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Food
Four Fish, but for how long?
Author and fisherman Paul Greenberg views the future of wild food through our treatment of salmon, sea bass, cod and tuna.
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Climate
IPCC must keep its eye on the ball
The IPCC should focus on recommending methods and standards for regional climate change assessments.
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Climate
Tajik women’s perspectives of climate change
A project in Tajikistan aims to unite leading scientists and local communities to document scientific and traditional knowledge on climate change.
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Climate
Climate change scepticism is an age-old problem
The divisions we see around climate change are nothing new. Indeed they resemble the divergent views on population growth in the days of Thomas Malthus.
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Food
How things work: food energy
With obesity and diabetes becoming ever more common, it seems many people don’t understand the basics of nutrients and metabolism. Do you?
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Oil
Plastic to oil fantastic
A Japanese company creates a small, very safe and easy to use machine that can convert several types of plastic back into oil.
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Food
Debate 2.0: Will you eat the last bluefin tuna?
The world loves the taste of bluefin tuna to death, literally. But what can, or should you do to save the bluefin tuna?
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Biodiversity
Your ideas for halting biodiversity loss
You can help compile a list of 100 tasks that G20 governments should complete to prove their commitment to tackling the biodiversity crisis.
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Climate
Long emergency on Planet Eaarth
James Howard Knustler and Bill McKibben explore how we are in the middle of a long emergency on a tougher planet.
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Food
Artificial meat? Food for thought for 2050
Scientists say that novel food production techniques, including artificial meat made in giant vats, may be necessary to feed 9 billion people.
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Climate
Bicycles: a love story
People ride bicycles for many different reasons, resulting in financial, health, environmental and social benefits to individuals and broader society.
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Food
Mt. Fuji eco-village connects to a greener world
In the shadow of Japan's famed peak lies a sustainable community cultivating over 250 organic crops.
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Climate
How things work: Environmental satellites
Satellites don't only link the world with phone and television signals, they are also crucial to monitoring the Earth's environment.
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Biodiversity
List of world’s natural heritage spots grows
This year, International Year of Biodiversity, the World Heritage List gains six new sites where flora and fauna flourishes.
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Oil
A look at Vietnam’s plastic craft villages
Thousands of Hanoi residents make a living out of recycling plastic waste and provide an important environmental service at the same time.
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Oil
China overtakes US as world’s biggest energy consumer
China's hunger for coal, oil, wind and other sources of power more than doubled in the past decade
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Climate
What will climate change mean for human security?
There is yet little empirical evidence that climate change will drive armed conflict but its implications for human and international security are several.
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Awarding young scientists’ work in sustainable development
The 2010 ProSPER.Net-Scopus Young Scientist Award in Sustainable Development for young researchers in the Asia-Pacific region, has been announced.
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Biodiversity
Satoumi: the link between humans and the sea
Japan's Seto Inland Sea supports a variety of sea life and people and its integrated management would allow the reaping of benefits well into the future.
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Biodiversity
Building peace through environmental conservation
Dr. Saleem Ali believes ecological diplomacy tools, such as peace parks, can be used to resolve conflicts.
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Oil
Green energy tipping point: anytime soon?
Two new reports show the dramatic growth in renewable energy in recent years. But is it fast enough?
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Oil
Japan’s next generation of renewable energy
Our World 2.0 attended the Yokohama Renewable Energy Exhibition recently to see how Japanese technology in the sector is progressing.
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Climate
Uncovering the carbon footprint of everything
How Bad are Bananas is a carbon emissions calculating guide to finally help us with our lifestyle choices.
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Biodiversity
Love trumps loss when saving species
A communications expert argues that "branding biodiversity" may be the most effective way to convey the value of biodiversity.
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Oil
BP and the peak: delusions of oil grandeur persist
It is time to face the daunting reality that most of the world's remaining oil lies in places from which it is exorbitantly expensive to extract.
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Food
Nature is a language we need to read
A University of California community and agroecology program is creating environmentally literate leaders.
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Biodiversity
Debate 2.0: Can corporations save the world?
Do you think corporations are the source of world environmental problems or can they drive human behaviour towards sustainability?
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Biodiversity
Fate of the Amazon hangs in the balance
With the Brazilian elections just months away, vested interests are competing to weaken the country's environmental laws.
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Biodiversity
Japan’s charcoal making traditions still alive
Charcoal-makers in Japan's Ishikawa Prefecture revive traditional knowledge of skills associated with forest management.
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Biodiversity
Wonder Worm to the rescue
Can earthworms help save the planet? ‘VermEcology’ expert Rob J. Blakemore thinks they are key for a number of very compelling reasons.
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Biodiversity
Agriculture and food systems unsustainable
A new report assesses the environmental impacts of food systems and indicates dietary changes are needed if we are to slow the damage caused by agriculture.
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Biodiversity
Galápagos giant tortoise saved from extinction
Scientists have successfully reintroduced giant tortoises to a Galápagos island where the species once teetered on extinction.
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Food
Can we feed our world without Monsanto?
April Davila spent weeks tirelessly tracing simple foods back to their seed source in an experiment spurred by her concern over genetic engineering.
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Climate
Sweden’s gold medal winning eco-town
Eco-towns like Stockholm's Hammarby are leading the way in saving carbon and remaking urban civilisation
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Climate
Solar: A climate and energy novel
Ian McEwan’s latest novel, Solar, is a tale of one man’s greed and self-deception in the world of climate and energy science.
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Oil
Cuba braces as Gulf oil approaches
Havana calls in Venezuelan experts to combat potential environmental disaster as tarballs spotted off island's coast.
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Climate
The triple crisis – finance, food and climate change
The Triple Crisis of finance, food and climate change has serious implications for poverty, inequality and human development.
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Climate
Debate 2.0: How can social media save the planet?
Our World 2.0 will share your views on how social media can save the planet with participants at the 2010 Global Media Forum in Bonn.
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Biodiversity
Entering the snow leopard’s lair
Our World 2.0's Citt Williams took a trek in Russia's Altai for a first-hand look at the plight of endangered snow leopards and hard-pressed shepherds.
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Food
Preserving Japan’s sea salt making tradition
Japan's centuries-old sea salt production landscapes can serve in developing models for integrated management of land and marine ecosystems.
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