Steven Pinker: Can Numbers Show Us That Progress Is Inevitable?
From NPR It might seem like the world is getting worse and worse. But psychologist Steven Pinker says that across the board, data suggests we’ve made a lot of progress.…
Category: News
Paul Gilding: How Do We Continue To Grow If The Earth Has Reached Its Limit?
From NPR Environmental activist Paul Gilding says the world has been growing too fast for too long. And now…the Earth is full. The only solution, he says, is to radically…
Bayer says dicamba report not new
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer said on Friday that a German media report this week that U.S. farmers were suing its Monsanto unit over crop damage caused by weedkiller dicamba does…
Demolitions to protect river spark rows in Kenyan capital
NAIROBI (Reuters) - For decades the Nairobi River has been besieged by the construction of buildings teetering perilously over its banks, bringing pollution, blockages and floods to the waterway that…
The appeal acquittal of Feisal Mohamed Ali: A victory for rule of law, a process corrupted, or both? (commentary)
Could it have come at a worse time for Kenya’s Tourism and Wildlife Ministry? With Kenya still stinging from the humiliation and embarrassment over the translocation-related deaths of 11 rhinos,…
Researchers weed out a way to identify plants using environmental DNA
What do you call seaweed that grows in ponds? Pondweed, of course. This diverse group of freshwater plants provides food and shelter for freshwater fish, birds, invertebrates, and plankton. And…
In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 17, 2018
We’ve rounded up a few stories that were published this week by other news outlets. Tropical forests The environment ministry in Brazil announces that the country has met its emissions…
Rains pile misery on India's flooded Kerala state as toll rises to 164
KOCHI/BENGALURU, India (Reuters) - The worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have killed 164 people and forced more than 200,000 into relief camps, officials said…
Russia reports severe bird flu outbreak: OIE
PARIS (Reuters) - Russia has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N2 bird flu virus on a farm in the Kostromskaya region in the west of the country, the…
WHO expects more Ebola cases in Congo, can't reach no-go areas
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it could not be certain that it had identified all people exposed to the deadly Ebola virus in…