Graeme Taylor has won a bronze medal in the 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards for A Paramedic’s Tales. He is also the author of Evolution’s Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation of Our World, which won an IPPY gold medal in 2009.
There are no simple solutions to complex problems like climate change. But there have been times in the past when the world has come together to try to fix an environmental crisis.
Australia’s 2030 emissions target is half the US and UK benchmarks. It has resisted joining the two-thirds of countries who have pledged net zero emissions by 2050. And instead of phasing out coal, it’s committed to digging for more.
A UN climate summit in Glasgow will pressure world leaders to stop burning fossil fuels, stabilize global temperatures, and share money to adapt to increasingly extreme weather.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services has identified the main drivers of biodiversity loss: changes in land and sea use; exploitation of natural resources; climate change; pollution; and invasion of alien species.
State government commitments for 2030 have put Australia within reach of meeting global expectations on tackling the climate crisis, but it will fall short unless the Morrison government steps up, a new analysis has found.
When farmers abandon their land, should we just let nature take its course? As ecologists meet to discuss the threat to global biodiversity, some believe that accepting chaos is the best approach.
A new report shows Canada is trailing behind other wealthy countries when it comes to cutting carbon emissions, and outlines concrete steps that can be taken to help the world limit warming to the 1.5 C goal set by the Paris Agreement.
What is arguably the world’s most important satellite will go into orbit on Monday from California. Landsat-9 is the continuation of a series of Earth-observing spacecraft stretching back almost 50 years.
According to George Monbiot, it’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposed.
China will end its support for new coal power projects overseas, president Xi Jinping told the UN General Assembly. China has been the biggest public financer of foreign coal, particularly in rapidly-growing Asian economies, but has slowed down recently.
The decline in the diversity of our food, and the fact that so many foods have become endangered, didn’t happen by accident: it is an entirely human-made problem.
Almost 90% of the $540bn in global subsidies given to farmers every year are “harmful”, a UN report has found. This support damages people’s health, fuels the climate crisis, destroys nature, and drives inequality by excluding smallholder farmers.
