This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders, a report published on Monday by Global Witness, an international human rights group, highlighted. For the second year in a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After Superstorm Sandy hit New York in 2012, the city and state spent billions recovering from the storm and building new storm surge protections for its subway system. Seven years after the storm, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People’s views about climate change, from how worried they are about it affecting them to how willing they are to do something about it, have shifted in developed countries around…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the total global population continues to rise and economic growth drives a transition towards more resource-intensive diets, a growing number of consumers are concerned with how to reduce the environmental impact of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Western U.S. is experiencing another severe fire season, and a recent study shows that even high mountain areas once considered too wet to burn are at increasing risk as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Air pollution was responsible for 9,700 more deaths in 2018 than it was in 2016, according to a new paper by economists at Carnegie Mellon. The researchers, Karen Clay and Nicholas…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past two years have witnessed increasingly vocal calls for rapid decarbonization of the global economy through a clean energy transition. A growing list of multibillion-dollar climate disasters in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. San Diego Zoo’s Jenna Stacy-Dawes knows all too well the urgency of her research. Reticulated giraffes across the regions in northern Kenya that she studies have declined up to 70…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nitrogen use efficiency, an indicator that describes how much fertilizer reaches a harvested crop, has decreased by 22 percent since 1961, according to new findings by an international group of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. On Sept. 8, 2021, the White House released a report…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Eighty-five years ago, on April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allocating US$10 million for “Emergency Conservation Work.” This step launched one of the New Deal’s…