Archive for 2020
Climate change and Covid-19 increase pressure on potable water resources
The Covid-19 pandemic is adding to already severe health concerns in communities without adequate freshwater.
Much of Europe is bidding adieu to coal
Europe was once wedded inextricably to coal. It no longer is.
Covid-19 pandemic is a foretaste of what’s in store for rice
It was climate change that helped rice spread and climate change that is now posing a threat to rice crops.
Lock up your cat: it’s a killing machine
Across Australia alone, feral cats collectively kill more than three billion animals per year.
Insects may not be doomed… if we leave them be
A mass extinction is under way and many people remain oblivious to it. A reason is that it involves insects.
Asia-Pacific nations must ‘work together’ to save their ocean
"Our survival in Asia and the Pacific are anchored to oceans," stresses Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana,executive secretary of UN ESCAP.