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Nigeria’s built environment should ideally be part of a broader, integrated approach to crime prevention and community policing.
The Stockholm Conference in June 1972 launched five decades of international negotiations on everything from biodiversity to climate change.
Coltan is indispensable to the making of modern electronic devices but its mining causes human and environmental disasters in the DR Congo.
There is a growing interest in planting small trees in urban areas. However, large trees have significant advantages.
If small-scale farmers can’t afford to grow certified seeds – or can’t find them – food shortages would follow.
Coastal erosion in West Africa is a cause for global concern. The global community must rally to address climate change which is causing the retreat.
In June 1972, the first United Nations conference on the human environment coincided with the release of David Bowie’s iconic Ziggy Stardust album. Both still feel disturbingly relevant today
Scientists just grew plants in soil from the Moon, but Antarctica has long provided researchers with the perfect place to test their agricultural techniques for a future in space.
La Niña is only part of the problem. The long-term driver of increasing drought – even in areas getting more rainfall overall – is the rapidly warming climate.
A 50-year experiment shows warmer, ‘thirstier’ air may have cut the lifespan of Queensland’s tropical trees in half since the 1980s.
An Anglican Aboriginal pastor who attended the COP26 climate conference shares his perspective on Indigenous knowledge in dealing with climate change.
War, famine and an energy crunch are affecting the world’s response to climate change, but there are reasons for optimism.
The illegal refinery process ignores all environmental, health and safety procedures and can have catastrophic consequences.
The 2022 election looms as the most important for Ontario’s environment in the modern era, and its impact may echo for generations to come.
A staggering 10,000 people took part in our #SetTheAgenda poll. The number one issue was climate change.
Nigeria should urgently protect three freshwater ecosystems as these undisturbed environments are becoming rare globally.
Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
A new ‘protein roadmap’ produced by CSIRO reveals foods set to fill fridges by 2030 as health, environmental and ethical concerns push consumers away from meat.
The Earth is a resilient planet, but people are altering it in ways that may take centuries to reverse.
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Scientist, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Director of CORDIO in East Africa and Adjunct Fellow, Pwani University
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Professorial Research Fellow, Victoria University
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Professor in Oceanography, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Middlebury
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Research Assistant, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University
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Research Fellow in Marine Science and Manager Whales & Climate Program, Griffith University
