Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1 billion to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...
The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...
Our “Plastic to Oil Fantastic” video brief about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral and exceeded 3.7 million views on YouTube. This is evidence that concern over “the ...
Sea levels are rising so fast that the tiny Pacific state of Kiribati is seriously considering moving its 100,000 people on to artificial islands. In a speech to the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum ...
Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report ...
ブラジル・ベレンで開催された今年の国連気候変動枠組条約締約国会議(COP)には190カ国以上が参加したが、2050年までに排出削減目標を達成するには各国のコミットメントが未だ不足して ...
The raging epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa underscores the urgent need for international cooperation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. With its epicenter in Guinea, ...
As part of an institution that is raising the alarm about the future of the planet, you would expect Didier Houssin, director of sustainable energy policy at the International Energy Agency (IEA), to ...
Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for ...
国連大学(UNU)の新しい評価によると、塩は世界のかんがい地の5分の1を劣化させており、年間およそ273億USドルの経済損失を引き起こしている。過去20年間、毎日、75カ国の乾燥地帯や半 ...
猛暑や干ばつ、山火事、洪水、ハリケーンは、人々の生活にますます大きな影響を及ぼしており、今後、数十年の間に、その頻度や深刻さは増すと予測されている。これらの事象は、直接 ...
「ブラック・ライブズ・マター」運動をきっかけに、国連大学マーストリヒト技術革新・経済社会研究所(UNU-MERIT)のアフリカ出身の若手ソートリーダーたちによって開始された「Black Voices ...