24+ min ago  (985+ words) Increasingly destructive floods also re-ignite debate on how we can make communities more resilient. Should we rely solely on traditional infrastructure like dikes and dams? In many regions, traditional infrastructure is agingand becoming increasingly insufficient, especially due to climate change....

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (212+ words) Zeenat Khan'writes from Maryland, USA The Vermont log cabin had no internet, or television, and on the first morning as I looked out the window I heard no sound except the wind whistling through the" Once, Britain was a landscape…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (387+ words) There is a familiar pattern that emerges from the conversations around us. Experts speak with confidence. Problems are clearly defined. Solutions seem to have a one-to-one correspondence with those problems. And all of us are just peeping out of the…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1131+ words) Environmental law is not a monolithic undertaking but a work in progress. It evolves. Klaus Bosselmann, emeritus professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, recounts a transformative instance at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in his…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (447+ words) What does Big Ag have to do with the Strait of Hormuz? A lot, actually, when you consider that almost every so-called efficiency that industrial'agriculture'relies on to operate flows through this waterway. And now it is closed, threatening global food…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (205+ words) Vikas Parasram Meshram is a journalist In the current scenario, when the worldviews of Indigenous communities appear to offer the most coherent understanding of what this Earth requires, it may be advantageous to remember some things" The US and Israel's…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (656+ words) A brief examination of just one category'the colorful and large assembly of'river gods, goddesses, and sacred animals'shows that our ancestors in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe maintained relationships with their own specific water deities. Such reverence and respect…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (739+ words) Southern California's Salton Sea was once a'resort playground, with sunny'beaches, celebrities'and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and '60s. Today, those'resorts are long gone, replaced by a drying and increasingly toxic landscape. As the lake shrinks, wind blowing…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (457+ words) The planet's climate system has turned erratic. Scientific reports over the past 24 months signal trouble ahead as forecasts become impossible with a helter-skelter system. It's almost like the planet is regurgitating the anthropogenic (human) input of the past couple hundred…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (914+ words) Bill Rees'likes to say that'ecological footprint analysis'began with an epiphany'when he was 10 years old. Sitting down to lunch on his grandparents" Ontario farm with relatives he had worked with that morning, the sweaty kid realized he had played a small…...