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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

Agroforestry — the integration of trees and shrubs with crops and livestock systems — has strong potential in addressing problems of food insecurity in developing countries. Done well, it allows ...

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 ...

In 1985, Li Hua visited a valley in the foothills of the Tibetan Plateau. The area was better known for its panda population, but the oenologist realized that its high altitude, hours of sunshine, ...

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 ...

人類は可能な限り早急に効果的な方法で気候変動に対応すべきだと、あなたが強く感じているなら、気候問題への反論者や懐疑論者、否定する者のバカげた行為に強い懸念を感じることが ...

The raging epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa underscores the urgent need for international cooperation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. With its epicenter in Guinea, ...

作家のトマス・ベリー氏はエコ生代を 「より大きな生態学的意識への人類の努力の再統合」と表現した。ベリー氏は、エコ生代が人新世に取って代わると信じていた 。人新世とは現在私 ...

人工知能（AI）は瞬く間に私たちの日常生活に欠かせない存在となり、医療、教育、金融、エンターテインメントなど、幅広い分野に影響を及ぼしている。AIが進化し続ける中、その使用法を ...

地球上の陸地の3分の1以上、つまり40億ヘクタールは森で覆われている。森は地球と地球に生きる生物に対して、生態系サービスにとって重要な豊かな生物多様性を提供している。また、森は ...