Over the course of the past 150 years, we’ve lost approximately half of the Earth’s topsoil due to erosion and degradation. This statement may not sound...
I recently spent three months cycling through Mozambique, in a range of temperatures from sweltering to incinerating. In addition to the obligatory saddle sores and sun...
Scientists have warned that plans to bulldoze Chinese mountains in order to create room for cities could cause enormous environmental and safety issues, worsening pollution, soil...
All this week on BBC Radio 4, the economist Jim O’Neill, who coined the term BRICS to refer collectively to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South...
The United Nations has launched a new programme to develop technologies that help tackle climate change, following an agreement made during climate change negotiations in Doha...