One World – One Environment – One Network
Climate change is likely to alter the environmental conditions in many of the world’s regions within a short period of time. Plant species that can quickly adapt to changes are thus becoming increasingly important....
New research shows that the growing environmental and material footprints of consumption and production could prevent the world from achieving several of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability usually delivers knock-on benefits that make...
Building resilience to natural disasters and economic crises is the key to successfully coping with mass urban migration, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on the occasion of World Cities Day. The theme of this...
A new guide published by InterAcademy Partnership seeks to raise awareness of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals among scientists, policymakers and other leaders and encourage them to get more involved in achieving those goals....
Together with a Norwegian team of scientists, coastal researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht have developed a statistical procedure that will help predict future cod stocks in the Barents Sea. This new method could sustainably improve...
Light and small hydrogen storage units made of bamboo could promote the mobile use of fuel cells. Two researchers have developed a special process that enables them to chemically convert bamboo into gas storage....
Around 475,000 people live on the 316 square kilometres that comprise Malta, an island nation smack in the middle of the Mediterranean. They are now embarking on an experiment in sustainable living that could...
Environmental researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) have developed a novel mobile device for recording microplastics in surface waters. They call it the “Rocket”, a design with which depending...
In recent years, the car industry has increasingly worked on making vehicles more sustainable in terms of fuel type and consumption. A team from Finland has also focused on making the whole car more...
In the latest Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) Policy Brief, authors Esther Meininghaus and Katja Mielke introduce the concept of Situated Sustainability. It comprises local practices, understandings and imaginations of resource use across...
Logistics firm JD.com is launching a new research centre in Xiongan, China, which will focus on developing an underground logistics system in smart cities in China. Rapid urbanization in China is altering the environment,...
Scientists, engineers and others are working hard to reduce pollution that poisons the planet and contributes to climate change. But psychologists might be better suited to tackling how and why consumers spend their money...
Smartphones can quickly become obsolete, leading to criticism of their environmental impact. However, increased repairability is less important than the psychology of the brand name when it comes to device sustainability, says a new...
Last week, the European Union, Canada, China, Denmark, Iceland, Japan, Norway, Russia, South Korea and the US signed a historic international agreement banning unregulated commercial fishing in the Arctic high seas. Together, they represent...
Until now, the Arctic tundra has been the domain of low-growing grasses and dwarf shrubs. But new, taller plant species have been slowly taking over this chilly neighbourhood, report an international group of nearly...
Major multinationals such as Unilever, Coca-Cola and Volvo pledged to reduce marine plastic week when they signed the G7 Ocean Plastics Charter at a meeting of G7 environment ministers, businesses and NGOs in Halifax,...
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals aim to halve food loss and waste by 2030, but a new study by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) shows that this ambitious goal is becoming increasingly distant. However,...
China is attempting a shift from coal to natural gas in an effort to address the country’s severe air pollution. A new study shows that although such a switch generally has benefits for air...
The second Swiss Resources Forum (rf-ch 2018) will take place on October 25, 2018 at the Empa Academy in Dübendorf near Zürich under the title “Science, business and cities together for more resource efficiency“....
Thanks to financial support provided to the International Biochar Initiative from the Biochar for Sustainable Soils Project, the 2015 white paper The Potential for Biochar to Improve Sustainability in Coffee Cultivation and Processing has...
