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. 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. 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 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. Predator species may buffer the negative impacts of climate change by mitigating against the loss of biodiversity, according to new research led by scientists in Trinity College Dublin and Hokkaido…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the course of the past year, Food Tank has released more than 70 episodes of our podcast, Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg. We’ve brought together folks from dozens of countries…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the greatest challenges for decarbonizing our economy is changing individual behaviors. Household consumption accounts for between a half to two-thirds of all carbon emissions. So changing the way…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For decades, Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in the United States have sought environmental justice as a civil right, but now, the grave disparities in environmental harms are…