Tomorrow is World Oceans Day – a UN initiative that aims to celebrate and enhance understanding planet Earth’s oceans. To that end, this week’s featured TED...
Last week we wrote about the dark triad within unethical, unsustainable and irresponsible investment: a fusion of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy. However, for every yin, there is...
Swedish scientist Johan Rockström, executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, has worked out a set of nine “planetary boundaries“, within which mankind must stay. Staying...
Over 16% of the world’s 7 billion inhabitants lack access to electricity, while a further 40% are forced to rely on wood or biomass for heat...
There’s a quote by Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, the motion picture camera and many other things, about renewable energy. Speaking in 1931, he said,...
There’s a quote by Thomas Edison, inventor of the lightbulb, the motion picture camera and many other things, about renewable energy. Speaking in 1931, he said,...
In the first of a two-part interview, Joanna Boehnert, founder of design research studio EcoLabs, speaks to B> about the visual communication of complex environmental problems....
In April, the Sunday Times revealed its 2013 Rich List – an annual rundown of the UK’s most affluent tycoons and families. Alex Blackburne looks at...
What links geocentricists to tobacco/cancer link deniers and to the current crop of human-caused climate change deniers? There have always been vested interests, which will do...
For the first time ever, more people live in the world’s cities than in rural regions, and most population growth is occurring in urban areas. This...
1972 was an historic year for the embryonic environmental movement. As well as the UN Conference on the Human Environment, which took place in Stockholm in...
Today, more than 192 countries from across the world will celebrate Earth Day, to remind people that our planet is a precious resource and needs to...
The majority of fossil fuels are “unburnable” if governments want to stay within their carbon emission limits, according to a comprehensive report by leading economists. Unburnable...
A study has revealed that fracking can cause earthquakes, but people can barely detect them. However, opinions remain divided, with some scientists noting that there are...
Leading economists are failing to account for ecosystem services such as climate change, water scarcity and pollinator fall off, because of the inherent short-term nature of...