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Why Traffic Will Cancel Christmas This Year
“If the mountain will not come to Mohamed, Mohamed must go to the mountain.” In like manner, if…
Climate Change And The Impact On Agriculture
We would like to thank our generous sponsors for making this article possible. How is climate change and…
A New Source Of Sustainable Food
Rameshwaram is located in the State of Tamil Nadu in India. It is also known as Pamban Island,…
The Biggest Threat To Our Oceans Is That We’ve Taken Them For Granted
‘Most of the people on the planet … think the ocean is a problem for them. They fear…
Three Things Jokowi Could Do Better To Stop Forest Fires And Haze In Indonesia
Early in Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s first term, Indonesia experienced some of the worst forest fires and…
Amazon Fires Explained: What Are They, Why Are They So Damaging, And How Can We Stop Them?
Imagine a rainforest at dawn – the tall canopy laden with dripping ferns and orchids, tree trunks covered…
Amazon Rainforests That Were Once Fire-Proof Have Become Flammable
The Amazon rainforest is described as the planet’s lungs for good reason. So much carbon is locked up…
Earth Is Speaking Back To Us With Alphabets!
In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam…
The World Worries A Lot But Not Enough For Real Problems
UN fears that food aid will not arrive in time to help people of ravaged countries. Up to…
The 11 Hottest Places On Earth
Summer is often a welcome season after a chilly winter, but there are some extreme places on Earth…
Is Sydney’s Hot Day Runs A Pattern For Its Future
Sydney is hot. Well technically, it’s persistently warm and lacking cool outbreaks, but this run of weather is…
Is A 100-Year Global Record Enough To Convince Naysayers?
Average global temperature was 1.07C hotter – beating last month’s previous record increase. The global temperature in March…
How Chile’s Solar Ambition Begins Sky High
Towering 200 metres above the desert, the Atacama 1 will harvest the sun’s energy from a surrounding field…
The Year That Was About Environment & Energy, Finally
Environmental news, as a rule, doesn’t deal in triumphs. So the sight of leaders holding their arms aloft…
Why Cities And Cars Are Soon To Get A Divorce
Last month, Oslo became the first major city to announce ambitions to go car-free by 2019, pledging a…
How Can Climate Talks In Paris Impact The Rest Of Us
Drought has been deadly for indigenous people in Colombia’s desert peninsula, underscoring a global crisis: People will be…
The Mystery Of Asia’s Pollution Haze
A haze has periodically wafted over South-east Asia for 20 years. But despite rising public health concern, the…
Is Your City Making You Fat? How Urban Planning Can Address The Obesity Epidemic
New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and attention.…
Stop Detaching A City’s Life & Fate With The Planet’s
Back in the 1960s, the influential urban planner and journalist Jane Jacobs put American cities under the microscope.…
The Top 10 Grandest American Dams To See
Reservoir creating. Electricity producing. Flood preventing. To tweak a song title from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific,” there…
8 Best Food Cities In The World
Travelers love to eat–that’s why every year, as part of our Readers’ Choice Awards survey, we ask our…