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Can tourism alleviate global poverty?
Wouldn’t it be great if something as simple and pleasurable as international travel could help end s...
From New York to Romania, restoration ecology is helping nature heal (and maybe humanity, too)
New York City’s Bronx River used to be an open sewer, more useful for carrying industrial waste than...
Biofuel breakthroughs bring ‘negative emissions’ a step closer
The use of biofuels helps reduce human greenhouse gas emissions. That’s one reason why some petroleu...
Can the world’s megacities survive the digital age?
Today, megacities have become synonymous with economic growth. In both developing and developed coun...
Open soil science: technology is helping us discover the mysteries under our feet
Have you ever taken the time to stop and consider the dirt under your feet? Leonardo da Vinci said:...
Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy will make hurricane recovery brutal – here’s why
The United States had already seen its share of disasters, from back-to-back hurricanes that devasta...
Why seismologists didn’t see Mexico’s deadly earthquake coming
Mexico has a long seismic history, so any given earthquake here does not necessarily come as a surpr...
In Vietnam poverty and poor development, not just floods, kill the most marginalised
Flooding and landslides in northwest Vietnam have caused widespread devastation since the start of A...
How our environment can induce allergies even before we’re born
Is this the worst Northern Hemisphere allergy season yet? For many people – both those who’ve suffer...
How the gas industry can help fight climate change in Siberia
Permafrost is the layer of permanently frozen earth – over a 1,000 metres thick in some places – th...