Many parts of the world are experiencing severe drought, and with climate change, many of the planet's most productive agricultural regions will suffer from increased water scarcity. Agricultural ...

Being a poor country environmental lawyer, I don’t often delve into the academic world. I therefore just recently caught up to the article written last year by my friend Dan Esty. Red Lights to Green ...

Capitalism dominates the globe. It has become so enmeshed into the cultural narrative that it seems almost axiomatic. Private owners (of capital) control the means of production. The goal: build ...

Our global environment has many problems. If the high volume of carbon emission is one, the low level of intellectual engagement with some of the major environmental challenges is surely another.

Sam Weiser, a 2021-22 Environmental Ethics Fellow, and Brian Green, director, technology ethics, both at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are their own. Environmental, Social, and ...

Liisa Saikkonen will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled "Agricultural goods and bads: Essays on agriculture and environmental externalities" in the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, ...

South America's cattle ranchers are, to borrow from old cowboy-speak, enjoying one heck of a ho down. Beef consumption in countries like Uruguay (a world-record breaking 60 kilos per capita per year) ...

In Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, a radio broadcaster marvels at the wonder of coal: Consider a single piece glowing in your family’s stove. See it, children? That chunk of coal was once ...

The role of government in environmental protection There is an ongoing debate about the appropriate role of government for solving environmental problems, with many environmentalists calling for ...