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This year could be crucial in determining the response to the environmental crises World leaders and business chiefs meeting in Davos this week will be confronted for the first time with an agenda on which the climate and ecological crises take top billing. Financial and economic concerns have been shunted down the list of priorities

Retired colleagues and I have regularly shared ideas and actions with young people, writes XR member Dr Lesley Morrison. It is disappointing to be judged as a ‘threat to the young’, says Maureen Wilsker Anne Karpf writes about the “unthinking ageism” that she thinks has crept into the climate movement. (Ageism must not pollute the

‘Never in our wildest dreams did we think our over-the-top storylines about floods and food shortages would come true’ In 1980, America’s Global 2000 Report to the President took the current trends of the planet – population pressures, overstretched resources – and projected them 20 years into the future. It read like armageddon. CNN founder

Amazonia is under threat. Biodiversity and redundancy loss in the Amazon biome severely limits the long-term provision of key ecosystem services in diverse spatial scales (local, regional, and global). Resilience thinking attempts to understand the mechanisms that ensure a system’s capacity to recover in the face of external pressures, trauma, or disturbances, as well as

Protecting biodiversity, either for its own sake or for its value to humanity, is a principal goal of conservation efforts worldwide. For this reason, many studies on the social science of resource management and governance seek to quantify biodiversity outcomes. Here, we focus on the International Forestry Resources and Institutions program to demonstrate some of

Both bailing out the failing airline and pushing on with HS2 will be disastrous for the environment, writes Prof Bill McGuire, while Isabella Stone says politicians must make it clear conserving the biosphere is in all our interests In his discussion of Flybe and HS2 (Growth versus green? The short-term view always prevails, Journal, 16