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Experts have for many years been warning about the effects of coastal erosion in the UK by wind, waves and tides. The cause of land...

With the dramatic decline of the Arctic sea ice, there will be more frequent shipping routes through the Arctic and increased access to...

The global population is expected to grow by one third between 2009 and 2050 requiring a 70% increase in food production from 2005 – 2007...

Permafrost – a permanently frozen layer of ground below the Earth’s surface which covers as much as one quarter of the Northern...

In almost all legal systems mountains, rivers, animals and trees are treated as property, unlike the legal personhood bestowed upon...

The worldwide economic slowdown has offered an opportunity to reflect on the green transition. On 29 April 2020, Julie Baddeley, Chair of...

Trophic cascades are an ecological phenomenon involving a series of reciprocal changes in the populations of predator and prey, which may...

A third of commercial fish stocks are being harvested at biologically unsustainable levels and 90% are fully exploited, according to the...

Self-sustaining ecosystems are vast landscapes that create ideal conditions for their own survival. The Amazon rainforest, for example,...

The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) is a network of central banks and supervisors who have come together to move towards...

Green infrastructure (GI) is based on the principle that ‘protecting and enhancing nature and natural processes are consciously...

It is estimated that by the end of 2019, 25 million people were displaced as a result of natural disasters and conflict – of these 5.1...