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Promoted as a 21st century version of the ancient Silk Roads, China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is a multi-billion-dollar project that will link China with countries in Southeast and Central Asia, East Africa, Europe and beyond, building a network that will include almost two thirds of the world’s population. …
In 2017, the American Psychological Association published a report describing the mental health impacts of climate change. In this report, they used the term ‘eco-anxiety’ to describe “a chronic fear of environmental doom.” During the recent climate protests that have taken place around the world, the scale of environmental degradation has been…
The way we produce and consume food has a huge bearing on biodiversity loss, deforestation, climate change, water scarcity, and water pollution. However, we have very limited information on the sustainability of different food producers or production practices across the indicators that we should be tracking. Specifically:
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The coasts of Latin America have nurtured ancient cultures and traditional practices. It can be witnessed even today through Peruvian artisanal fishermen and their handmade sailboats, or the Chilean Mapuches (indigenous people) and their customary uses of the ocean, dating thousands of years. Nowadays, the ocean plays a crucial…
I have a son who is 2 years old, and he might never see a wild hedgehog.
It is a realisation that came to me only recently. I grew up watching hedgehogs regularly in the garden. They populate the pages of the story books that I once read and which I now read to him – he knows exactly what they are, and he loves them. There are still quite a few…
