Nothing as it seems

One of the most unexpected gifts of the Covid-19 lockdown: after nearly half a century the Himalayan peaks are visible from Nepal’s Kathmandu valley, 200...

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Energy’s lost weekend

The coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a health crisis, but it will have long-lasting effects on most areas of the global economy, not least...

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Climate change forces virus migration

“All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.” This quote is from The Scarlet Plague written by Jack London...

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Design a doughnut-shaped city: a change-proof approach

How can cities become socially just and secure homes for people while respecting the health of the planet in a post-pandemic world? Is protecting the...

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As sea level rise threatens their ancestral village, a Louisiana tribe fights to stay put

Ten years ago, as news of the BP oil disaster reached Louisiana’s Grand Bayou Indian Village, Rosina Philippe dispatched her brother Maurice Phillips on a...

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The soil solution

On a steely November morning, Dorn Cox tours me around the dairy farm where he works in Freeport, Maine. The hummocky coastal landscape has begun...

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Methanol: from grim to green

Isolated for the first time in 1661 by the Irish chemist and physicist Robert Boyle from the distillation of boxwood, methanol (or methyl alcohol) was...

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Investors’ role in a carbon-neutral 2050

Internationally only a handful of pension funds have committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 and have developed an approach to achieving that goal. In...

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Avenger Planet: is the Covid-19 Pandemic Mother Nature’s response to human transgression?

As the coronavirus sweeps across the planet, leaving death and mayhem in its wake, many theories are being expounded to explain its ferocity. One, widely...

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Next Up: The Climate Emergency

My new book went to press just as the coronavirus pandemic was starting. If I were still working on The Green New Deal and Beyond:...

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East Perth

The abandoned East Perth Power Station is one of Australia’s most significant industrial heritage buildings due to its unique assortment of machinery and equipment that...

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