A water, sanitation, and hygiene partnership with an indigenous community in Malaysia shows the power of active and responsive community engagement.

Warwick Pearse is a consultant working in occupational and environmental health. He has held a number of senior government positions in Australia and was the foundation Director of the National ...

Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, according to new desertification research by the United Nations.

UNU-EHS's Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson looks at Nepal's recent earthquake and some important new disaster risk reduction approaches.

Mexico's PET plastic recycling industry is working with waste pickers and showing how this can generate social and environmental benefits.

Mountain rice terracing is practised widely in parts of the Asia-Pacific. Rice terraces are deeply intertwined with indigenous cultures, traditional practices and the ecology of many mountainous areas ...

In the future, our descendants have a right to the same environmental stability that allowed our civilisation to prosper.

Professor Dennis Meadows did say this almost forty years ago as a co-author of the iconic The Limits to Growth, along with the late Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William H. Behrens III. The ...

Food is culture. This is especially true in a food-obsessed country like Japan where the national cuisine uniquely reflects the natural environment, regional diversity and underlying value system of ...

Global environmental indicators all seem to be going in the wrong direction but positive trends continue to emerge from Costa Rica.

Japanese fishers and local experts are restoring precious eelgrass beds that are the nurturing habitat of coastal fish in Seto Inland Sea.

Vast amounts of energy, agricultural nutrients, and water could be recovered from the 380 billion cubic meters of wastewater produced annually worldwide.