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The eradication of wild poliovirus is within sight — but only if the world remains committed and financially invested, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) announced on Tuesday at a…

British scientists have once again made the commercial case for conserving wilderness. They have demonstrated that in its pristine state − mangrove swamps, wetlands, savannahs, forests and so on −…

Anthony Leiserowitz is the director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and a senior research scientist at Yale School of the Environment. An expert on public climate change and…

Every year since 1993, on March 22 the United Nations has observed World Water Day. The day “celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2 billion people currently living without access to…

An international team of environmental scientists have published a series of significant recommendations to protect, conserve and study the world’s coral reefs – the ‘canaries in the coal mine’ of…

Corporate sustainability professionals often speak of “moving the needle.” At the risk of mixing metaphors, sometimes industries really need a poke from a different kind of needle to move faster.…

Metrics matter, but they should always be plural. Focus on the speedometer, ignore the gas gauge, and you’re sure to stop short of your destination. But while the plague of…

For the past quarter-century, the Arctic has been a unique zone of cooperation among the eight countries of the high north: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Russia and the…

How does climate change impact children and families today and what might the future look like? I like what the writer Alex Steffen said: “The planetary crisis is not an issue,…

It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable that societies will either transform themselves or be…