Environmental Issues

The central role that the theory of terrestrial temperatures played in Fourier's mathematical physics has not received the attention it deserves from …

Peter Turchin’s latest book, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, is receiving glowing reviews. Its message is highly relevant to our collective understanding of the emerging global polycrisis and what needs to be done to minimize it.

Data shows that cutting down tropical forests increased by 10% in 2022, despite promises made at COP26.

Report warns temperatures likely to rise by more than 1.5C bringing widespread extreme weather

Report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said half of the world’s people are ‘highly vulnerable’

Climate change means actuaries are making a radical new calculation about the price of risk

Eco-distress is rising around the world, but a new article in the journal Nature by psychologists suggests this could be a positive catalyst for action.

Scientists say current data shows only six years left to limit global warming to 1.5C

David Antonioli to step down from Verra, which was accused of approving millions of worthless offsets used by major companies

Prosecutors regularly bring homicide charges against individuals and corporations whose reckless or negligent acts or omissions cause unintentional deaths, as w

IPCC report says only swift and drastic action can avert irrevocable damage to world

Ecological sustainability and social equity are among the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals—but, unfortunately, as the years pass, they are still far from being reached. But concern about these issues has made its way to industry and the IS...

We shouldn't allow disingenuous uses of net zero to discredit the concept as a whole.

EXCLUSIVE: An edie survey of more than 240 sustainability, energy and CSR professionals across the UK has revealed exactly what they make of the global reen recovery movement, and provided an update on how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted day-to...

From the rise and rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to possible solutions

In the autumn of 2020, South Pole conducted a survey of over 120 sustainability leaders from key sectors, including industry, consumer goods and services, property and construction, and finance. Now is the time to align COVID-19 recovery plans with pathways to Net Zero.

When the UK first announced its legally binding net-zero target, it was described as 'world-leading'. But, given that the IPCC recommended 2050 as a final cut-off date, the debate has been intensifying around whether the nation can go further and ...

NOAA warned that carbon dioxide and methane "continued their unrelenting rise in 2020."

The pandemic brought some big improvements—but many cities still had unsafe air.