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Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan
Climate
Fukushima disaster paves way for new geothermal plants
Alternatives to nuclear power override fears that natural hot springs will be damaged by energy development.
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Food
A critical mass for real food
The old slave plantation logic is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making, but a new way of thinking is taking off.
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Oil
By George, we are all going to fry…
Brendan Barrett explains how some are getting fixated on defending the status quo and it is upping the chances that we face grave planetary consequences.
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Climate
Profiteers of climate change in the Arctic
Climate change is opening up shipping routes once covered by ice and making it easier to gain access to the Arctic's fossil fuels.
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Can REDD ever become green?
Social and other safeguards are needed if REDD initiatives are to cut GHG emissions while doing no harm and benefiting indigenous peoples.
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Climate
The Story of Change
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The Story of Change animated short, filmmaker Annie Leonard explains why citizens, not shoppers, hold the key to a better world.
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Biodiversity
Satoumi in Ago Bay: Embracing integrated coastal management
A bay, historically prized as the marine product supplier to Japan's Imperial Court, is being revived.
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Food
The world is closer to a food crisis than most people realise
Unless we move quickly to adopt new population, energy, and water policies, the goal of eradicating hunger will remain just that.
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Food
Symbiotic urban farming and industrial reuse in Chicago
The Plant is an aquaponic food production system and a hub for artisanal food businesses that aims for net-zero energy consumption.
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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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Biodiversity
The roots of cooperative capitalism run deep in Japan
In the face of today's pressing global issues, cooperative behaviour offers sustainable solutions.
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Global fight for natural resources ‘has only just begun’
Academics and business figures give a grim warning at the Resource 2012 conference.
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Food
Cuba seeks to guarantee food supplies in changing climate
Farmers in Cuba are coming up with alternatives to keep food on the table during times of drought, heavy rains or hurricanes.
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Biodiversity
Are transgenic crops safe? GM agriculture in Africa
Though controversial, could genetically modified crops help to solve Africa's food, agriculture and human security challenges?
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Our World 2.0 at four years
As Our World 2.0 celebrates its fourth birthday, here is a look back at what inspired us and what the future still holds.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity in Kanazawa: Summer’s lesson
Kanazawa's vibrant local cuisine reflects the diversity of the fresh foods provided by the surrounding sea, fields and mountains.
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Biodiversity
Defending Rio+20: A historical perspective
Rio+20 is currently facing a withering level of criticism, but is all of it really warranted?
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Climate
Why does the US lack a federal climate policy?
What does the United States' political reality mean for the future of action on climate change?
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Biodiversity
Roads and stables mean greener Tajik pastures
A unique collaboration is helping mobilize rural pilot communities to improve small-scale infrastructure and halt land degradation.
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How fear led world leaders to betray green economy
The author of Prosperity Without Growth says that despite a staggering lack of responsibility from politicians, there is still a route to a better economic system.
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Climate
Japan’s post 3-11 “Plan B”
Peak oil means peak food and, very possibly, the peak of human advancement.
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Food
Yemen: at a crossroads
The dire political situation in Yemen should not overshadow the critical humanitarian crisis the country faces.
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Biodiversity
The way forward: Survival 2100
Global society’s cultural narrative needs rewriting to achieve greater social equity and economic security in ways that reflect biophysical reality.
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Oil
Big picture policy responses to peak oil
Four policy scenarios to guide societies trying to respond to the implications of peak oil (and climate change).
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Biodiversity
Rio+20 Earth summit: scientists call for action on population
The world's leading science academies make an appeal to sustainable development negotiators.
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Oil
Boulder votes to free its electric company
Finding the private utility's take-up of renewables too slow, a US city opts for local control, less coal and more energy innovation.
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Biodiversity
Runaway gold prices spark major headaches for Guyana
As Guyana's gold mining sector booms, tribal communities face negative impacts like declining water and food security.
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Biodiversity
Seeing the people for the trees
Over 1.3 billion forest peoples’ rights are in need of stronger national and international protection.
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Oil
Policy-makers slow to take peak oil action
The peaking of oil production has gone from a fringe theory to an accepted fact. Yet policy inaction remains the rule.
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Biodiversity
Ramsar Convention at 41: New dimensions
Over the years, the Ramsar Convention on wetlands has evolved and the scope of its activities has broadened.
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Biodiversity
Debate 2.0: Will Rio+20 add up to anything?
The upcoming summit on sustainable development is one of the most important in the UN's history says Ban Ki-Moon.
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Biodiversity
Reversing desertification with livestock
A compelling Q&A with the originator of a holistic approach to restoring grasslands by using livestock to mimic nature's herbivore herds.
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Climate
Kenya: first African nation to set up climate authority
A member of Kenya's parliament drafts a bill to set up Africa's first climate change authority
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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
Universities co-creating urban sustainability
Universities have begun collaborating with diverse social actors to drive the sustainable transformation of regions, cities, communities.
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Making K* work for your research findings
The UNU-INWEH K* conference looked at ideas for research communication, including science push; knowledge translation, brokering and mobilization; and policy pull.
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Biodiversity
Wetland diplomacy: Transboundary conservation and Ramsar
With the vital role of wetlands in global water security, the Ramsar Convention can be critical.
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Climate
Recycling on the US–Mexico border
Trade in second-hand products between affluent countries and neighbouring developing nations can be mutually beneficial.
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Food
Mighty agro-lobby threatens reforestation of Amazon
While deforestation has slowed, restoring Brazil's rainforest is still meeting powerful opposition.
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Climate
Whatever happened to carbon capture?
CCS has been hobbled by the economic crisis and Europe is far behind the US, but a new Norwegian plant provides hope.
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