Climate
Desertification crisis affecting 168 countries worldwide, study shows
Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, says a new UN report.
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Recording resilience: Filmmaker shares Japan recovery experience
An Our World 2.0 filmmaker reflects on the recovery of tsunami-hit towns.
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Food
Guardians of life and of Earth
Around the world, but especially in the planet’s poorest regions, women represent a life force that renews itself daily, sometimes against all odds.
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Enough is Enough: A path to true prosperity
The authors of a new book lay out why and how to change our economic goal “from the madness of more to the wisdom of enough”.
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Climate
The Skolt Sámi’s path to climate change resilience
In a photo essay, a UNU fellow illustrates why this reindeer and fishing-reliant indigenous community is developing a climate adaptation plan.
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Climate
Greening the world economy through cities
A UNU research team explains how a cities-led green economy could lower resource and energy use.
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Biodiversity
Biocultural resilience for systems change
To ensure our own and our planet’s wellbeing, our actions must be guided by a holistic worldview based on valuing biocultural diversity and resilience.
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Climate
Climate summit ahead but light on the ground
The UN climate convention secretariat hopes that successful on-the-ground actions can inspire policymakers, businesses and the public.
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Why your health is bigger than your body
New research explains how the interrelationship between politics, economics and ecology can help or hurt our bodies.
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Our cooperative Darwinian moment
Darwin tells us we must evolve or die. Can we adapt to scarcity and re-integrate ourselves within ecosystems in the decades ahead?
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Food
China tries alternative to industrial agriculture
China’s great advances have come at the expense of regions with high food insecurity and fragile ecosystems.
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Oil
How rural America got fracked
In a new environmental nightmare you knew nothing about, ancient sandstone hills are being razed for a type of silica used by the natural gas industry.
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Climate
The simpler way to a greener future
Trying out small changes will make your life better and at the same time greener.
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Expanding our moral universe
For humanity to continue to flourish, our moral decision-making must encompass a larger part of our natural and social environments.
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Climate
A city that runs on itself
Cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically? A team of students envisions building this into Vancouver's future.
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Biodiversity
Governance of marine areas beyond national jurisdictions
Improved governance of oceans beyond national jurisdictions will benefit biodiversity and help build more sustainable, equitable economies.
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