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One economist is gaining traction with his radical prescription for world woes.

What is progress? Before answering this question, let's appreciate a statistic that Britain’s Royal Statistical Society has correctly decided is international statistic of the year: "90.5 percent of plastic is not recycled." What does this mean? Clearly little progress has been made in the direction of making plastics cheaper. This would be the consequence of reducing the production or synthesis of new plastic products and looping the spent energy locked in used plastics for as...

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The pace of change is threatening to raise water levels and create deserts, scientists say

All of the phases of water—solid, liquid and vapor—relate to glacier dynamics. Water has unique qualities that come into play in understanding the roles glaciers play in the Earth system. For example, water expands rapidly when it freezes—an increase of about 9% by volume. Also, water enters the atmosphere through the familiar cycle of [...]

With China refusing foreign waste under its new policy, countries are forced to handle their own plastic pollution

The 2018 Arctic Report Card also shows sea ice reached its second-lowest extent on record, creating more challenges for coastal people and ecosystems.

One conservation group warns that the move shows "a troubling disregard for international rule".

According to the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), since 1970 60% of the mammals, birds, fish and reptiles on the planet have been driven to extinction. To the extent that the WWF has it right, climate change accounts for less than 10% of these losses (graph below). As important and logistically complex as resolving climate change is, it is but one of a host of environmental ills in equal or greater need of resolution. More

Basic ocean food critical for the whole ecosystem is in dramatic decline and scientists don't know exactly why.

In an attempt to cut down illegal fishing from foreign boats, the Somalian president gave up the country's fishing rights to China.

Sediment cores show ice sheet vanished during conditions similar to today

Facts about the environment, Kylie Jenner and Jaffa cakes all make the list.

How a new herbicide pitted farmer against farmer in Arkansas

The impact of global warming will also affect the quality reducing the concentration of grain protein. The heavy rainfall due to climate stress will affect the production of tomato and onion and production of the latter may go down by 27 percent in 2020.