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The #Kerala #flood #crisis is a timely reminder that #climate #change is expected to increase the frequency and magnitude of severe #flooding across the world.

Cities , Environment , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Transport / 07/16/2018

Nairobi is planning car-free days. They could bring many benefits

Haneen Khreis, Texas A&M University and Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Australian Catholic University Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, is the second most congested city in the world. To reduce congestion, Nairobi County has proposed car-free Wednesdays and Saturdays in two of the busiest parts of the city. Wit

Data & Reports , Environment , Featured , Health , Sustainable Development / 06/14/2018

Protecting young Indonesian hearts from tobacco

Putu Ayu Swandewi Astuti, University of Sydney and Becky Freeman, University of Sydney The world’s second-largest market for tobacco after China, Indonesia is home to 100 million smokers. Smoking kills more than 200,000 Indonesians a year. The death threat also looms over its young generation. A f

Business , Environment , Resources , Solutions , Sustainable Development , Waste / 05/16/2018

Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong

Josh Lepawsky Waste arises ubiquitously, but unevenly, throughout the lives of electronics, not only when users discard their devices. No amount of post-consumer recycling can recoup the waste generated before consumers purchase their devices. Many of us think we know what electronic waste is becaus

Climate , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 04/27/2018

Half of Earth’s satellites restrict use of climate data

Mariel Borowitz, Georgia Institute of Technology Scientists and policymakers need satellite data to understand and address climate change. Yet data from more than half of unclassified Earth-observing satellites is restricted in some way, rather than shared openly. When governments restrict who can a

Business , Energy , Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development / 04/14/2018

New Zealand puts an end to new permits for exploration of deep-sea oil and gas reserves

James Renwick The New Zealand government’s announcement that it will not issue any new permits for offshore exploration for oil and gas deposits is exciting, and a step in the right direction. We know that we can’t afford to burn much more oil if we want to meet the Paris Agreement target of kee

Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/18/2018

Why every day should be World Water Day

Carolyn Johns Most Canadians think of World Water Day as just another international event on the calendar — when water becomes newsworthy for one day in March, on the 22nd. Yet we would be hard-pressed to go without water for just a few hours, let alone one whole day. Depriving ourselves of water

Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 03/12/2018

Why UNESCO’s ‘natural solutions’ to water problems won’t work in Africa

Mike Muller Although nature based solutions are attractive, these solutions are not the ‘green bullet’ that will solve the world’s water problems. Each year UNESCO releases a World Water Assessment Report, a document that explores potential solutions to the globe’s water problems. The 2018 r

Disasters , Environment , Featured , Health , Soil / 03/11/2018

The Cold War’s toxic legacy: Costly, dangerous cleanups at atomic bomb production sites

William J. Kinsella Hanford was one of three large facilities anchoring the Manhattan Project – the crash program to build an atomic bomb. Seventy-five years ago, in March 1943, a mysterious construction project began at a remote location in eastern Washington state. Over the next two years some 5

Data & Reports , Environment , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development / 02/16/2018

Common products, like perfume, paint and printer ink, are polluting the atmosphere

Jenny Fisher and Kathryn Emmerson Researchers found that ignoring volatile organic compounds from chemical products had significant impacts on predictions of air quality. In outdoor environments, they found that these products could be responsible for as much as 60% of the particles that formed ch

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