It is not a matter of if, but when the seas rise and submerge many coastal cities. Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come, tells Eco-Business how well prepared cities are for rising seas, how to argue with climate deniers, and what sort of review he thinks Donald Trump would give his book.
A cap-and-trade system helped to eradicate acid rain in the 1990s. Could Southeast Asia's haze problem be beaten in the same way? American Financial Exchange chief Richard Sandor thinks so.
Known as the "father of environmental justice," American professor of urban planning and environmental policy Robert Bullard explains why talking about environmental injustice and climate change as two different challenges is a problem.
Frank M. Mitloehner –
Animal agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, but there is a huge misconception around the scale of the problem, writes University of California's Frank Mitloehner.
Yossi Sheffi –
Stopping economic growth in a bid to avoid the global warming crisis would be immoral. The only other way would require us to deploy our greatest natural resource, writes Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Yossi Sheffi.
The story of our food is much more than a combination of nutritional values, costs, and tastes; it is also a tale of globalization, poverty, and exploitation. If we consider how little has been done to protect the world’s agricultural workforce, what we eat should make us feel sick.
Would a carbon tax force energy corporations to either change their business priorities enough or to pay for climate mitigation? University of California, Davis' Paul Griffin examines.
As food waste increases by 33 per cent in the next 10 years, current efforts should include tapping into recent technologies including the use of biotech tools, University of Illinois' Esther Ngumbi writes.
Owen Agnew, NexusMedia –
Automakers are touting overseas investments in electric vehicles, even as they lobby for lower fuel standards in the United States.
With the tagline "Taking the Pulse of the Planet", State of the World's Birds is a major global assessment that uses bird species to measure the health of our ecosystems ...
