COVID-19
SDG setback ‘tremendous’ as COVID-19 accelerates slide
Gareth Willmer & Fiona Broom Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United […]
Category: Resources
Sustainable Business
I’m a bit of a modern-day alchemist, recovering gold from old mobile phones
Sandra Wilson, University of Dundee Smartphones contain about 60 different elements – including not only gold but copper and silver too. All three are […]
Biodiversity
GLOBAL FINANCE ENABLING DESTRUCTION OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA RAIN FORESTS
A new investigation from anti-corruption NGO Global Witness has uncovered how global financial institutions – including the likes of Blackrock and the Norway Government Pension Fund […]
Biodiversity
Pandemic for pigs hits northeast India
Farhana Ahmed African Swine Flu, highly contagious, with no vaccine, no cure, and has decimated pig populations in East and Southeast Asia has reached […]
Cities
Another Indian city, Bhubaneswar, inching closer to a groundwater crisis
Pragati Prava The capital city of Odisha is inching towards becoming a semi-critical zone so far as the groundwater scenario is concerned. With groundwater […]
Climate
COVID-19 can compromise the transition to clean energy: WEF
The coronavirus pandemic risks cancelling out recent progress in transitioning to clean energy, with unprecedented falls in demand, price volatility and pressure to quickly […]
Biodiversity
A healthy ocean can help fight pandemics
Torsten Thiele, Marie-Christine Imbert, Timothy Bouley Marine life is full of potential treatments, including the first antiviral approved for Covid-19 patients Covid-19 is forcing the world […]
Biodiversity
Brazil opens 38,000 square miles of indigenous lands to outsiders
Mauricio Torres and Sue Branford Indigenous land rights have been under constant attack by the government since Bolsonaro took office in January 2019. Even […]
Biodiversity
Locust attack threatens food security in Pakistan, South Asia
Muhammad Akbar Notezai; Atika Rehman As FAO warns of major blow to food supply, farmers say locusts are already gobbling up their crops and […]
COVID-19
Malnutrition and epidemics are intertwined. That makes fixing food systems crucial
Stuart Gillespie Both the epidemic and malnutrition will generate long-wave impacts, for years to come. They are also likely to interact with each other […]
Biodiversity
Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
Luigi Guarino and Charlotte Lusty All too often, we place the beginning of the food chain at the farm, when in fact it extends back […]
Sustainable Business
Global energy demand to plunge to a seven decade low, the biggest shock since Second World War
The Covid-19 pandemic represents the biggest shock to the global energy system in more than seven decades, with the drop in demand this year […]