Sri Lanka’s capital is transforming floating garbage patches into biodiverse wetlands that are teeming with life. But the city’s problems are far from over.
The factoid about biodiversity and Indigenous peoples spread around the world, but scientists say bad data can undermine the very causes it claims to support.
Governments have reinstated a commitment to transition away from fossil fuels in the draft of a new United Nations pact due to be adopted next month, following widespread condemnation over its previous removal.
Nations are deploying baby bonuses, subsidized childcare, and parental leave to try to reverse a rapidly declining fertility rate – largely to no avail.
The ‘Future of Egypt’ envisages turning tracts of desert into farmland to grow crops for export. But with sky-high food price inflation and a water deficit, critics doubt it is viable.
Despite climate-friendly plans, the federal government’s controversial decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline made it one of world’s biggest promoters of fossil fuel projects.
If we can’t control rising global temperatures by drastically cutting carbon emissions, could something called geo-engineering be a way to cool the planet?
In 1974 the fossilized bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton changed our understanding of evolution?
Talk of a green economy might evoke images of solar panels and carbon capture. But work to conserve and restore ecosystems is already driving economic activity.
International efforts to protect the ozone layer have been a “huge global success”, scientists have said, after revealing that damaging gases in the atmosphere were declining faster than expected.
A diet promoting plant-based protein to help the environment now has a more human argument: It may lower your risk of dying from several major diseases.
