In this podcast, we discuss with the author of the new book 'Hot Hungry Planet' how fighting food insecurity requires a very broad-based approach that touches on politics, technology, women’s empowerment and many, many other issues.

Rivers around the world have been desecrated in every way. Now the Ganges and New Zealand’s Whanganui have legal standing, how will we protect their rights?

How a single pipeline project became the epicenter of an enormous environmental battle.

Global warming makes temperature patterns that cause heatwaves, droughts and floods across Europe, north America and Asia more likely, scientists find

Not only are overfishing and climate change wrecking ecologies, they are also having a profound impact on communities that rely on fish for protein and micronutrients.

Malaysian activist Bill Kayong fought to save native forest lands from logging and oil palm development. Like a troubling number of environmental campaigners around the world, he paid for it with his life.

WHO reports highlighted that children are exposed to harmful chemicals through food, water, air and products around them. Photo: HT

By Erica Martin It’s often assumed that in the modern era, food security is an achievable goal. But between 2007 and 2008, a confluence of conditions shook the international food system to its core, fueling unrest and riots in more than 40 nations around the world. What’s more, this “perfect storm” may have been only a harbinger of challenges to ...

The report is a potent tool for PSR members and others opposing the headlong rush to replace coal-fired power plants with methane gas.

If summer sea ice ever does come back, it’s hard to know how a remade Arctic would work ... “There will be an ecosystem. It will function. It just may not look like the one we currently have.”

Typically, scientists are reluctant to engage in what could be perceived as political activism. But many researchers are now pushing back against what they call unprecedented attacks on climate change research by the Trump administration.