The Dayak Kenyah people live in the lungs of the world. Deep inside the lush rainforests of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on the island of Borneo, they have coexisted in harmony with their forbidden ...

The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...

Our “Plastic to Oil Fantastic” video brief about the invention of a plastic-to-oil converting machine went viral and exceeded 3.7 million views on YouTube. This is evidence that concern over “the ...

Monomania is a serious disorder, characterized by, according to my dictionary, “excessive concentration on a single object or idea.” In the case of much of American farming, that single object is the ...

Barack Obama has taken an historic step forward in confronting climate change, asserting his power as United States president to cut carbon pollution and protect future generations from catastrophic ...

Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report ...

Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1 billion to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...

Beverly McGuire saw the warning signs before the town well went dry: sand in the toilet bowl, the sputter of air in the tap, a pump working overtime to no effect. But it still did not prepare her for ...

それは4月中旬の雨模様の日曜の朝だった。自宅のストーブのそばで温かいコーヒーでも飲んでいたくなるような天気だ。しかし、気が滅入るような肌寒い天気をよそに、私たちは石川県の ...

世界保健機関（WHO）憲章の前文の冒頭には、次のように記されている： 健康とは、病気ではないとか、弱っていないということではなく、肉体的にも、精神的にも、そして社会的にも ...

ある日私は、キャリアを積むために旅立とうとするある優秀な仲間の門出を祝い（「祝う」というのがはたしてふさわしい表現なのかはわからないが）、他の仲間たちと一緒に地元の中華 ...

国連大学（UNU）の新しい評価によると、塩は世界のかんがい地の5分の1を劣化させており、年間およそ273億USドルの経済損失を引き起こしている。過去20年間、毎日、75カ国の乾燥地帯や半 ...