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Investing one fifth of the global arms budgets in a new world food system will end hunger everywhere – but also greatly increase prospects for world peace. “At present humanity invests around 25 times more money in better ways to kill ourselves than we do in better ways to feed ourselves. That is not […]
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Martin Drechsler, author of 'Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation', discusses how we can help solve the conflict between agriculture and biodiversity conservation. Photo by 童 彤 on Unsplash
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We need new thinking and new politics if the world is to get out of the mess we are currently in. A new book Global Green Politics provides a tour de force of the contribution of Green politics to building a fairer and more sustainable future. Environmental issues are now firmly on the global political […]
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Rising tensions over scarcities of food, land and water combined with increasingly unstable climates threaten to unleash new wars and the mass flight of hundreds of millions of people by the mid-century. ‘Food or War’ identifies the nine regions globally most at risk of conflict over dwindling food resources, water especially. “Media and political descriptions […]
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Why were these 17 species such successful colonisers in contrast to most other birds? Most cosmopolitan birds exploit water environments and because there is water everywhere, with continents surrounded by oceans, this is not surprising! There are just four cosmopolitan species that are not associated with water: pigeons, house sparrows, peregrine falcons and barn owls! […]
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The world food system on which nearly 8 billion humans depend for their daily sustenance is at risk of disintegrating by the mid-century as global soil and water resources and climate stability fail. I lay out the case for a worldwide food revolution in ‘Food or War’. ‘We know only too well from history what […]
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If you want to understand how it went from being called the “Dead Sea” to the world’s most important “Super Basin”, read the new book Gulf of Mexico Sedimentary Basin: Depositional Evolution and Petroleum Applications. This is the first comprehensive study of the basin and its petroleum endowment in almost 40 years. With an estimated […]
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When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the recent Climate Action Summit in New York urged countries to “show the way towards a full transformation of economies in line with sustainable development goals”, this reflected the growing international science and policy attention to the need for fundamental, systemic, non-linear societal transformations to achieve sustainability, in response […]
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