Issues & Trends

We need a (Marshall Plan) that places youth employment in Africa at the centre of development

By John Dramani Mahama and Siddharth Chatterjee

Carmakers, recyclers and tech startups are working to solve the question of how to deal with lithium-ion batteries when they wear out

Exclusive: Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review

Looking for good news? Last summer we were so pleased to see so many Monarchs in Pennsylvania and New York, more than we have seen in a decade. Eagerly awaited number of over-wintering population in Mexico confirms this impression. See updated graph below, and link to an article in the Guardiian.

Many shore communities in the U.S. face inundation in the coming decades.

It says meat production is 'one of the most destructive ways in which we leave our footprint on the planet'.

Two years after a long-lasting undersea heat wave scalded large sections of the Great Barrier Reef, scientists have found that because so many corals died, much of the reef has probably been altered “forever.”

We’re currently heading for around 3 degrees of warming

Global average temperatures have risen about 1.1 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times. At current rates, they could exceed 1.5 degrees by 2030. And global greenhouse gas emissions, after a brief lull from 2014 to 2016, are rising again.

Humans are now fishing at least 55 percent of the world’s oceans — an area four times larger than the area occupied by humanity’s onshore agriculture.

      All parents remember the moment when they first held their children—the tiny crumpled face, an entire new person, emerging from the hospital blanket. I extended my hands and took my daughter in my arms. I was so overwhelmed that I could hardly think.