Political interests have informed conservation policies in one of East Africa’s most important water towers, the Mau Forest Complex.
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A climate-friendly diet is a relatively easy way to reduce your environmental impact.
Removing red tape for new renewable energy projects will see additional energy coming online quite quickly.
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.
Under certain conditions, climate can amplify security risks, with implications for lasting peace.
New research quantifies the link between agricultural practices and malaria transmission in sub-Saharan Africa.
Environmental footprint calculators may promise to help consumers lead a greener life. But they may in fact encourage choices that don’t benefit – or even harm – the environment.
The presence of roads, even inside protected areas, may pose a significant threat to species.
World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
A complete switch to biofuels is neither feasible nor desirable, but they could replace some fossil fuels in transport and heating. If biofuels are produced from waste products, that’s even better.
Abandoned US oil and gas wells and their associated land cover more than 2 million acres, a recent study estimates – an area larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined.
Combining archaeological evidence, aerial scans and machine learning algorithms, researchers modeled how this medieval city grew over time.
Putting affected people and communities at the centre of difficult relocation decisions must be a priority under laws that replace the old Resource Management Act.
The transition to 100% renewable energy will require a lot of land – mostly in regional Australia. This presents big challenges, and opportunities, for the farming sector.
NOAA released its list of climate and weather disasters that cost the nation more than $1 billion each. Like many climate and weather events this past year, it shattered the record.
The built environment plays a pivotal role in lowering residents’ exposure to climate change driven risks.
COVID-19 restrictions led to calls to open up golf courses to the public. But these are such precious refuges for native flora and fauna that access will have to be carefully managed.
South Africa’s that current land reform strategies focus too narrowly on agricultural outcomes and transferred ownership - this undermines equitable and sustainable land reform.
How climate change and other human actions have combined to create conditions for explosive wildfires in California, Oregon and Washington state.
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Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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