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Strengthening the Rights of Forest Guardians Can Reduce Future Pandemic Risk
A recent webinar discussed a critical yet often overlooked strategy for pandemic mitigation: securing the rights of Indigenous forest guardians.
A recent webinar discussed a critical yet often overlooked strategy for pandemic mitigation: securing the rights of Indigenous forest guardians.
A global community, including the Earth Institute’s Initiative on Communication and Sustainability, is working hard to make information and connectivity matter a little more each day.
A new book argues that humanity can stave off catastrophe by observing how natural systems have evolved simple strategies to assure their survival.
To protect ourselves from future pandemics, we must rethink humanity’s relationship with nature.
A Q&A with Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, author of a new book on potential future calamities, and how they may play off one another.
Although emissions temporarily dipped due to coronavirus, the numbers are bouncing back quickly as economies reopen.
Virtual Indigenous ceremonies reveal the strong bond between mountain communities and their Inca roots.
Reductions in human emissions and changes in atmospheric composition during the coronavirus pandemic might be observed in future glacial ice cores.
The region is highly vulnerable to these twin shocks.
Irwin Redlener, a medical doctor and director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, explains how you can protect yourself and the people around you.