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A new supercomputer visualization from NASA provides an astounding 3D view of carbon dioxide spreading around the globe over a year.

In spite of the incoming administration’s views on climate change, American states and city mayors are continuing to show leadership on climate action. In last month’s election, Seattle, Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio voted to expand mass transit. Portland began a new municipal waste program, Miami Beach is raising roadbeds and building flood walls to hold back the rising seas. California, led by Governor Jerry Brown, has set one of the nation’s most ambitious climate targets—to reduce GHG emissions to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

And a high profile task force, chaired by Michael Bloomberg, has just recommended that the global private sector do more to disclose the risks climate change pose to their businesses, and what they’re doing to adapt. Read more about the work of this task force here.

This is a new column exploring different concepts that we use when we talk and write about space and geography.

By: Shoshana Schwebel, Research Designer 

Prime Minister Trudeau just negotiated an agreement for a pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change that meets, or exceeds, the 2030 goal of reducing.

This article and this other one typify the divides we have in our country about climate change. In order to move off our current development path, we have to discover common ground and bridge these divides on the more sustainable ways to move forward.

What if art had the power to regenerate life? One artist has found a way to help save damaged or destroyed coral reefs through sculpture. Over the course of 10 years, Jason DeCaires Taylor has perfected a pH neutral concrete recipe used in the production of underwater figures. These works not only support marine life by providing places to hide, grow, and breed, but they also sustain coral growth.

This is a new column exploring different concepts that we use when we talk and write about space and geography.

By: Shoshana Schwebel, Research Designer 

It’s pretty exciting seeing animals up close, but at what cost? Just last week, two beluga whales living in captivity died at the Vancouver Aquarium.

At the latest United Nations COP 21 Climate Summit, issues around water provided a realistic focus for moving forward on climate action. This is a brilliant strategy , since the problem with climate change is making it ‘real’ for people. Focusing on water, essential for all life, may engage people and their communities into acting now, for politicians will not act until they ‘see’ votes through an engaged constituencies.