OECD complaint alleges top firm has increased investments in companies implicated in environmental devastation

Two men, Naoto Matsumura and Sakae Kato, both still live in the Fukushima exclusion zone where they are taking care of animals.

Researchers have analyzed crop yields of more than 1,500 fields on six continents and found that a lack of pollinators is limiting the production worldwide of important, nutritionally dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes.

Research shows ‘forever chemicals’ increasingly found in products as agency claims the chemicals aren’t being used

US agency found PFOS and other types of PFAS in pesticides but failed to disclose those results, watchdog group alleges

Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

The human brain evolved over millions of years. Most psychologists agree, it's good at responding to immediate threats.

It's terrible at responding to slow, gradual threats, even when they're far more important. As Brian Merchant writes in Vice, "Humans have, historically, proven absolutely awful, even incapable, of comprehending the large, looming... slow burn threats facing their societies." In Collapse, Jared Diamond chronicles how leaders of past civilizations failed to address clear dangers because it was easier to shrug them off and downplay them.

A CalMatters investigation finds that environmentally stringent California sends nearly half its toxic waste across its borders, often to states with weaker rules. One of the biggest out-of-state dumpers: the state’s own hazardous waste watchdog.

Using hydrogen and UV light, scientists reported destroying 95% of two kinds of toxic PFAS chemicals in tap water in under an hour.

It’s morally lazy to hope for things turn out better without doing anything to adapt to the present reality. In fact, the word “hope” lately seems to mean accepting horrible situations as given, resigning to let things happen, and abandoning principles because acting on them takes too much effort.

Sri Lanka: the researchers calculated the average human exposure as 2,675 airborne microplastic particles per person every year.

An estimated 1 per cent of total energy consumption on Earth is used just to serve online ads.

Hardin was wrong. There was not a tragedy of overuse. The Commons were dismantled by the state to make room for the formal economy and higher income user groups. I revisit the history of the Commons as a central, planned space in cities in order to ask two main questions. First, what role did the Commons play for cities and how is its lost felt? Second, how might planning reintroduce the Commons? In response, this research builds a functional theory of self-sufficiency at multiple scales of governance based on the opportunities of the Commons. The conclusion charts an urgent agenda for planning practice during a global population phase shift as cities increasingly house a greater proportion of humanity.