This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The seemingly impossible task of decoupling deforestation from the palm oil industry could be achieved by raising the price of palm-based consumer goods by just 1.8 per cent, a new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We recently asked Rebecca Van Sickle, manager of 1892 consulting and PEAK’s 25th Anniversary Committee co-chair, to lead a roundtable with four PEAK members to explore how they each discovered…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the rolling hills along a rural stretch of the California coastline south of San Francisco, researchers plunged small probes into the soil last year, took samples, and sent them to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Violence, armed conflict, and natural disasters have displaced more than 65 million individuals worldwide from their homes. For the individuals living in post-conflict settings, even the most basic aspects of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Walking through twisting and turning pathways, I follow a team of three community health workers through a neighborhood in Kano, Nigeria. It’s sticky and hot as the afternoon sun beats…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Activism and charity have been transformed in the digital era. As Black Lives Matter protests across the US and globe coordinated over social media, mutual aid groups organized online to deliver…
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. If there is one thing that the events of the past year have helped to remind us of, it’s the simple fact of how interconnected our world truly is. Issues…
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. For most, the decision to leave one’s home country is a difficult one, especially when there are family ties, established careers, and cultural customs attached to a particular place. People…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented pace and scale of innovation in vaccine development. Since COVID-19 was first recognised as a public health emergency of international concern by the World…