In the lead-up to this week’s high-level Climate Conference, COP19, in Warsaw, Poland the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) released a new research ...

With the topic of peak global oil production moving more into the mainstream, you have perhaps heard of the Canadian oil sands. There, huge tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a ...

It is difficult to overstate the importance of healthy ecosystems for human well-being. Indeed, the two are so inextricably linked that the ongoing degradation of ecosystems around the world has been ...

This may seem like an odd question for a climate scientist to ask, but it is one I am constantly asked now. The typical discussion starts: “I know that the climate is changing, but hasn’t it always ...

Globally today, we are witnessing an “inexorable intensification of violence” in the world’s armed conflicts. The result is that there are currently 59.5 million refugees worldwide. And among that ...

Nele Jensch has worked for Deutsche Welle since 2007 as a photo editor and a reporter. Her articles have also been published in German newspaper Taz and magazine Freitag. In 2010, the 26-year-old ...

With a population of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometres, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to ...

The pursuit of happiness, human development and the environment are intertwined in two profound ways. First, we developed from hunters and gatherers into urbanites during a period of remarkable and ...

In the mountains of central Nara Prefecture, once the stronghold of the Yamato Dynasty that ruled Japan in the third century, there is a cluster of human-made forests that have endured for over 500 ...

Food is treated as a private good in today’s industrial food system, but it must be re-conceived as a common good in the transition toward a more sustainable food system that is fairer to food ...

The argument of many critics of the United Nations Security Council is that it isn’t effective and that it needs to be fundamentally reformed. The loudest calls for reform come from those who believe ...

In the Doge’s Palace in Venice, outside of the entrance to the Chamber of the Great Council, hangs a work of art entitled “The Last Judgment” that was painted by Palma Giovane in 1595. As they waited ...