This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bella Hughes remembers picking up seashells on Waimānalo Beach in Hawaiʻi as a kid. Today, she says her children pick up microplastics. “Being from an island, our resources are precious,”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Without warning, on the most bitter winter days, or the hottest of summer, smokestacks that sit idle much of the year switch online, spewing trails of climate-altering, coronavirus-exacerbating pollutants across the sky,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By now you’ve probably heard of COP26 – the shorthand name for the next major UN climate summit, rescheduled for November in Glasgow after being delayed a year by the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The research – published ahead of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought on 17 June 2021 – examines recent and projected climate change impacts on water security across the world’s drylands…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Erica Donnelly-Greenan has seen some disturbing items in the stomachs of remote seabirds: bottle caps and even toy army men in the bellies of albatross, for example. The risks of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mounting livestock numbers could put the world’s grasslands on track to become an anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions source, according to a Nature Communications paper by international researchers. Grasslands, the planet’s most prevalent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I started my garden last year, I was excited to start digging into the soil at my new home, to pull weeds and plant tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers. What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Weather-related events in 2020 displaced residents more than 1.7 million times in the United States—almost double the number from 2019—as reported today by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. Hundreds of thousands of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The exceptional drought in the U.S. West has people across the region on edge after the record-setting fires of 2020. Last year, Colorado alone saw its three largest fires in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even as fierce debate on plastic pollution and single-use packaging continues in the Philippines, it is vital to address the lack of disposal facilities and stop the leakage of plastic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Lumber prices are up more than 500 percent in some areas, and people are even poaching trees from public forests for home projects, but this late-pandemic surge in lumber demand is a short-term threat…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Raising huge new sums of “nature” finance to better protect the planet’s ailing biodiversity will have no significant impact unless the underlying economic rules now driving environmental losses are shifted,…