Environmental Protection
Social science on the guard against climate change
Social science can help us deal with climate change, but there are also large gaps in our knowledge.
Antidepressants take a toll on marine life
Chemical contents of these medicinal mood-lifters are taking a toll on marine life, even in relatively concentrations.
Locals in the Balkans well up with anger at hydropower dams
Where there was once a free-flowing river, now there are piles of rubble, broken pipes and a concrete wall blocking the water.
One more reason to save sharks: their personalities
Sharks are no mere automata driven only by unquenchable blood lust. They have individual personalities, like many other animals.
Saving primary forests is vital for biodiversity and carbon storage
Simply replanting trees, to create secondary forests, is no substitute for keeping primary forests intact in the first place.
UN: to ward off cataclysmic climate change, we must act
Unless we enact drastic changes and fast, climate change will become unmanageable, the UN says.