Environmental Protection
Environmentalists urge green rescue plans for our economies
While businesses such as aviation and tourism will evidently require rescue packages to stay afloat, leaders should move away from the temptation to revert back to fossil fuel dependence.
Without tourism, Venice is in the clear
The crowds have disappeared from Venice, but the reprieve is also a chance to rethink how the city deals with tourism in the future.
Does the Corona pandemic have a silver lining?
It may be a cynical premise to argue at a time when countries all over the world are locking down, severely restrict public life and face the consequences of dropping industrial production. But it seems that there is a winner
The COVID-19 outbreak is adding to plastic pollution
"We are now seeing the effect of the outbreak on the environment,” an environmentalist says.
We now know where most plastic trash goes in the oceans
Of all the plastic that enters Earth’s oceans each year, just 1% has been observed floating on the surface.
The planet’s largest ecosystems could ‘unravel fast’
Larger ecosystem may be prone to sudden collapses once they have been pushed past a tipping point.