The Land Matrix is an online public database of large-scale land deals. It provides a visualisation of records documenting land deals…
TerraDaily: It’s a message no one wants to hear: To slow down global warming, we’ll either have to put the…
Royal Society: Rapid and widespread changes in the world’s human population, coupled with unprecedented levels of consumption present profound challenges…
A 50 percent reduction in meat consumption and emissions is needed
Woods Hole Research Center: Meat consumption in the developed world…
Country sizes show the carbon footprint of all goods and services consumed in a nation, including imports and excluding exports.…
Guardian: Huge increase in large-scale mining is being fuelled by the rising price of metals and oil, as search for…
(AlertNet) – Asia Pacific could triple its carbon emissions by 2050 if it continues its unsustainable use of resources, putting…
GFDRR: Urban flooding is a serious and growing development challenge. It is a global phenomenon which causes widespread devastation, economic…
viewsoftheworld: World Population 2085
A lot has changed from the 2.5…
FOE: More than 60 per cent of land consumed in Europe is imported while US demand for imported land increased…
NATURE Climate Change: On 31 October 2011, according to projections made by the United Nations (UN), there will be seven…
ScienceDaily — In the next 20 years, more than 590,000 square miles of land globally — more than twice the size…
A new report by the U.S. Energy Information Agency predicts that worldwide energy consumption will surge 53 percent between 2008 and…
Center for Biological Diversity
Our planet’s nearing a milestone: By the end of October, there will be a staggering 7 billion…
In the 29 July 2011 issue, Science examines the opportunities and challenges created by demographic changes around the world.
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INED: THE world population will reach seven billion later this year, with increases in the number of people in Africa…
Yale Environment360: With global population expected to surpass 7 billion people this year, the staggering impact on an overtaxed planet…
The new maps show the social and physical environment in relation to population and provide a fresh perspective on the…
BY LESTER BROWN | JANUARY 10, 2011
As the new year begins, the price of wheat is setting an all-time high in the…
The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that the planet has entered a new geological age, the Anthropocene. It recommends a suite of…
The current world population of close to 7 billion is projected to reach 10.1 billion in the next ninety years,…
There have never been more people on earth then now, and we have never consumed more energy, but could the…
The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries,…
In 2011 the world population will likely reach 7 billion people, just a dozen years after hitting 6 billion. Surprisingly,…
EPI: We are facing issues of near-overwhelming complexity and unprecedented urgency. Can we think systemically and fashion policies accordingly? Can…
Stockholm Resilience Center: Centre director Johan Rockström among prominent list of speakers at State of the Planet 2010.
Rockström was among…
