- By Anupam Nanda
The idea of a four-day working week is gaining traction. Recently, several high-profile companies have trialled reduced hours. And in the UK, the Labour Party has pledged a 32-hour four day work week within ten years should it come to power.
- By Jade McClain
Cities are at the forefront fighting against climate change in a range of ways, according to a new article.
Electric cars, trains, trams and boats already exist. That logically leads to the question: why are we not seeing large electric aircraft? And will we see them any time soon?
- By David Korten
Humanity’s existential crisis can be resolved only when we the people stand united behind a vision of the world we truly want.
Researchers working in the field of climate change communications have, for many years, been confronted with the same puzzle
- By Todd Miller
Building a new world will require first reexamining—and dismantling—the cultural ethos of productivity that creeps into our lives every day.
Seaweed is a lot more than marine debris you find on the beach. It may play a big role in the effort to mitigate climate change, researchers say.
The main solution to climate change is well known – stop burning fossil fuels.
- By Kelly Reed
About a quarter of all the greenhouse gas emissions that humans generate each year come from how we feed the world.
The IPCC special report, Climate Change and Land, released last night, has found a third of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the “land”: largely farming, food production, land clearing and deforestation.
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Challenge prizes – which offer a cash incentive to those working to solve a particular problem – are becoming a force for change by allowing entrepreneurs and innovators, often overlooked by existing grant and procurement systems, to develop solutions to the world’s greatest problems.
Wicked problems are issues so complex and dependent on so many factors that it is hard to grasp what exactly the problem is, or how to tackle it.
Restoring the world’s forests on an unprecedented scale is “the best climate change solution available”, according to a new study.
Shared dockless electric scooters, or e-scooters, transport riders over short distances in cities. Ride share companies promote them as an environmentally friendly choice that reduces dependence on cars.
- By Kasim Rafiq
Animal populations have declined on average by 60% since 1970, and it’s predicted that around a million species are at risk of extinction.
- By Hugh Hunt
The Paris climate talks hoped to set out how we can reduce the amount of carbon we’re pumping into the atmosphere.
Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work in the fight against climate change by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands. This could absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive.
U.S. states and cities hand out tens of billions in taxpayer dollars every year to companies as economic incentives.
Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including to tackle climate change. And Australia’s sprawling car-based cities are gradually changing to embrace green or living infrastructure.
New research offers a hard link between reforestation of marginal, degraded, or abandoned agricultural land and significant benefits in water quality.
Climate scientists insist in a recent report that fundamental changes in how energy is consumed and supplied are urgently required to avoid serious damage to life and property
- By ETH Zurich
A new technology produces liquid hydrocarbon fuels exclusively from sunlight and air.
As the climate crisis is increasingly felt across the globe, protesters take to the streets and politicians scrabble to respond, a crucial question is beginning to emerge.