There is ongoing disagreement between the popularly elected European Parliament and the executives in the European Commission over approvals of “genetically modified” (GM) crops, which are made with modern molecular
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Fortified walls marking national borders are preventing hundreds of wild animals from migrating in an attempt to escape the effects of climate change, according to a paper published in the
The goals of the Paris Agreement aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will never be achieved without considerable changes in farming practices, according to a study published in Nature (1).
Reassessing the climate action, revisiting Baseline assumptions and avoiding ‘one-fit-all’ approach
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At the end of 2019, I had the chance to participate in a peer-review of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Although the texts
The world needs an intergovernmental panel for food systems to help reset how food systems function in the same way the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has shaped climate
The renewable energy sector will achieve record growth in 2020 despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Renewables are currently on track to overtake coal
Artificial night-time lighting has widespread impacts on the natural world, according to a new paper published on 3 November in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution (1). In particular, night-time
More big fish in the sea can reduce the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that are released into the atmosphere, according to a new study published on 28 October in
Over the past two years, climate change has fueled wildfires of extraordinary scale and duration around the world. This year, the wildfires in Australia, the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, the
Deforestation and climate change are pushing the Amazon Rainforest towards a tipping point, beyond which destruction of this critical ecosystem could be irreversible, scientists say. Nearly half of the Amazon