We can be certain about some things. For a start, the planet is warming, and human activity is largely responsible. But how much is Earth on course to warm by? What will the global and local effects be? How will it affect our lives? In these articles, Michael Le Page sifts through the evidence to…
The Earth’s natural resources like food, water and forests are being depleted at an alarming speed, causing hunger, conflict, social unrest and species extinction, experts at a climate and health conference in London warned.
Netherlands director Walther Grotenhuis, in his first independent documentary, focuses on the worldwide journey some foods experience to get to your local supermarket. In doing so, he addresses a fundamental flaw in uncontrolled agricultural expansion—the environmental impacts that over-cultivated crops and foods cause to the local ecosystems.
Transform the global food system in the next 40 years by using crops to feed people instead of fattening livestock and producing fuel; eliminate food waste; and overhaul the use of fertilizers like nitrogen that are polluting waters around the world. Those are some of the conclusions in a study led by a University of…
Experts speakers argue their cases.
A review of Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future by Orrin H. Pilkey and Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia University Press, 2007. My story begins with the intriguing title of a new book — Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (Pilkey 2007). The authors are a father and daughter team. The…