40 Migratory Species Receive New or Upgraded UN Treaty Protection
Convention on Migratory Species, Bonn, Germany With populations of many migrant wildlife species in deepening decline, Parties to the Convention on
From ‘Water Terrorist’ to ‘Nobel Prize of Water’: Exiled UN Scientist Named 2026 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate
UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Toronto Prof. Kaveh Madani, architect of the ‘water bankruptcy’ framing of today’s acute
Businesses can either lead transformative change or risk extinction
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Bonn, Germany All businesses depend on and impact nature; All can
World enters “era of global water bankruptcy”; UN scientists formally define new post-crisis reality for billions
UNU Institute For Water, Environment and Health, Toronto Flagship report calls for fundamental reset of global water agenda as irreversible
Leonardo’s Art Still Carries a Biological Record of Its History
Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project, New York Renaissance artworks and historical documents associated with Leonardo da Vinci continue to preserve
Chemical evidence of ancient life detected in 3.3 billion-year-old rocks
Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington DC New method also detects molecular signs of photosynthesis almost 1 billion years earlier than
Global drought hotspots report catalogs severe suffering, economic damage in 2023-2025
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Food, water, energy crises, human tragedies in 2023-2025 detailed in sweeping analysis Fuelled by
Search for Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA narrows as researchers confirm six living relatives share a family Y chromosome
Leonardo DNA Project, New York / Florence Ancient Da Vinci family tomb: excavated remains undergo analysis VINCI, Italy — For
Canadian experts urge protection for children from escalating heat in schools and child care settings
Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health And Environment, Toronto As Canadians face increasingly intense and frequent heat waves, health, education and
Five deep changes urgently needed for a sustainable world and how to achieve them
UN University Institute for the Environment and Human Security, Bonn Amid deepening inequalities and escalating crises, including climate change, biodiversity
The material revolution: How USA’s commodity appetite evolved from 1900 to present
The Rockefeller University, Programme for the Human Environment, New York City A new study documents the dramatic change in America’s
In the News 2024
Terry Collins & Assoc., Toronto News prepared and shared on behalf of clients this year included reports on the state
IPBES: Two reports light ways to sustainability
IPBES, Bonn 1) Nexus Assessment Report: Tackle together five interlinked global crises in biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change
Three-quarters of Earth’s land became permanently drier in last three decades: UN
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Aridity: The ‘existential crisis’ redefining life on Earth; Five billion people could be affected
Planetary boundaries: Confronting the global crisis of land degradation; Potsdam Institute report opens UNCCD COP 16
UN Convention to Combat Desertification, Bonn Land degradation undermining Earth’s capacity to sustain humanity; Failure to reverse it will pose
Biodiversity COP 16: Important Agreements Reached Towards Making Peace with Nature
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal CALI, Colombia — The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
8% GDP loss by 2050 foreseen due to water crisis: Global Commission on the Economics of Water
Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Paris An international group of leaders and experts warns that unless humanity acts
E-waste experts urge: Stop trashing electronic products with ordinary garbage
WEEE Forum, Brussels To mark International E-Waste Day, Oct. 14, consumers worldwide are urged to collect dead and/or unused electronics
Causing environmental damage should be a criminal offence, say 72% of people surveyed in G20 countries
Earth4All, Winterthur, Switzerland Nearly three out of four people (72%) surveyed across 18 G20 countries support making it a criminal
Zakri columns: Science Diplomacy and Sustainability
Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Malaysia Selected columns, New Straits Times national newspaper, Kuala Lumpur “I hope that this