Plastic pollution and climate change are two prominent environmental issues of our time...
Xia Zhu 1 Mar 2021
Inmed Aquaponics Social Enterprise is among the first to receive capital through Mondelez International's new impact investing platform Sustainable Futures...
Women gained legal rights in nearly 30 countries last year despite disruption due to Covid-19, but governments must do more to ease the disproportionate burden...
Sonia Elks 25 Feb 2021
Our cities, designed for one set of climatic ranges, are increasingly "out of place" as average temperatures rise. The days above 40°C and nights above 30°C are...
Cameron Tonkinwise and Abby Mellick Lopes 24 Feb 2021
People have become more concerned about the gap between rich and poor during the coronavirus pandemic, especially the young...
Matthew Lavietes 23 Feb 2021
P&G announced new declarations aimed to propel gender equality across Africa, Asia Pacific and the Middle East at its third #WeSeeEqual summit for the region...
Air pollution caused tens of thousands of deaths in the world's five most populous cities last year despite coronavirus lockdowns...
Michael Taylor 18 Feb 2021
Four of the commissioners are now women. They will work with the AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat from Chad (re-elected)...
Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz 18 Feb 2021
Founder of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk has launched the XPrize Carbon Removal competition which aims to create...
One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases...
Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor C. Li, Volker Sick 17 Feb 2021
In a bid to ditch fossil fuels, some countries are considering carpeting deserts with solar panels...
Zhengyao Lu and Benjamin Smith 12 Feb 2021
Ambitious action from all parts of society needs to be taken in the here and now on climate change...
Daniel Klier 9 Feb 2021
There's a new nature conservation strategy in town - and it means business...
Tom Oliver 8 Feb 2021
US President Joe Biden's administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after former...
Far beneath the ocean surface, a cacophony of industrial noise is disrupting marine animals' ability to mate, feed and even evade predators, scientists warn...
Sharon Bernstein 5 Feb 2021
Sustainability is a hot topic today due to increasing awareness of climate change and inequality, among other pressing issues...
Leanne Keddie 3 Feb 2021
Countries must put more women into leadership roles to build a stronger post-pandemic world, a top UN official said...
Emma Batha 2 Feb 2021
In a new study published in Nature Communications, my colleagues and I find a stark confirmation that microplastics are found throughout the Arctic Ocean...
Peter S. Ross 1 Feb 2021
Covid-19 has been disruptive to non-profit organisations that are, in many cases, already operating on a shoestring...
Brent McKnight and Julie Gouweloos 1 Feb 2021
From reducing bias in product design to tackling racial injustice, more than 100 businesses, governments and non-profits launched a global initiative...
Zachary Fagenson 29 Jan 2021
PepsiCo plans to more than double its science-based climate goal, targeting a reduction of absolute greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by more than 40% by 2030...
As You Sow has filed shareholder proposals with 10 leading consumer goods companies and retailers, calling for commitments to absolute cuts in the use of plastic packaging...
Human-wildlife conflict is a complex issue globally. Whether it's mountain gorillas stealing bananas from farmers on the edge of Bwindi National Park in Uganda, or a pack of grey wolves raiding a cattle pen...
Alexander Richard Braczkowski et al. 12 Jan 2021
Throughout the world, architects are designing green buildings, whether it's in their sustainable construction, environmentally friendly operation or actually green by style...
Norman Day 4 Jan 2021
The African Development Bank (AfDB) earlier this month approved a $7m grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) for technical assistance in setting up the Africa Mini-Grid Market Acceleration Programme...
South Asia has made tremendous progress in connecting rural areas to the electricity grid but the number of people in Africa without access has scarcely changed since 2010...
Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert 30 Dec 2020
The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently approved a Desert-to-Power (D2P) technical support programme that aims to advance the rollout of solar generation in G5 Sahel countries...
Africa faces its worst economic recession in 25 years, largely due to the Covid-19 pandemic...
Matilda Moyo 22 Dec 2020
Covid-19 has presented an opportunity to increase gender equality both in Canada and worldwide. Rebuilding with women at the forefront will help communities succeed post-pandemic.
Andrea Paras 11 Dec 2020
Cultured meat made from animal cells without animal slaughter has been approved for sale for the first time...
Chris Bryant 7 Dec 2020
