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21 Outubro 2021
Fresh water, clean air, peace of mind – natural landscapes make life better for humans in myriad ways. Now scientists are trying to put a dollar figure on exactly how much nature is worth.
Tucked away in the Scottish Highlands, in an old commercial forest known as Birchfield near Loch Ness, is a…
19 Outubro 2021
Dear colleagues and members of the Housing, Land, and Property Area of Responsibility,
Access to, use and control of housing land and property (HLP) is one of the principal factors determining the economic and social wellbeing of women and is essential for women to survive displacement and recover…
5 Outubro 2021
'O único crescimento sustentável é o decrescimento' - Kamiel Choi/Pixabay
Precisamos parar de ter debates em que não nos ouvimos para nos unirmos contra os verdadeiros inimigos da justiça ambiental
Por Beth Stratford
A disputa sobre os limites ecológicos do crescimento (econômico) está de volta…
27 Setembro 2021
Our food system doesn’t work for everyone. The UN’s 2021 report on food security says 118 million more people have been pushed into hunger since the pandemic – we’re now heading towards a billion people (currently 928 million) living with severe food insecurity around the world.
This week’s Food…
15 Setembro 2021
Private financial flows that are tracked against certain Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria reached record highs in 2020. But this boom may not be having a material impact, especially in low-income countries (LICs) which are most in need of it. Identifying and managing unknown…
Call for Papers: Building Power, Deepening Democracy: Global Perspectives on Environmental Justice ()
25 Agosto 2021
Submission Deadline: All manuscripts should be submitted for consideration by December 31, 2021.
The global environmental crisis is intertwined with the crisis of social and economic inequality. From coal plants to palm oil plantations, economic activities that threaten the planet are concentrated…
9 Agosto 2021
Por DAVID KAIMOWITZ
El 17 de febrero de este año, a causa de la covid-19, murió Aruká Juma, el último anciano del pueblo juma en la selva amazónica del Brasil. Según la ONG Instituto Socioambiental, él es uno de los más de mil indígenas que han muerto por el coronavirus en el Brasil, donde la…
CALL FOR PAPERS: Building Power, Deepening Democracy: Global Perspectives on Environmental Justice ()
5 Agosto 2021
Submission Deadline: All manuscripts should be submitted for consideration by December 31, 2021.
The global environmental crisis is intertwined with the crisis of social and economic inequality. From coal plants to palm oil plantations, economic activities that threaten the planet are concentrated…
Mudanças climáticas jogam humanidade em era de incerteza e ameaçam gerar “ruptura social”, diz IPCC ()
5 Agosto 2021
Pesca no lago Kaptai, em Chittagong (Bangladesh). No pior dos cenários, em que não se consiga conter o aquecimento global, o estudo adverte que o nível de emissões atual conduziria a um aumento de até cinco graus nas montanhas e uma perda de dois terços de suas geleiras até 2100.ALEX TREADWAY /…
3 Agosto 2021
Mining in the context of climate of climate change brings new challenges to the industry and exacerbates already existing sustainability problems. This Datastory highlights some of these tensions while pointing towards emerging best practice. The findings are based on document analysis and semi-…
30 Julho 2021
Por: JUAN F. SAMANIEGO
Desde que se licenció como biólogo en 1988, por las manos de Fernando Valladares ha pasado mucha ciencia. Ahora, su dilatada labor ha sido reconocida con el premio Rei Jaume I de Protección del Medio Ambiente.
El jurado que ha fallado el premio ha destacado su trabajo para…
30 Julho 2021
There is some irony in that many of the terms – ‘thesaurus’, ‘taxonomy’, ‘controlled vocabulary’ ‘ontology’ – that are intended to bring order and clarity to our use of language in professional settings are themselves subject to diverse interpretations and application. This is in large part because…