Although the pandemic has dominated headlines, climate change hasn’t gone away. Experts are calling for a “green” economic recovery with investments into low-carbon energy sources and technologies.
The struggles of Africa’s $39.2 billion tourism industry sector could cause extreme poverty, lead to an increase in poaching and severely impact wildlife populations.
Climate change will mean death outweighs growth, and tropical forests will eventually switch to releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than they take out.
With widespread closures of parks and conservation areas around the world, could this be an opportunity to transform the way we manage and use these protected environments?
The largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history began ten years ago, on April 20, 2010. Eventually, oil coated more than 1,000 miles of coastline in six states, and covered over 40,000 square miles.
A new study suggests humans, like any animal or plant, have a preferred climate or environmental niche in which they thrive – climate change will shift billions of people out of this comfort zone.
