Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight
Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat […]
Why (Some) People Don’t Believe In Climate Science
For It’s Okay To Be Smart, Joe Hanson explains the science behind why (s0me) people continue to […]
The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2 °C
Christophe McGlade & Paul Ekins use a single integrated assessment model to explore the implications for fossil […]
Could Global Tide Be Starting To Turn Against Fossil Fuels?
“From an oil chill in the financial world to the recent U.S.-China agreement on climate change, recent […]
After Sustainability: Denial, Hope, Retrieval
From John Foster, a freelance writer and philosophy teacher, and an honorary Fellow in the department of Politics, […]
An expansion of the demographic transition model: the dynamic link between agricultural productivity and population
Russell Hopfenberg expands on the traditional demographic transition model by considering a longer time frame and incorporating […]
Don’t Even Think About It
Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. George Marshall searches for how most of us […]
Air Pollution More Dangerous than Insurgency: NEPA
Mirabed Joyenda reports on the serious issue of air pollution facing residents of Kabul, Afghanistan. The National […]
Mind Maps
Check out some of the mind map examples from Learning Fundamentals. Pictured above is a mind map […]
Merchants of Doubt
The troubling story of how a cadre of influential scientists have clouded public understanding of scientific facts […]
Understanding “New Power”
Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms describe the growing force termed “new power” and how they see it […]
To Get to Net Zero Emissions, We Need Healthy Landscapes
Rachel Kyte reports for The World Bank on the critical role climate-smart land-use practices will play in […]
Making the Connection: Population Dynamics and Climate Compatible Development
Recommendations From an Expert Working Group: “A better understanding of the nexus between family planning and climate […]
How to Defuse the Population Bomb
Zoë Schlanger and Elijah Wolfson take a critical look at the growing human population. The authors begin in Kibera, […]
The Consequences of Increased Population Growth for Climate Change
David Rosnick, an Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, uses the Global Change Assessment […]
Recent Surveys Fill in Gaps in Our Knowledge of Fertility
Carl Haub from the Population Reference Bureau summarizes the recently released data from the Demographic and Health […]
Landscape Game
How would you invest in a forest? Would you cut it down for timber, or preserve it […]
Climate Change Takes a Village
As The Planet Warms, A Remote Alaskan Town Shows Just How Unprepared We Are Kate Sheppard reports […]
A Global Database of Natural Coastal Defenses: Where, When, How and How Well do They Work?
“The months of October and November 2014 witnessed four major storms that collectively cost more than 40 […]
India’s sterilisation scandal
Dinesh C Sharma reports on the lessons that can be learned from the tragic death of several women […]
Arctic Report Card: Update for 2014
“The Arctic Report Card 2014, compiled by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, described a year […]
Protect and serve
Nations must keep expanding conservation efforts to avoid a biodiversity crisis “Before human populations swelled to the […]
Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal
Why the ingrained expectation that women should desire to become parents is unhealthy. Jessica Valenti writes, “American […]
Girls Left Behind: Review of Secretary General’s Report Leaves Much to Be Desired for Girls, Women
Lyric Thompson from the International Center for Research on Women provides a critical perspective of Secretary General […]
The Carbon Underground Tar Sands 20
From Fossil Free Indexes: “Long opposed for their huge environmental footprint and resource-intensive production, tar sands reserves […]
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