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Draft law is intended to prosecute offences against the environment Legal experts from across the globe have drawn up a “historic” definition of ecocide, intended to be adopted by the international criminal court to prosecute the most egregious offences against the environment. The draft law, unveiled on Tuesday, defines ecocide as “unlawful or wanton acts

The system would also have very little impact on the environment, in contrast to livestock farming, scientists say Combining solar power and microbes could produce 10 times more protein than crops such as soya beans, according to a new study. The system would also have very little impact on the environment, the researchers said, in

Student Climate Network planning more demonstrations over oil firm’s funding of climate crisis exhibition A group of activists who were threatened with arrest on Saturday evening after staging an “occupation” of the Science Museum in London have vowed to renew their fight on Sunday. The London branch of the UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) organised

Publication date: October 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 188 Author(s): Ulrich Witt

The moss scientist and bestselling author reveals the secrets of these primitive plants – and what they might teach us about surviving the climate crisis Robin Wall Kimmerer can recall almost to the day when she first fell under the unlikely spell of moss. “It’s kind of embarrassing,” she says. “I’ve always been engaged with

Marine fisheries represent a social-ecological system driven by both complex ecological processes and human interactions. Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires an understanding of both the biological and social components, and management failure can occur when either are excluded. Despite the significance of both, most research has focused on characterizing biological uncertainty rather than on better understanding

Publication date: October 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 188 Author(s): Xuehong Zhu, Xuguang Zuo, Hailing Li