This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biodiversity provides humanity and our economies with the resources needed to thrive. However, the planet is experiencing a great loss of biodiversity due to overfishing, deforestation and pollution. Humans and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With the fight against climate change gaining new urgency across the world, more companies and governments have been taking a hard look at the environmental impact of palm oil, one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With summer coming around and COVID-19 travel restrictions loosening all around the country, Americans are eager to return to the great outdoors after a year-long quarantine. Of course, nothing says…
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. The exceptional drought in the U.S. West has people across the region on edge after the record-setting fires of 2020. Last year, Colorado alone saw its three largest fires in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Bella Hughes remembers picking up seashells on Waimānalo Beach in Hawaiʻi as a kid. Today, she says her children pick up microplastics. “Being from an island, our resources are precious,”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Without warning, on the most bitter winter days, or the hottest of summer, smokestacks that sit idle much of the year switch online, spewing trails of climate-altering, coronavirus-exacerbating pollutants across the sky,…
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. 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. Raising huge new sums of “nature” finance to better protect the planet’s ailing biodiversity will have no significant impact unless the underlying economic rules now driving environmental losses are shifted,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giant rivers of moist air that curl off from the tropics are responsible for most of the flooding in the Western United States, and scientists say these atmospheric rivers will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In northern Michigan, across rolling sand dunes and a picturesque village situated on Lake Michigan, it is raining toxic PFAS chemicals. No, really. It is. A team of U.S. and…