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Reefs from Seychelles to South Africa may become functionally extinct due to global heating and overfishing, study finds All coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean are at high risk of collapse in the next 50 years due to global heating and overfishing, according to a new assessment. From Seychelles to the Delagoa region off

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Adelaide Baronchelli, Roberto Ricciuti

Heatwaves kill more people in Australia than all other natural disasters combined, and some experts believe naming them might help reduce deaths California has become the latest jurisdictions to set up a system that would categorise and name heatwaves like cyclones or hurricanes, raising questions about whether Australia should adopt a similar system to reduce

Nature-based solutions that incorporate “smart” technologies to enhance ecosystem services delivery may change the way people experience urban nature in their everyday lives. We lay out a conceptual basis for considering such changes and their social impacts. Cities are increasingly recognized as complex social-ecological-technological systems in which sustainability and climate resilience require environmental function to

Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng says climate crisis likely to cause future extreme weather events Storm Arwen was “an event the likes of which we haven’t seen for 60 years” and the UK needs to be prepared for more extreme weather due to the climate crisis, according to the business secretary, as more than 30,000 homes

Publication date: March 2022 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 193 Author(s): Max Koch