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Rapid environmental decline is a major threat, yet education is not mobilised to empower children. Fortunately, many initiatives explore how to make students actors of the ecological transition.
William Nordhaus showed that the market offers the best chance for preventing global catastrophe form climate change.
Footprints get people thinking about their own impact, but for water the analogy simply doesn’t work.
Planting trees is a popular way for companies to clean up their image. Unfortunately, it may cause more problems than it solves.
A disc-golf boom is coinciding with a ball-golf bust.
All too often the media buzz is centred around the managed honeybee, at the expense of other wild bee species.
The cruel link between economics and animal welfare.
A lesser known aspect of bogs is their remarkable potential to preserve both environmental and archaeological records.
The late Sen. John McCain was an early – and lonely – Republican supporter of action to fight climate change. His challenge was to regulate sources of energy that underlie much of our economy.
Uncontrolled growth at the expense of the environment will severely exacerbate the impacts of climate change. As shown with tragic floods in India, our cities are not prepared for extreme events.
Two business professors spent five years studying Walmart’s ambition project to bring sustainability to its millions of budget-conscious customers – a plan that began with the birth of a granddaughter.
Plastic bags are commonly mistaken for food by sea animals. They require a lot of energy and resources to be made, and have caused floods in some countries.
Tech fixes to environmental problems are guaranteed to grab attention, but real change for the planet requires community organising.
South African soldiers reported that environmental education and training programmes instilled environmentally friendly behaviour in them.
The work honey bees do is critical for our ecosystems, but it comes at a high personal cost.
Canada wants to move towards a green economy and meet its Paris Agreement targets, but it has also just taken ownership of a pipeline. How can the federal government deal with this paradox?
Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of the seaweed that offers a solution for the global plastic crisis.
David Suzuki may be best known as an environmental activist and the face of CBC’s ‘The Nature of Things,’ but he’s also a globally recognized scientist.
Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society’s ethos.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Research Assistant, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Agente de transfert de connaissances pour le Centre de recherche sur la boréalie (CREB), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
