Abalobi provides a real-time marketplace for fishers to sell their catch, while also monitoring fish populations, and the tech could go global The 59-year-old Wilfred Poggenpoel is a fisher from Lambert’s Bay, a picturesque town 170 miles north of Cape Town that’s popular with surfers and home to 17,000 breeding pairs of Cape gannets. Five years ago,...

Developing a daily practice of sustainability can help ease your anxiety about the future – so I tried it out for a weekWhen it comes to climate change, I, like many others, often wonder: does it matter if we adjust our individual behaviors to be more sustainable, or are these efforts insignificant?Many experts argue that focusing too granularly on...

Your daily caffeine habit is not good for the planet. Thankfully, researchers are finding alternatives to ground coffee beansName: Synthetic coffee.Age: Three. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Mukhtar Babayev says clear accounting crucial to build trust as developing world seeks trillions in supportPoor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said.Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerbaijan,...

This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall, but last week’s storms were particularly devastatingTorrential rainstorms in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have caused the worst flooding the country has seen in 80 years, many deaths and the displacement of thousands of families. Central parts of the state were hit the...

Llanilar, Ceredigion: Walking an old railway route I find carpets of bluebells under the canopy, and a burst of fresh foliageThe buttercups are coming into flower in the churchyard of St Hilary’s, and a few dandelions have already set seed – the globular heads barely moving in the still morning air. Nearby, a metal plaque, slightly corroded by time...