Human rights and the rights of nature are the two missing links in the international community’s efforts aimed at achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs).
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New research questions the “eco-anxiety” label and whether it really encompasses the complexity of the emotional, mental or physical distress young people feel over the planet’s woes.
In Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley, restoring harmony with nature against exploitative forces is key to the game’s narrative.
We ran computer programs that simulate ecosystems 70,000 times and the results are very worrying.
Forming tightly woven populations, these bush-like corals offer a refuge to a myriad of marine species.
The sport of trail running is one of the fastest growing in the world, but now is facing two major challenges at the same time, the Covid-19 pandemic and ecological crisis.
Mining is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well.
Humans have caused ecosystems to collapse on purpose for millennia, to grow food or build settlements. But unplanned collapses are a different matter.
Extinction Rebellion’s ‘apolitical’ stance deprives it of allies, and leaves the movement vulnerable to co-option.
To reverse the current climate and ecological crises, governments must put an end to the damaging forms of technology, innovation, investments and incentives that contribute to it.
When the current crisis passes, we must seize the opportunity to re-imagine, and to create, a different kind of future.
Instead of Tudors and Churchill, history students need to learn how civilisation has arrived at the point of no return.
Jane Goodall’s comments at Davos may seem harmless, but they reflect a dangerous misreading of the climate crisis that needs to be challenged.
The largest reproductive event on the planet is under threat.
Writing vividly about her beloved Aberdeenshire landscape has reconnected many readers and writers to nature, underscoring the need to protect our fragile environment.
Climate change is accelerating and species are dying out at a record rate. Experts imagine how inviting nature into our lives could help.
The abandonment of crop farming fields isn’t new. But some researchers say it’s accelerated in the last two decades.
Much of the devastation of our globe’s natural resources traces its origins to early colonialism. These relationships continue to define the extraction of resources that severely impact ecosystems.
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Lecturer in Sustainability, University of Manchester
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Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton
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Chercheuse CNRS - UMR ESO, Université d’Angers
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PhD Candidate, Communication Studies, Université de Lorraine
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Professor and Head, Dept. of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia
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Professor & Research Chair in Interdisciplinary Science in Land and Natural Resource Use for Sustainable Livelihoods, Rhodes University
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Professor of Sustainability, Bangor University
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Ingénieur de recherche en géographie sociale, Université d’Angers
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Professor in Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia
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Senior Research Associate, Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social-Ecological Resilience, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature, Edinburgh Napier University
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SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for South Asian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
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Chercheur en écologie marine (écosystèmes benthiques méditerranéens de substrat dur), Ifremer