This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the European Commission will spend more than $600 million on research to help smallholder farmers who face deteriorating growing conditions due to climate change,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After years of delay and obfuscation, ExxonMobil is finally showing signs of giving up its fight against climate science. In the latest development, last week ExxonMobil threw a monkey wrench…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. December 12 marked the two-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the historic global accord to combat climate change. Signed by every country on the planet, the goal of the agreement…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas after 2019, it announced recently, winning praise from civil society for its “true climate leadership.” The announcement was met with whoops and sustained…
When tobacco companies faced public scrutiny about the link between cancer and smoking, the industry launched a campaign questioning the scientific evidence. Oil companies and the National Football League have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The future of carbon capture and storage in the U.S. – as well as the fate of the U.S. coal industry – may be a bleak one, due to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ExxonMobil wants justices on Massachusetts’ highest court to block an investigation by the state attorney’s office into Exxon’s corporate records. Its reason seems spurious. Corporate lawyers argue a state should…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas essential for life—animals exhale it, plants sequester it. It exists in Earth’s atmosphere in comparably small concentrations but is vital for sustaining life. CO2 is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. India’s commons—collectively owned land administered by the government—make up as much as 25 percent of the nation’s territory. The government legally owns these lands, but lacks the reach, incentive, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Erratic rainfall, extreme droughts and floods, and deterioration in water quality brought on by climate change will intensify existing water stress and water allocation challenges. By 2025, absolute water scarcity…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Visiting Brisbane in November for the International Tropical Agriculture Conference for 2017, Director General of the International Livestock Research Institute Dr. Jimmy Smith discussed with Devex a range of new and exciting programs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Protecting the environment — and our future — means we need to get our hands dirty. That’s where “regenerative agriculture” comes in. The farming practice relies on using organic composting…