This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change risks continue to dominate the global economic threat register even as the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, with fresh estimates suggesting the overall bill for last year’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rivers need water — a fact that may seem ridiculously obvious, but in times of increasing water development, drought and climate change, the quantity of natural streamflow that remains in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Two centuries of burning fossil fuels has put more carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere than nature can remove. As that CO2 builds up, it traps excess…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Motivated by their success in creating a more equitable Oakland climate action plan, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the Asian Pacific Environmental Network together sought new strategies…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “This thing used to be the size of a chicken coop,” Cacique Matsulu said to me as we arrived to ACATISEMA’s new offices in Cumaribo. “Now look at it.” A Sikuani…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Humans are dismantling and disrupting natural ecosystems around the globe and changing Earth’s climate. Over the past 50 years, actions like farming, logging, hunting, development and global commerce have caused…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lot happened last year. Record temperatures rolled through the Pacific Northwest. Hawaii was hit by a blizzard. The streets of New York City flooded and wildfires raged in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cities are increasingly incorporating ideas for “green infrastructure” into their planning, but what they mean by that can be unclear and inconsistent within and across cities, according to recently published findings from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world witnessed record-breaking climate and weather disasters in 2021, from destructive flash floods that swept through mountain towns in Europe and inundated subway systems in China and the U.S.,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Companies across Asia Pacific are racing to decarbonise as consumers and investors scrutinise the carbon footprint of the corporate world. Environmental non-profit organisation CDP noted that over 3,000 firms from 21 countries…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does it reproduce so that its offspring don’t grow up in its shadow, fighting for light? The answer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Black Lives Matter protests and national uprisings this summer reinforce how anti-Blackness and structural racism are deeply rooted in the foundations of American institutions. Racist outcomes are often reproduced…