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Desertification: the world is losing healthy land at an astonishing rate

Nearly 13 per cent of Azerbaijan is deemed degraded, much is desert. Image: Denis Sv/Shutterstock Data shows at least 100 million hectares of healthy land is lost each year to desertification, drought and land degradation. Can anything halt it? By Tom Howarth The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has launched its new ‘Data Dashboard’, […]


A Million Gallons of Oil May Have Spilled Into the Gulf of Mexico

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The Coast Guard has spotted an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which may have released a million gallons of oil into the ecosystem. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman reports.


The Peak Oil Demand Debate: A Major Focus at COP 28

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The upcoming COP 28 climate conference, scheduled from November 30th to December 12th, is expected to be dominated by discussions surrounding peak oil demand. The International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts that global oil demand will reach its peak by the end of the current decade, while OPEC and oil majors strongly disagree and plan to […]


Malthus’s theory, 200 years later

On November 15 of this 2022, humanity reached an unprecedented milestone, as the number of the world’s inhabitants reached eight billion people. This is a turning point in the history of human evolution. Until the beginning of the 19th century, Earth’s population had not reached one billion people. But in less than a century, this […]


Over half of world’s largest lakes, reservoirs in decline

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A study published Thursday revealed that over 50% of the planet’s biggest lakes and reservoirs are experiencing a decline, posing a significant threat to the future water security of humanity. The study identifies climate change and unsustainable consumption as the primary factors responsible for this concerning trend.     “Lakes are in trouble globally, and […]


Brazil is foregoing oil wealth in favor of environmental goals

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Brazil’s top environmental regulator rejected a planned offshore oil drilling project by the state-owned oil company Petrobras near the origin of the Amazon River in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday (May 18), showcasing the government’s commitment to environmental conservation. In his written decision, Rodrigo Agostinho—the regulatory agency’s president—cited the possibility of oil spills in an […]


Scientists Discover Fungi That Can Eat Plastic in Just 140 Days

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Our planet has a plastic problem. Accumulated waste and constant production have resulted in mounds of trash around the globe and bobbing in our oceans. Recycling is a good step, but it is limited by the technology’s availability and the condition of the plastic in question. With 175 million tonnes (192.9 million tons) of plastic […]


India population to surpass China mid-year

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India is set to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by mid-year with almost three million more people, UN estimates showed on Wednesday. India’s population will be 1.4286 billion compared to China’s 1.4257 billion at mid-year, the United Nations Population Fund’s State of World Population report showed. The number of people in China […]


Peak Oil And The Flawed Logic Of Infinite Economic Growth

Join activist Keith Akers in a fascinating deep-dive interview on climate change and ecological sustainability. In his upcoming book, Embracing Limits, Akers asks tough questions about the impact of anthropogenic climate change and proposes a truly sustainable future with economic degrowth at its core. In this conversation, Akers discusses his personal journey in learning about […]


World population could fall to 6 billion by 2100: study denies UN estimates

The UN is wrong: in 2100 the number of inhabitants of the earth will not be 10.9 billion, but much less than the 8 billion reached in November. This is because global population decline will begin much earlier than the end of the century, perhaps within the next 30-40 years. The economist of Hsbc James […]


Limits to Growth Revisited

Oh my God — we’re doomed.  The UN’s Panel on Climate Change came out with a frightening report earlier this month that we are sitting on a global time bomb, and according to CNN, “time is running out,” without immediate drastic action.  The UN report states that if global temperatures reach 1.5 C above the pre-industrial […]


“Population bomb” could be less damaging then predicted, new study suggest

A recent study estimates the global population will hit a peak of 8.8 billion around the middle of this century, before rapidly declining soon after. Prior studies predicted the “population bomb” to go off later with a higher worldwide population, coupled with more catastrophic results. Despite the optimistic outcome of this study, it is only […]


The Anthropocene Has Created A New Disease: Plasticosis

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A recently published study appearing in the journal PLOS ONE has found since 2005 a rapid increase in plastic particles in the oceans of the world. The data was collected from 11,777 surface water sampling stations. The research covers the period from 1995 to 2019 and estimates that between 1.1 and 4.9 million tons of […]


Examining Alaska’s Biggest Oil Drilling Project in Decades

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Breaking down the recent decision to approve the Willow oil project in Alaska, which also requires new habitat safeguards for the North Slope This week, the Biden Administration approved a scaled-back version of a major oil project on Alaska’s North Slope. The decision to greenlight the ConocoPhillips Willow project was announced on Monday, following many […]


EU agrees to push for worldwide phaseout of fossil fuels

European Union countries have agreed to push for the global phaseout of fossil fuels at COP28. It is part of the bloc’s promise to support and accelerate the energy transition ahead of the climate summit in Dubai this November. Faced with climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and the fallout of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the […]


