Environment

The unseen 'slow violence' that affects millions

2021-02-08

Not all violence is fast. Hidden in plain sight across society, there is a kind of harm that happens too slowly to see, says Richard Fisher.

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What if all viruses disappeared?

2020-06-22

If all viruses disappeared, the world would be very different — and not necessarily for the better. But what exactly would happen?

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Nature Is Our Best Antiviral

2020-05-18

Many countries are already demonstrating how we can build stronger bonds between nature, our economy, and our health.

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Greening Our Cities

2019-09-28

Cities are the worlds leading source of both economic growth and greenhouse-gas emissions, and those contributions will continue to grow as more of the world...

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Is education standing up to the task of climate action?

2019-09-19

A mid todays climate crisis, the global education community is faced with the reality that it has done too little too late.

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What would happen if all the world’s trees disappeared?

2019-09-15

As the Amazon fires continue to burn, Rachel Nuwer asks: how dependent are we on the survival of forests?

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Your Poison, My Profit

2019-09-02

In an interview, Makram Ouaiss says Lebanese politicians may provoke a new trash crisis to reach their favored waste solutions.

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How Blockchain Can Win the War Against Plastic Waste

2019-08-15

Start-ups are making incremental use of blockchain to reduce plastic waste, but the technology’s power to drive real change is yet to be realised.

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A New Direction for the Planet’s Sake

2019-07-28

according to the sustainability organization Global Footprint Network, humanity will have used up the Earths resource budget for the entire year.

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The Middle East’s Authoritarians Have Come for Conservationists

2019-04-01

Environmental activists pushing for clean water, restrictions on poaching, and action on climate change have faced prison—or worse.

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Feeding the Ten Billion

2019-02-06

Our diets are becoming less healthy, and global food production is increasingly unsustainable. A new report suggests that the planet can sustainably provide a healthy diet for ten billion people in the future...

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Nourishing Cities with Nature

2018-06-14

As rates of urbanization increase globally, city planners are working to reverse decades of reckless growth by returning nature to the built environment

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What is sustainable finance?

2018-04-19

Environmental, social and governance issues are now a major factor in investment

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Poisoning the Earth and Our Health

2016-05-29

Why the world must find an antidote to the deadly menace of lead acid batteries

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From the Front Lines of Climate Change

2016-05-11

Securing an agreement in Paris was just the first step on a long road towards protecting the global climate and the world’s most vulnerable countries

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