This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Seafood is essential to food and nutritional security, providing over 3 billion people with nearly 20 percent of their animal protein. Also known as aquatic food — including plants and animals grown…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are facing a “triple planetary crisis”—climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and a human health crisis. What is the connecting thread through all these crises? Dysfunctional food systems that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Almost eight years after Typhoon Haiyan barreled into Busuanga Island in the western Philippines, the lesson it left is still etched in the mind of village leader Annabel Dela Cruz.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the U.S. recycling industry. Waste sources, quantities and destinations are all in flux, and shutdowns have devastated an industry that was already struggling. Many items…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Conserving nature” is not going well. Nearly all indicators of biological diversity are trending in the wrong direction, from habitat loss and the impacts of invasive species to extinction rates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The need for student-centered sustainability education is becoming clearer by the day. Young people who understand and can respond to changes in our natural environment and the stresses they place…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lot of energy and money has been put into denying and ignoring environmental change, but industry is slowly changing this approach in a variety of ways. Corporate leaders have actively…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The opening of Westside Park – the largest jewel on the BeltLine Emerald Necklace – has generated much excitement and is the result of years of hard work by many people and organizations. It…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. First, the bad news. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently warned that the world is already locked into at least 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming before 2050. The climate crisis…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This November, global leaders will gather at the UN COP26 to renew Paris agreement commitments to ensure countries act together to reduce emissions and limit global temperature rises. COP discussion will focus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just east of the Kenai Peninsula in south central Alaska sits Prince William Sound: an inlet full of tidewater glaciers spanning 3,800 miles of coastline and flanked by the jagged…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Laura and Jack Dangermond, founders of GIS software company Esri, donated an incredible $165 million to The Nature Conservancy. Through this contribution, The Nature Conservancy was able to buy and…