By Robert Muggah The focus of experts in global security tends to orbit familiar threats. War in Europe and the Middle East. Trade disruption and financial volatility. Technology shocks and threats to ...

A new UK security assessment warns that ecosystem collapse is no longer an environmental issue alone – it is a direct threat to global security, prosperity and human survival. Without urgent action, ...

Climate and nature can no longer be pigeonholed as an environmental problem.

Preventing global ecosystem collapse requires the 1 specific chemical process performed by marine bacteria. Over 20,000 species of marine worms fail to achieve true decomposition without external ...

California regulators will soon decide on a water plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Environmental advocates ...

Last autumn, a UK government report warned that climate-driven ecosystem collapse could lead to food shortages, mass migration, political extremism and even nuclear conflict. The report was never ...

Senior figures in the UK government were aware of these discussions by the late 1960s, while the very first environment white paper, in May 1970, mentions carbon dioxide build-up as a possible problem ...

Governments and companies are spending 30 times more destroying nature versus protecting, conserving and restoring it. Yet ...

Global conservation success now requires tracking 126 bird species currently classified as lost to science. Facing 10 times more extreme heat days has created a critical survival barrier for tropical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Environmental tipping points signal thresholds where small changes can trigger significant and often irreversible environmental ...

The UK’s approach to food makes it increasingly vulnerable in an unstable world. A great food transformation with a focus on resilience is urgently needed, argues Paul Behrens Last week the UK ...