Environment

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. Are humans helping or hurting our environment?

Reconciling a positive ecological balance with human development: A quantitative assessment
The Great Simplification #106 – Alexa Firmenich: “Biodiversity, Beauty, and Being”
Earth’s nature is being ravaged by population growth
The Great Simplification #105 – Leon Simons: “Aerosol Demasking & Global Heating”
Global warming in the pipeline
Unlearning Human Exceptionalism – Contribution to GTI Forum Solidarity with Animals
ScientistsWarning TV: Interview with Rupert Read
Meat and dairy industry’s attempt to change how we measure methane emissions would let polluters off the hook
Commodity-driven deforestation and peatland loss emit more carbon than Germany
The Great Simplification #104 – Jane Muncke: “Perils of Plastic Packaging”
The most important issue about water is not supply, but how it is used
Consumption-based emissions: a new frontier for EU climate policy
Unpacking COP28: Key Outcomes from the Dubai Climate Talks, and What Comes Next
Transpersonal Ecodelia: Surveying Psychedelically Induced Biophilia
The Great Simplification #103 – Peter Brannen: “Deep Time, Mass Extinctions, and Today”
Strawberry Case Study: What if Farmers Had to Pay for Water?
Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm?