The turbulent globe: Resources and climate change in the background
The conflicts we see today may have many causes, but the fight over resources and the consequences of climate change are ever more relevant.
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The new Infrastructure Strategy is not…strategic
Will the Government’s new spending and planning priorities, as seen in the Infrastructure Strategy coupled with the recent spending review, actually help make British citizens and communities more resilient in the difficult times we are moving into?
Conservation Innovations: How Sustained Resistance Is Saving One of the Earth’s Most Critical Rainforests From Corporate Greed
As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.
Greening the Sahara: For a Nourishing and Regenerative Algeria
Algeria has everything it needs to become a great nurturing nation again: sunlight, water (rare but sufficient), vast lands, available hands, powerful knowledge, and deep faith. What it needs now is a shift in perspective, a coalition for life, a regenerative national strategy.
Inside the Indigenous ‘land back’ movement in Colombia
Sharing a border with Ecuador and Peru, the southern Colombian department of Putumayo takes its name from the Quechua term for “gushing river.” For some, its landscapes are a sacred doorway to the Amazon rainforest, a world unfathomably greater than the human. For others, however, this land looks more like oilfields and military bases, optimized waterflood assets and strategic trafficking corridors.
What My Environmental Studies Students Taught Me About Building Community During Crisis
With people and places as a lifeline, we can avoid losing what we hold dearest and protect this country and our communities forever more. I believe one thing to be true: We are stronger together. And we are not alone.
No safety net: Insurance starts to go away
The increasing costs of climate-change linked disasters is pushing the insurance industry to the brink.
1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
There is no room for doubt: Earth is getting hotter. The question now is how hot will it get?
Detergent pods are only the start of clothing’s microplastic pollution problem
Perhaps the most holistic solution would be to regulate and limit the use of plastics for clothing and laundry applications altogether.
All that plastic in the ocean is a climate change problem, too
When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “garbage patches” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics.
A Poison Like No Other: Excerpt
If you were to somehow instantly remove all the particles from ocean waters and sediments, they’d live on by transferring from gut to gut. Everything eats, everything gets eaten, and microplastics go along for the ride.
What scientists have learned from 20 years of microplastics research
At the broadest level, Thompson, other scientists, and environmental advocates are supportive of measures to limit overall plastic production and ban the most problematic categories of plastic, both of which would indirectly reduce the generation of microplastics.