India stands at a turning point in its agricultural journey. Its fertilizer subsidy programme, a cornerstone of its food-security strategy, now threatens the sustainability it aims to ensure1. The programme needs reform. In the current system, the government pays subsidies to fertilizer manufacturers so they don’t need to charge as much for their products. This […]
The Billie Eilish-co-founded climate sustainability conference Overheated is getting fired up again. The musician will appear as a speaker at the forthcoming event scheduled for Nov. 3 at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta. She will be joined by more than a dozen panelists assembled to engage in important conversations about climate change and sustainability […]
Haut is a 21-story timber-hybrid high-rise completed in Amsterdam in 2022. It was designed by the British engineering collective Arup and Team V, a Dutch architecture firm. Haut has 55 apartments, a bicycle parking area, an underground parking garage, and an urban garden. It was the first residential building in the Netherlands to receive certification […]
The RIFT House is an award winning home that showcases how the power of architecture and engineering … [+] can deliver better performance. Fotovan.com A rift valley is by definition a long valley where the land has sunk down between parallel faults. There is a rift valley on the Rio Grande in the desert of […]
An advanced ‘in memory’ computing chip developed by researchers from Princeton University, New Jersey, and US firm EnCharge AI. Credit: Scott Lyon In the late 1990s, some computer scientists realized that they were hurtling towards disaster. Makers of computer chips had been able to make computers more powerful on a reliable schedule by cramming ever […]
On 22 September, delegates at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City applauded after approving the Pact for the Future. Comprising 56 promises — on issues such as peace and security, sustainable development, climate change and human rights — the pact would more aptly be named the Laundry List for the Future. Rather […]
Monica Contestabile 00:10 Hello. This is How to Save Humanity in 17 Goals, a podcast brought to you by Nature Careers in partnership with Nature Sustainability. I am Monica Contestabile, chief editor of Nature Sustainability. This is the series where we meet the researchers working towards the Sustainable Development Goals agreed by the United Nations […]
Bertrand Piccard says sustainability doesn’t have to come at a cost—and that reframing attempts to hit net zero as a way of generating profit could be key to hitting targets.
What sorts of offsets do you focus on? People have different opinions as to what is good enough, and they’re not all equal. We primarily focus on the creation of renewable energy, since that’s what gives the best positive impact to using electric vehicles. Where we can, it’s technology in the countries in which we […]
