It is increasingly clear that human health and well-being are threatened everywhere because of global warming and environmental damage. Extreme weather events, sea level rise, increasing scarcity of ...

Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1 billion to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report. The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) ...

Monomania is a serious disorder, characterized by, according to my dictionary, “excessive concentration on a single object or idea.” In the case of much of American farming, that single object is the ...

The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three hours from Adelaide, is not the kind of countryside you see in Australian tourist brochures. The backdrop to an area of coal-fired power stations, lead ...

Above all, UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 achieved a major change in the global discourse, noting the agency of females beyond the usual portrayals of passive victimhood. It reframed the ...

日生（ひなせ）は本州の南岸に位置し、日本最大の閉鎖性海域である瀬戸内海に面している。この町は、水産業が有名であり、約200軒の漁業従事世帯がカキ養殖、小型底びき網、定置網漁を ...

Artificial meat grown in vats may be needed if the 9 billion people expected to be alive in 2050 are to be adequately fed without destroying the earth, some of the world’s leading scientists report ...

この60年間に、世界中のあらゆる場所で人口統計に大きな変化があった。例えば、急速な経済発展に伴って起こった人口増加や都市化現象などである。 これによって伝統的な生活様式は ...

The raging epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa underscores the urgent need for international cooperation for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. With its epicenter in Guinea, ...

Before last year’s triple disaster in north-east Japan, Tsuchiyu Onsen drew tens of thousands of tourists in search of the recuperative qualities of its piping hot spring water. Almost 18 months after ...

“This is one of the best beers that I have ever tried,” says Andrés Barrera. My friend is enjoying a craft beer called Atrapaniebla — Spanish for fog catcher — an ale made with water condensed from ...

人類は可能な限り早急に効果的な方法で気候変動に対応すべきだと、あなたが強く感じているなら、気候問題への反論者や懐疑論者、否定する者のバカげた行為に強い懸念を感じることが ...