On July 29, humanity will have used nature’s resource budget for the entire year, according to Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint. The Ecological Footprint adds up all of people’s competing demands...
More than three people were killed in an average week last
year defending their land and the environment from invasion by industries like
mining, logging and agribusiness. Countless more were silenced through other
tactics designed to crush protest, such as arrests, death...
The Australian Antarctic Program’s research season kicks off
this week with NASA launching its Operation IceBridge mission from Hobart – for
the first time – to map ice along East Antarctica’s coastline. NASA’s Operation
IceBridge is the largest survey of Earth’s changing...
The world
is increasingly at risk of “climate apartheid”, where the rich pay to escape
heat and hunger caused by the escalating climate crisis while the rest of the
world suffers, a report from a UN human rights expert has said.
Philip
Alston, UN...
More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries are sounding
the alarm on climate change. In a paper published today in the journal
BioScience, they've signed a declaration stating "clearly and
unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency." According
to the scientists,...
On Monday 28th June, the prizes were awarded to the winning schools of the 7th edition of the ANTER Green Awards competition linked to "Il Sole in Classe" (The Sun in the Classroom), the educational project that aims to...
China will ban disposable plastic. The transition will take place gradually and will affect some products before others, big cities before small towns. The announcement was made by the National Commission for Development and Reforms and the Ministry of...
The Ministry of Ecological Transition, one of the novelties of the government led by Mario Draghi, begins to take shape. As we suspected, the Ecological Transition conceived by the new government and led by the faithful Roberto Cingolani, has...
Sustainability is not only environmental but also social in
the Philippines where, in exchange for a kilo of plastic, a kilo of rice is
donated. The campaign was taken after the discovery in March, in the Philippine
Sea, of a dead whale...
When one thinks of buildings made of rammed earth, images of ancient buildings in remote parts of the world or great architectural wonders such as the Great Wall of China immediately come to mind.
Rammed earth buildings have a long...
