Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Royal Commission has engaged UNSW’s High Performance Architecture team to reduce the city’s temperatures and make it more sustainable.
The Royal Commission for Riyadh has…
Green revolution is locking African farmers into a system that is not designed for their benefit, but for Northern multinational corporations.
Billions of dollars spent promoting and subsidising…
The American Chemistry Council also pushed back against new global rules that will restrict the flow of plastic waste to the global south
A lobby group representing oil and chemical companies,…
Collapse of shelves would accelerate loss of Antarctic ice sheet and increase sea-level rise.
Approximately 60% of Antarctica’s ice shelves could be vulnerable to fracture, accelerating the loss of…
Africa is becoming a new COVID-19 epicenter. Unless the European Union urgently rethinks its protectionist trade policies, a sharp uptick in food insecurity will turn the COVID-19 crisis into a…
The psychological toll of climate change-fueled disasters, now compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, is mounting and the U.S. is unprepared. These are the findings of a project by the Center for…
A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.
What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown—in its causation, and in humanity’s…
Founding partner says ‘investing in the resilience of nature is investing in the resilience of the economy’.
A push to better recognise the economic value of “natural capital” – water systems,…
The Republican national convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has completely ignored the climate crisis, an omission that has disturbed…
The Trump administration has announced that it is opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development – the latest twist in a decades-long battle over the fate of this remote…
Researchers find that even exposure to levels below EU limits has an impact.
Infants exposed to even low levels of air pollution experience reduced lung function as children and teenagers,…
As wildfires burn through California and the western United States, the Gulf Coast prepares for two potential hurricanes within a 48-hour timeframe, and record high temperatures dominate the summer,…
Campaigner says decision at odds with Paris agreement to achieve net zero by 2050.
An environmental campaigner is mounting a legal challenge to the government’s decision to exclude waste…
Research also found lower levels of difficult behaviour in rich and poor neighbourhoods.
Growing up in a greener urban environment boosts children’s intelligence and lowers levels of difficult…
Hang drying clothes is a simple practice that holds nothing short of immense power and pollution-saving potential. This most humdrumiest of daily chores, in which we simply hang damp clothes over a…
There is no space for “one crisis at a time”. And evidence suggests that behavioural changes have been instrumental in reducing the spread of COVID-19. The climate crisis is no different.
A three-part plan aims to expose the industry’s efforts to conceal the scale of the climate crisis, reform laws and sway support.
Senate Democrats are set to release a 200-page plan arguing that…
During a trip to Cuba's Gardens of the Queen a few years ago, I found myself around small mangrove islands in an area called Boca Grande. Floating on clear, calm water, my travel group and I kicked…
Americans face existential challenges. The president has done nothing to help and much to make things worse.
My wife and I have been warned we may need to evacuate our cabin in the hills north of…
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