Planetary Boundary

A new contest is searching for solutions to a defining problem of the AI era: soaring energy consumption. The Energy Innovation for AI Startup Challenge launches amid growing concern ...

According to the latest study from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), ocean acidification is approaching a critical threshold. The researchers warn that the seventh...

What does "healthy" AI mean to you?

A whopper of a book, Growth is a meticulous and cross-disciplinary survey of growth in living and non-living systems by energy expert Vaclav Smil that is full of insightful ideas.

Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental costs, researchers say

Europe's push to abandon capitalism is motivated by optimism about politics—and pessimism about everything else.

In the Global North, measures to stop climate change cannot double as ways to further economic growth

Nearly all the world's governments and vast numbers of its people are convinced that addressing human-induced climate change is essential if healthy societies are to survive. The two solutions most often proposed go by various names but are widely known as "green growth" and "degrowth." Can these ideas be reconciled? What do both have to say about the climate challenge?

Media Matters reports that Shell has been trying to reach a younger demographic by partnering with Fortnite creators and sponsoring popular gamers to create and promote the...

Sir Richard Branson's next mission: combating climate change.

NAIROBI, Sep 22 (IPS) - African countries are increasingly in the eye of deadly climate-induced disasters. Recent devastating extreme events include intense shattering earthquakes in Morocco, followed shortly by catastrophic floods in Libya this September that left 11,300 people dead, according to Libya's Red Crescent.

Between 1500 and 2022, two orders, 10 families, and 71 genera of animals went extinct thanks to humans

According to a recently published analysis based on numerous studies, Earth has crossed six out of nine environmental boundaries that have maintained the conditions under which human...

Only three planetary boundaries are within a safe operating space — and even they are under extreme pressure

The Norrsken Foundation's latest list of 100 high-potential impact startups is published this month. Niklas Adalberth tells Trevor Clawson why impact should be celebrated

If Earth were to get an annual health checkup akin to a person's physical exam, a doctor would say the planet is "really quite sick right now."That's how Joyeeta Gupta, professor of environment and development at the University of Amsterdam, put it at a Wednesday press conference accompanying the pu...

Collectively, we are driving Earth and civilization towards collapse. Human activities have exceeded planetary boundaries. We are changing the climate, losing biodiversity, degrading land, contaminating freshwater, and damaging the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles upon which we all depend.

Ammonia has been in the news because of its suitability as a hydrogen carrier and fuel, in addition to being a vital ingredient in fertiliser. Existing distribution networks and the ease of turning ammonia gas into a liquid make ammonia a cost-effective way to transport renewable energy. For a given volume, ammonia—a molecule made up of three hydrogen atoms and one nitrogen atom—carries about 50% more hydrogen…

A new report lays out a pathway for global population to peak at 8.5 billion by 2040, and fall below 6 billion by 2100

The following is an interview with ESG expert professor Kim Schumacher of Kyushu University.