This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are many reasons people fail to act in environmentally friendly ways. Inertia, for some. Fatalism, for others. Then there’s the difficulty of fully grasping the long-term consequences of our actions. New…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. India ranks third in terms of absolute levels of carbon emissions after China and the United States. In a business as usual scenario, by 2030, emission levels are predicted to reach more than 4.4…
High-quality jobs, affordable places to live, a thriving urban culture, and a healthy human and natural environment can all be part of circular cities. This conversation between public and private…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale. In October this year, weather researchers in Utah measured the lowest temperature…
Regulations are quickly changing, with far-reaching implications for the future of electrification. Our experts give a crash course. Speakers: Sara Baldwin | Director Of Electrification Policy | Energy Innovation Vincent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Record-breaking fires over the past decade suggest the western U.S. has entered a new era of megafires. Fire itself is not the problem – it has been characteristic of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes to spend US$16 billion plugging old oil and gas wells and cleaning up abandoned mines. But there’s no authoritative measure of how many of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is upending people’s lives around the world, but when droughts, floods or sea level rise force them to leave their countries, people often find closed borders and little…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most Americans take access to clean drinking water for granted. Most Americans — but not all. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2018 National Center for Environmental Assessment study, people living…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the late 16th century, hundreds of bandits on horseback stormed through the countryside of Ottoman Anatolia raiding villages, inciting violence and destabilizing the sultan’s grip on power Four hundred…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems IPES-Food, in collaboration with etc. group, recently published a report articulating two possible futures for the global food system. The report, A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This story is part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative. For more information, go to https://pulitzercenter.org/connected-coastlines-initiative. A preview occurred on July 31, 2014, when a nasty green…