Despite being a major contributor of global carbon emissions, concrete remains a popular construction material. Research suggests this needs to change.
After years of neglect, Australia’s environmental crises can wait no longer. Here’s what our new government can do quickly to begin turning things around.
Image of Earth’s city lights, created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.
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A 1972 report warned that unchecked consumption could crater the world economy by 2100. Fifty years and much debate later, can humanity innovate quickly enough to avoid that fate?
Nineteenth-century European settlement is often depicted as a triumphal ‘taming of nature’. But does that collective memory impede more honest appraisals of the environmental risks we face today?
Cultural burning practices can clear out flammable plant materials that lead to bushfires.
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This NAIDOC Week, with the effects of climate change affecting Australia, It’s beyond time to listen to First Nations people who have extensive knowledge of caring for Country.
This Plastic Free July, we need to be teaching children to demand less plastic from the world’s worst producers instead of expecting change from individual recycling efforts.
Plastic waste from land based sources pollute the beaches and other water bodies.
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Sustainable fashion collaborations show that living an eco-friendly life can be fun - here’s how popular shows can help dismantle consumerism altogether.
PFAS, often used in water-resistant gear, also find their way into drinking water and human bodies.
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These chemicals are now present in water, soil and living organisms and can be found across almost every part of the planet – including 98% of the American public.
Greenhouse gases emitted today linger in the atmosphere for years to centuries.
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Thanks to humans, the concentration of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now 50% higher than before the industrial era. These gases are raising Earth’s temperature.
Seagrasses form dense meadows in shallow seas worldwide.
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The Stockholm Conference in June 1972 launched five decades of international negotiations on everything from biodiversity to climate change.
Alain Libondo (17) left, and Nsinku Zihindula (25), hammering at solid rock to find cassiterite and coltan at Szibira, South Kivu.
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Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
Although it is important to have a diversity of tree species in urban landscapes, planting and protecting taller species should be strongly encouraged.
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