This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Renee Salas, a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been thinking about the connections between climate change and public health for a long time. In her emergency room in Boston,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the International Day for Biological Diversity, we caught up with Dave Hodson, senior scientist at CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, to discuss why conservation may be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Investments in nature-based solutions must triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2050, a new report urges, warning of irreversible damage to economies, the planet and humanity if the status quo…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most expensive Wall Street shareholder battles on record could signal a big shift in how hedge funds and other investors view sustainability. Exxon Mobil Corp. has been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A recent report published by the venture capital firm AgFunder finds that 2020 was a record-breaking year for investments in agricultural and food technologies (AgriFoodTech). Investments made in the fiscal year 2020 were estimated…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hurricanes and tropical storms are estimated to cost the U.S. economy more than US$50 billion yearly in damage from winds and flooding. And as these storms travel across the Atlantic,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seven of the United Kingdom’s 10 wettest years on record have occurred since 1998. Its wettest winter in history came in 2013, and the next wettest in 2015. In a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Western U.S. appears headed for another dangerous fire season, and a new study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During a panel discussion organized by Food Tank, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), experts discuss what it will take…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hurricane Laura blew up quickly as it headed for the Louisiana coast, intensifying from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in less than 24 hours. By the time it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The researchers examined more than 170 published studies and analyzed the influence of systemic inequalities on ecology and evolution. The paper in Science calls on the scientific community to focus on environmental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the study in Nature Climate Change, scientists quantified the costs of climate change impacts and of death and illness from air pollution. They found that concrete production causes about…