In 1963, Kenya’s GDP per capita was nearly one and half larger than that of China. Yet in just three decades ending in 2020, China lifted over 850 million people out of extreme poverty. It became the first developing country …
SINGAPORE – While the fact that more women are participating in economic activities reflects the evolution of gender relations in Singapore, more needs to be done to promote gender equality, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu said on …
Whenever I need to write something important that is longer than a page, I find that it helps to allow the topic to rattle around in my head for a while. I found that in graduate school, that period lasted …
The first global-scale assessment of the role ecosystems play in providing sanitation finds that nature provides at least 18% of sanitation services in 48 cities worldwide, according to researchers in the United Kingdom and India. The study, published February 19 …
Sustainability is a concept that is becoming a lot more important to the welding profession. Tulsa Welding School has talked about some of the environmental practices that have started to change the welding profession in beneficial ways. This could be …
In early 2020, I predicted that sustainability would be the word of the year. Obviously, I was wrong and words like pandemic, masks and vaccine took over most discussions. While the pandemic is most certainly still a reality that is …
Truterra announced the launch of TruCarbon, a carbon program that is to help farmers generate and sell carbon credits to private sector buyers. TruCarbon is launching with Microsoft as its first secured buyer to purchase carbon in 2021. Truterra, LLC, …
When it comes to sustainability, reusing something that already exists is usually better than creating something new. The same goes for architecture, a fact that a local Stockholm firm exemplified with its newly unveiled project, which turned a 1990s office building into …
Early predictions about COVID-19’s impacts on Africa suggested that the continent would be a disaster zone marked by weak medical systems collapsing under strain and undemocratic states failing to provide social services to destitute populations. These predictions did not come …
A new survey has revealed that 93 per cent of UK engineering companies do not have the skills to meet net zero targets by 2050. green energy concept energy sources sustainable Ecology Elements The ‘Skills for net zero and a …
(CNN) — It’s that time of year again, when people actually look forward to watching TV commercials. Millions of viewers will tune in to Super Bowl LV, which airs Sunday evening on CBS. Despite notable brands opting out of airing commercials during …
The UK has kick-started a new initiative that brings key countries together to protect the world’s rainforests from further destruction whilst ensuring development and trade is sustainable as the host of the COP26 climate summit. The Forest, Agriculture and Commodity …
It’s not yet clear exactly how the word “conserve” will be applied to the 30% of lands and oceans that proponents are touting be done by 2030. However, President Biden has penned his support and put into motion the process …
By: Benjamin Silver, Science and Technology Intern I never imagined that a five-gigabyte software on my laptop could contain an approach to fighting environmental injustice. The keys lie somewhere between map frames and advanced geostatistical interpolations. Before interning at CHEJ, …
We are long overdue for immigration reform that fixes our guest worker visa system and provides stability for those currently working in agriculture. In every region of the country I visit, I hear from farmers who are facing shortages and …