Natural Global Resources

International consensus on cross-border environmental issues has been difficult to achieve, but the 40-year-old Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air-Pollution (or...

This article was originally posted on Thomson Reuters Foundation News. As thousands of urban leaders gather in Abu Dhabi for...

Global tree cover loss reached record highs in 2016 and 2017. In 2018, roughly one soccer field of tree cover...

It took just one summer in Woods Hole as a college student for Jane Lubchenco to decide what she wanted...

The Chuckegg Creek wildfire sparked in Alberta, Canada on May 12, 2019. Over the next three months, the blaze burned...

The Trillion Trees Initiative has garnered support from business and political leaders around the world. U.S. President Trump highlighted the...

In the 21st century, a seemingly global prosperity masks an unequal distribution of benefits. Nowhere is this more apparent than...

Climate actions have often fallen into one of two strategies: mitigation efforts to lower or remove greenhouse gas emissions from...

Forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. So in 2014, hundreds of governments and corporations made a landmark pledge to...

Humanity’s thirst for freshwater has more than doubled since the 1960s, keeping pace with growing populations and economies.  One-quarter of...