Sweet sorghum has multipurpose post-harvest uses. It can produce grains, animal feed and sugary juice, making it unique among crops.
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Baby corals may hold promise for building coral reef resilience in Seychelles and beyond.
In Madagascar, communities and scientists are growing tens of thousands of baobab seedlings to restore the 1,000-year-old forests.
Business and management graduates can become the kind of sustainability champions the world needs today.
Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.
A growing number of people are opting to generate their own renewable energy and escape load shedding.
Wetlands can prevent flooding, trap carbon and support livelihoods, as long as they are protected and managed.
Just three plant species – wheat, maize and rice – account for 60% of all food eaten globally. A crop science expert argues that many of Africa’s 30,000 edible plants must be revived.
Garbage is decomposing in landfill sites across sub-Saharan Africa, releasing methane gas. If governments harnessed this as clean energy, Africa would avoid environmental damage worth US$6.7 billion.
Some geoengineering techniques are better understood than others. The US is investing in capturing carbon dioxide from the air, but ideas to block the Sun’s rays are raising big concerns.
Climate change board games can help players grasp the issues by experiencing them first-hand.
Climate innovation prizes only make up a small amount of climate research funding but are very high-profile events.
Two experts in policy and technology who were also co-authors of an international climate assessment see reasons for optimism.
Climate change and its solutions are complex. One way to understand them — and the decisions that come with them — is through “systemic storytelling.”
Learning lessons from the past could help reduce the impact of future industrialization.
This technology, popular when automobiles first caught on, had a short resurgence in the 1970s.
Solutions already exist. What’s holding humanity back is the will to get past the status quo and embrace innovation.
Planting trees and preventing deforestation can store carbon in nature, but the effect may only be temporary. If we also eliminate emissions from fossil fuels, even this temporary effect is important.
Most carbon dioxide captured in the U.S. today is used to extract more oil. Two scholars point to another way: biological sequestration.
As the state copes with hurricanes and climate disasters, it is figuring out how to manage the slow-motion loss of its coastal land. But its plans could endanger the cultures that define the region.
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Associate Professor of Climate Change, Technology and Policy, Carleton University
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Professor of Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of California, Merced
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Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of Colorado Boulder
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Affiliate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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University Senior Lecturer in Technology Policy, Cambridge Judge Business School
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Professor of Physics, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of Miami
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Assistant Professor of Civil and Architectural Engineering, University of Miami
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Professor Emeritus of Geography, Louisiana State University
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Co-Director, Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University
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Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
