If global carbon emissions continue to rise at their current rate, humanity will eventually be left with no other option than a costly, world war-like mobilisation, scientists warned this week. “It’s ...

The late geographer Bernard Nietschmann once observed that “more indigenous territory has been claimed by maps than by guns”. Whether or not you agree that more can be taken back with maps, it is hard ...

The steady urbanization of Australia’s population is having an unexpectedly negative impact upon native wildlife left behind in wilderness areas, a leading conservationist has warned. Dr. Barry Traill ...

The UK will close all coal-fired power plants by 2025, the first major country to do so, but will fill the capacity gap largely with new gas and nuclear plants rather than cleaner alternatives. The ...

When the climate summit opened in Paris on Monday, the mood was overwhelmingly pessimistic — largely about the current state of the global environment. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon set the tone when ...

We humans have been able to blunt Nature’s fangs. We take care of individuals who would not be able to survive on their own — the elderly, the sick, the wounded — and we’ve been doing so for a long ...

It is still unclear what circumstances led to the deaths of 39 people who were found in a refrigerated trailer in a lorry park outside London. It is not known how these 31 men and eight women, some of ...

This article is featured as part of the United Nations University Sustainable Development Explorer. UNU’s work is uniquely comprehensive, spanning the full breadth of the Sustainable Development Goals ...

In much of international development literature, Africa’s sub-Saharan region represents a prolonged development crisis. Despite the recent remarkable development gains by some sub-Saharan African ...

I used to think the truth would set us free. Like many who care about the environment, I spent years thinking that information would lead to change. So I wrote reports, gave speeches, even testified ...

The term “the commons” is typically defined as land or resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community. If you work in the area of environmental conservation then, no matter where you are ...

While on my last summer holiday, I was surprised to come across an old friend parked on a side street in Florence, Italy, near the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore (Il Duomo). It was the Girasole ...