthropocene had successfully completed a run of the five hottest […]

“The only plots against us are within our own walls,—the danger is within,—the enemy is within. We must war with […]

In 1896 Svante Arrhenius built a CO2 climate model; 99 years later the IPCC noted that CO2 remained the most […]

“The decade that just ended is clearly the warmest decade on record. Every decade since the 1960s clearly has been […]

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” […]

When friends asked me why I left my job as a reporter in Beijing to move to Sydney, I would always […]

Accepting the natural world is breakable took us centuries. Accepting we ourselves could break it took even longer. Thomas Jefferson, […]

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded, we published submissions about from our readers on NewPhilosopher.com in the hope that it could […]

Look up and you see the colour that defines our world. At least, our world today. It’s a blue that […]

#1, 2009: Statement on Climate Change from 18 Scientific Associations “Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change […]

Interviewee / Photographer: Jason deCaires Taylor Interviewer: Zan Boag Zan Boag: You’re dealing on such a grand scale here that’s […]

“O! that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw!” Hamlet, […]

Interviewee: James Thornton Interviewer: Zan Boag ClientEarth is an environmental law charity that you founded 12 years ago, now with […]

“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and […]

“It’s real … And the great irony and tragedy of our time, is a lot of the general public thinks […]

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 per cent […]

“Small steps will no longer do. The biggest steps need to be taken by those with the biggest boots.” – […]

Dilemma: I like to think that I care for the environment and for the future of the planet, and I’m […]

“Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” – […]

What does climate change mean to humans? Here are six thinkers’ views on the climate. The Physicist Stephen Hawking 1942 […]

Interviewee: Charley Lineweaver Interviewer: Tim Dean Tim Dean: Most people are probably familiar with just one atmosphere: our own. How […]

When the planets In evil mixture to disorder wander, What plagues and what portents, what mutiny, What raging of the […]

Image: Blind monks examining an elephant, Hanabusa Itchō, 1652–1724. Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXVI: Change. […]

Image: Democritus and Heraclitus, Richard Gaywood, ca. 1630-1680, The Met Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award […]

Svante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1903. Arrhenius was the first […]

A climate of mind Anyone who cares about climate change has to be tired of the vitriolic tirades that masquerade […]

Food for thought from the New Philosopher library. We discover books that can change the way you view the world. […]

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov […]

Narda Lepes is an Argentinian TV producer, chef, and author. What is your demon? Trying to solve problems that are […]

Charley Lineweaver Charley Lineweaver is the convenor of ANU’s Planetary Science Institute and holds a joint appointment as an associate […]