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Response to Environmental Damage Hints at Your Empathy Overall

Response to Environmental Damage Hints at Your Empathy Overall

Liang Lan September 20, 2022

People who respond less emotionally to images of damage to the environment are also less emotional and empathic in general,....

Victims of the ecological crisis: climate refugees

Victims of the ecological crisis: climate refugees

Rosmel Rodríguez August 06, 2022

Due to climate-related disasters, most people, although involuntarily, move within their own countries, probably to a nearby city. However, some....

'Financing our own extinction': $1.8tr in subsidies funding nature destruction every year, global study finds

'Financing our own extinction': $1.8tr in subsidies funding nature destruction every year, global study finds

Debbie Banks February 17, 2022

Major report calls for rapid action to be taken by government and business to deliver subsidy reform

U.S. Forces Are Leaving a Toxic Environmental Legacy in Afghanistan

U.S. Forces Are Leaving a Toxic Environmental Legacy in Afghanistan

Rebecca Herbert August 30, 2021

Legal and practical obstacles make it difficult to clean the burn pits and health-damaging chemicals that remain at military bases.

Human activity influencing global rainfall, study finds

Human activity influencing global rainfall, study finds

Rebecca Herbert July 08, 2021

Human activity such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use change were a key factor in extreme precipitation events such....

Socio-economic, environmental impacts of COVID-19 quantified

Socio-economic, environmental impacts of COVID-19 quantified

Karabo Meyer July 12, 2020

How is COVID-19 impacting people and the planet and what are the implications for a post-pandemic world? A new study....

Chernobyl – the world’s worst nuclear disaster revisited

Chernobyl – the world’s worst nuclear disaster revisited

Hannah Steiner April 26, 2020

The Chernobyl disaster is the worst recorded nuclear power plant disaster.

Polar bears are getting thinner and having fewer cubs. Melting sea ice is to blame

Polar bears are getting thinner and having fewer cubs. Melting sea ice is to blame

Sophie Abitz February 26, 2020

The impact of the climate crisis is becoming more and more obvious to humans and their animal neighbors. But among....