Surviving the Future

For centuries humanity has built dams to tame waterways for our consumption, but our obsession with engineering is becoming unsustainable.

The ethical, individual approach to mitigating anthropogenic climate change is limited

Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson believes greater equality could hold a key to global sustainability.

Back to the Future — With a Dollop of History

Could re-creating previously extinct species recreate whole prehistoric ecosystems, and even prevent catastrophic climate change?

New research shows that a warmer world is a more violent one

The advent of geoengineering means extraction rights will need to cover theoretical resources as well as physical ones

Personal attacks on the respected climatologist Michael Mann demonstrate how difficult it is for rational discourse on climate change.

Dry fields, flooded cities and denuded forests: what Britain’s new prince will inherit

Answering protesters at the recent SB6.0 conference

Food, money and politics—In this second of two extracts from his latest book, “The Great African Land Grab?”,

The price of food post-globalisation is often invisible consequences.

The President of the Earth Policy Institute says that the real threat to humanity’s future is our overuse of water resources.

The search for better meat, or, whatever happened to the Enviropig?

in a place like Bangalore…

Management disputes and personality clashes may be shaking apart the vision of a giant Saharan solar network to power Europe, but fracking…

Swarm intelligence could be the key to automating marine conservation.

Welcome to Surviving the Future

In East Africa, the legacy of Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug lives on in the fight against a virulent crop disease.

At least we are talking about climate change again.