How to loosen India’s grip on coal without abandoning the millions...
India must step away from coal while not leaving millions of people in coal-mining regions worse off.
India is the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases,...
Why climate intelligence should be on every business agenda
Without climate intelligence, organizations are effectively wrapping their plans around a future that might never happen.
Has the focus on COVID-19 mitigation desensitized business leaders...
An initiative in Sumatra leads the way in saving endangered pangolins...
The illegal trade in pangolins and slow lorises in Indonesia has gained a lot of media attention, yet that has had only a small...
A diversity of flowering plants is key to bees and bumblebees
Bees and bumblebees have fallen on hard times, which has raised alarm that these vital pollinators might disappear from gardens, fields and meadows in...
Study in Denmark links PFBA chemicals with severe COVID
Researchers think they’ve found a link between patients experiencing severe COVID-19 and their exposure to PFBA.
Researchers in Denmark say they think they’ve demonstrated a...
Study finds less smoking in green neighborhoods
“Nature-based interventions could be prescribed to assist individuals attempting to give up smoking,” says lead author Leanne Martin.
Now there’s a new reason to protect...
The legal trade in wildlife poses pandemic risks too
“It seems unlikely that diseases are spread through illegal channels only.”
Most new pathogens affecting people originate in animals, including the coronavirus that causes Covid-19....
Gabon, Costa Rica call for new UN protocol on wildlife trade
Presidents Bongo and Alvarado want an illegal wildlife trade protocol that’s equal to existing UN measures on munitions or human trafficking.
The United Nations Commission...
Animal-human conflicts are on the rise in Africa, but there’s a...
Most areas at especially high risk of animal-human conflicts are in East and West Africa, according to researchers.
Africa is a vast continent with plenty...
Development of a strategic framework for an alien and invasive biomass...
A new initiative to develop a strategic framework for an alien and invasive biomass economy in South Africa was launched in June and a...
Industrial Blyth reflects on renewable energy through art
When the ships and coal are gone, a new shared identity emerges, whether welcomed or mourned. The “Energies” exhibit seeks to understand it.
Blyth was...
The Amazon is no longer a carbon sink. It’s a ‘carbon...
Areas where deforestation is 30% or more show carbon emissions 10 times higher than where deforestation is lower.
The rainforests of the Amazon have long...
