The Asahi Glass Foundation Announces the Results of the 29th Annual “Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind” ● The average time on the Environmental Doomsday Clock is now 9:47, the same as that in 2018 when the strongest sense of environment crisis was felt since launching the survey in 1992. This is […]
Its So Popular No-one Goes there Anymore
How Is Overtourism Impacting Travel To Popular Destinations? The time of Covid has hit the pause button on most world travel. If we are fortunate there will be the opportunity to reassess how we travel, where and how we are prepared to deal with the impacts. In the article which follows, Johnny Jet writes […]
New Guide Shows Climate Actions Are Benefiting States and Regions and Provides Blueprint for Governments to Replicate
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and the Under2 Coalition of states and regions today released a handbook detailing five transformative actions regional governments can take to limit the effects of climate change while bringing other beneficial impacts to society. The guide, Regions Take Action: The Benefits of Major Climate Policies, uses case studies from India, Brazil, Europe […]
A Whale of good news tale
Blue whales have ‘rediscovered’ South Georgia By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent Published9 hours ago IMAGE COPYRIGHTAMY KENNEDYAn Antarctic blue whale surfaces off South Georgia The resurgence of blue whales around the island of South Georgia is real and has probably been under way for a little while now, say scientists. When a survey was […]
Open Pandemica’s Box
Pandemic Era A warming world is expanding the range of deadly diseases and risking an explosion of new zoonotic pathogens from the likes of bats, mosquitoes, and ticks By JEFF GOODELL Illustration by Jason Holley for Rolling Stone Jennifer Jones spent most of her summer at home, as so many of us did, trying to […]