Exile Nation

As thousands of would-be asylum seekers try to reach the UK, the government has hardened…

Chaos and the Hockey Stick

Personal attacks on the respected climatologist Michael Mann demonstrate…

Who Owns the Rain?

The advent of geoengineering means extraction rights will need to cover theoretical…

How the world chocolate market nearly ate itself

Peak Water: What Happens When the Wells Go Dry?

The President of the Earth Policy Institute says that…

Is Synthetic Biology a Cause For Concern?

Answering protesters at the recent SB6.0 conference 

At last week’s Sixth International Meeting on Synthetic Biology (SB6.0), delegates were met by a small band of protestors voicing opposition to…

The Cure

Africa’s healthcare systems may be transitioning out of decades of internationally funded ‘crisis mode’, and moving towards more sustainable models of public and private care provision.

When Agnes Binagwaho returned to her native Rwanda in 1996, the country’s health system was in…

Megawater: Replumbing the Modern World

For centuries humanity has built dams to tame waterways for our…

Equality=sustainability?

Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson believes greater equality could hold a key…

Make Love, Not Carbon

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