This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United States and Mexico are tussling over their dwindling shared water supplies after years of unprecedented heat and insufficient rainfall. The Colorado River Basin. U.S. Geological Survey Sustained drought…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The emergency rooms in Barcelona were collapsing under the pressure. Hundreds of patients were arriving in desperate need as they struggled to breathe, while intensive care units struggled to cope…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biodiversity provides humanity and our economies with the resources needed to thrive. However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. Humans and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tropospheric and surface ozone pollution pose significant threats to global crop production and food security, but farmers are largely unaware of its impact on agriculture and damage to ecosystems, say…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The La Sal Mountains rise like ungainly totems above the red rock desert outside Moab, Utah. From afar the forested slopes and barren, rock-strewn peaks have none of the splendor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores more than any time in recent history how important it is to protect public health. Yet, as countries race to develop a coronavirus vaccine, another everyday…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If any bioregion is well-suited to streak towards a net-zero carbon emissions economy, it would seem to be Cascadia. British Columbia, Washington and Oregon set some of North America’s first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The coronavirus pandemic, suspected of originating in bats and pangolins, has brought the risk of viruses that jump from wildlife to humans into stark focus. These leaps often happen at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part three in a multi-part series highlighting successes of Clean Energy Districts (CED) and policies to make CEDs “universal local” institutions. Read part one, part two, part four, and part five. Clean Energy…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have heard about it all before: rising temperatures, failing crops resulting in food insecurity, the melting ice caps – these are all part of the narrative of climate change.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the fight against climate change gaining new urgency across the world, more companies and governments have been taking a hard look at the environmental impact of palm oil, one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife. COVID-19, SARS and Ebola all started this way. The COVID-19 global pandemic has drawn new attention to how…