Beware a climate ‘doom loop,’ where crisis is harder to solve

The devastating effects of climate change on Earth could become so overwhelming that they undermine humanity’s capacity to tackle climate change’s root causes, researchers warned Wednesday. They are calling it a “doom loop.” The self-reinforcing dynamic, outlined in a report jointly published Wednesday by two British think tanks, warns of a spiral effect: Governments risk expending […]


Gaia’s Way Out

“Gaia is no dummy. She is in the process of shifting from supporting humanity to killing it off. “       I’ve never completed writing a book without offering a positive solution. Granted, those are sometimes long shots. Some may even be futile. But we don’t know unless we try and if we don’t […]


No, the World Is Not Heading Toward ‘Mass Extinction’

Have you heard? The world is about to end! 60 Minutes recently featured Paul Ehrlich, author of the bestseller, The Population Bomb. “Humanity is not sustainable,” he said. Why would 60 Minutes interview Ehrlich? For years, Ehrlich said, “We are very close to a famine” and, “In the next 15 years, the end will come.” […]


Liquid asset: why we won’t solve the climate crisis without fixing water

Water is an impact multiplier for sustainability and inextricably linked to climate change and the degradation of ecosystems. Ninety per cent of natural disasters are water-related – whether flood, drought, or super-storm – causing millions in damages annually. With each passing year, there are more record-setting wet and dry seasons, affecting livelihoods, creating supply chain […]


Ehrlich To 60 Minutes: ‘Next Few Decades Will Be End Of The Kind Of Civilization We’re Used To’

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90-year-old biologist and Ecoscience author Paul Ehrlich fearmongered about global warming during a recent appearance on CBS‘s “60 Minutes.” Ehrlich, a known eugenicist who incorrectly predicted millions of deaths from famine by the 1980s, warned “humanity is not sustainable” and that “The next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re […]


It’s the elephant in the room: can we grow the economy without destroying nature?

There’s a silence at the heart of our economic statistics. Every quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes a number that shows how much economic activity has taken place in Australia recently. We’ve all been conditioned to think it’s a good thing if that number goes up a little each time. But what was the environmental cost of that […]


Eight billion people means ‘all of the above’ energy strategy

World population recently reached the eight billion milestone, according to estimates from the United Nations. That’s up from about 2.5 billion people in 1950, with a gain of a billion since 2010. However, population growth rates are falling, and the total will likely peak at around 10.4 billion in the 2080s. The United States remains […]


Can we prevent the extinction of species?

ASK any class of schoolchildren who are steeped in knowledge and experience of the natural world, who have been on many field trips to the forests and the sea, and have seen numerous documentaries on wildlife and the challenges and harm being done to our planet, what they want to do or be when they […]


Forecast: Perfect Storm in Egypt, Part I

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“They need to loosen regulations, they need to release all those permits sitting on someone’s desk for drilling on federal lands, and they need to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to come down to deliver the Canadian oil sands to American consumers,” said Darlene Wallace, a board member of the Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance. “And […]


Global Warming is Energy Surplus in a World Primarily in Deficit

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Where demand-pull inflation describes an imbalance in aggregate supply versus aggregate demand. Where the average inflation rate for July for the G7 countries was 8.4%. Where Europe and the Asia-Pacific economies face an escalating energy crisis, global warming should be an economist’s dream. It is a global surplus of heat energy chasing too few ways […]


Solar radiation will increase 2300 times: this is what science tells us about the future of our star

The development that astrophysics has experienced during the last century has been spectacular. The human being has always felt an enormous fascination for the objects that he could observe in the sky, so much so that we know for sure that Socrates and Plato reflected on them and their nature. nearly two and a half […]


Let’s stop scaring the children

How long will it be before someone writes a book about all the “C”s currently crowding our collective consciousnesses? Cost of living; climate change; COP26; cryptocurrency and coercion towards control. Maybe even corruption or conspiracy theories? We mustn’t forget Covid! The fear is once again palpable. But there’s nothing new here! In 1982 in my […]


Where We’ll End Up Living as the Planet Burns

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While nations rally to reduce their carbon emissions, and try to adapt at-risk places to hotter conditions, there is an elephant in the room: for large portions of the world, local conditions are becoming too extreme and there is no way to adapt. People will have to move to survive. Over the next fifty years, hotter […]


The planet is approaching 8 billion people. We’re not ready

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Last month, the United Nations Population Division issued its World Population Prospects 2022 report, which forecast that the human population will reach and surpass 8 billion on Nov. 15. In a carefully worded statement on the report, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres declared 2022 a “milestone” year. He had good reason to choose his words […]


How Well Do We Know Climate Change?

I have been following the developments on this critical global issue ever since my first paper on Global Warming at the Hamburg International Conference in early 1990s.  Although a few thoughts have been penned here and there, its complexity seems to be getting more challenging as we progress year after year. It is also not […]


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