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Dear Zaria: Do you feel like there is still hope for a viable future?

Dear Zaria: Do you feel like there is still hope for a viable future?

Do you feel like there is still hope for a viable future? Recent headlines made me lose hope. The short answer is yes. As a Black person growing up and existing within...

Law governing Bureau of Meteorology must change to reflect climate crisis, says former chief

Law governing Bureau of Meteorology must change to reflect climate crisis, says former chief

A former chief executive of the Bureau of Meteorology says the 67-year-old law that underpins Australia’s weather agency needs to be updated to bring it in line with the...

Upping the game to address environmental chaos

Upping the game to address environmental chaos

Your excellency, Ambassador Pirkka Tapiola, Chair of the Committee of Permanent Representatives  A warm welcome to the Ninth Annual Subcommittee meeting of the Committee of...

The wasted potential of garbage dumps

The wasted potential of garbage dumps

Part ofBack to the Future,fromThe Highlight, Vox’s home for ambitious stories that explain our world. About 17 miles south of downtown Houston, Texas, on the western edge of a...

Emperor penguins listed as endangered by US because of climate crisis

Emperor penguins listed as endangered by US because of climate crisis

The emperor penguin, the tallest and bulkiest of all the world’s penguins, has been officially declared a threatened species by the US government due to the existential risk...

Virtually all children on Earth will face more frequent heatwaves by 2050

Virtually all children on Earth will face more frequent heatwaves by 2050

The climate crisis is also a children’s rights crisis: one in four children globally are already affected by the climate emergency and by 2050 virtually every child in every...

How Digital Technology Is Helping Decode the Sounds of Nature

How Digital Technology Is Helping Decode the Sounds of Nature

Digital technology is enabling scientists to detect and interpret the sounds of species as diverse as honeybees, peacocks, and elephants. In an e360 interview, geographer Karen...

Are We Seeing Glimmers of a Healthier, Even Regenerative, Economic System?

Are We Seeing Glimmers of a Healthier, Even Regenerative, Economic System?

Inherent in the theme of SB'22 San Diego, “Recenter and Accelerate,” is the ability to not only draw from past success but also leave behind what isn't working. Rather than...

Antimicrobial resistance: a global threat

Antimicrobial resistance: a global threat

Third Global High-level Ministerial Conference on AMR - Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 24-25 Nov 2022 AMR in the Environment: Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean -...

The story of the purple tomato — and why its success is a win for GM foods

The story of the purple tomato — and why its success is a win for GM foods

The first genetically modified (GM) food ever made commercially available to the public was a tomato, invented in the US in 1994. Since then, a number of different genetically...

Cop27 live: nations push for crucial climate deal as clock ticks down

Cop27 live: nations push for crucial climate deal as clock ticks down

Cop27 Cop27 live: nations push for crucial climate deal as clock ticks down After two weeks of negotiations, an agreement vital to the future of earth is yet to be...

More than 110 experts raise alarm over WHO’s ‘weak’ PFAS limits for drinking water

More than 110 experts raise alarm over WHO’s ‘weak’ PFAS limits for drinking water

More than 110 scientists and regulators worldwide are raising a public alarm over what they label “weak” PFAS drinking water limits proposed by the World Health Organization,...