Environment

Written by: Martha O'Hagan Luff Despite its green image, Ireland has surprisingly little forest. Across Europe, nations average around 35 percent forest cover but in Ireland the figure is just 11 percent, one of the lowest on the continent. This hasn’t always been the...

Written by: YCC Team Near the Jersey shore, Atlantic white cedar trees grow in swampy forests that are fed by freshwater streams. Sunlight glints through dense treetops, and lush green moss blankets the dark understory. “I mean, it almost feels like you’re...

Written by: Eric Nordberg Australia’s renewable energy transition has prompted the construction of dozens of large-scale solar farms. The boom helps reduce Australia’s reliance on fossil fuels, but requires large areas of land to be converted to host solar infrastructure. Solar...

Written by: Kimberly White  The sport of fox hunting has been relegated to the past in Scotland. The Scottish Government has recently passed legislation limiting hunts to two dogs, effectively ending the use of fox hunting packs. The Hunting with Dogs...

Written by: Jewel S. Cabrera Seaweed, a common name for thousands of marine plants and algae found in different water bodies, not only provides food and shelter for marine animals, but it can also help solve the plastic pollution problem....

Written by: Christopher Boone & Karen C. Seto To meet today’s global sustainability challenges, the corporate world needs more than a few chief sustainability officers – it needs an army of employees, in all areas of business, thinking about sustainability in...

Written by: Katherine Kornei Agriculture is hard on the planet, at least in the stereotypical caricature of “big ag”: Crops are propelled to maturity with a plethora of fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides—the runoff of which pollutes waterways and triggers harmful algal...

Written by: Kimberly White The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a new funding initiative to boost environmental justice programs.  The EPA will award $100 million to projects aimed at advancing environmental justice in communities disproportionately impacted by industrial...

Written by: Chris D. Thomas, Jack Hatfield, & Katie Noble Here’s the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food, so more forests...

Written by: Kimberly White  Products linked to deforestation will soon be prohibited in marketplaces across the European Union. EU decision-makers have concluded negotiations for a groundbreaking deforestation law to prevent companies from selling products that have contributed to deforestation. The law...