How we nearly drowned – on a mountaintop
Merlijn Twaalfhoven, composer, musician, entrepreneur, reports back from the 2017 Alpbach-Laxenburg Group retreat.
Unleashing innovation for sustainability
IIASA researcher Verena Rauchenwald reports back on her experience thinking outside the box as part of a global innovation lab.
Clean air beyond the 2008 Olympics in China?
China builds on efforts to tackle particulate matter pollution after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Cornelius Hirsch: Digging into foreign investment in agriculture
A young researcher reveals why land-grabbing is actually a misnomer for water-grabbing
Interview from Alpbach: Stop praising innovation
Technology alone cannot solve deeply rooted relational and cultural problems: to make an impact, good ideas must reach widespread practice.
Communicating scientific uncertainty
You won’t harm interest in science or trust in scientists by communicating uncertainty, you might even engage people more.
The carbon curse: Can countries that produce fossil fuels ever get close to a low-carbon economy?
Exploring the links between extractivism and climate change mitigation.
Do smokers know what they are doing to their life expectancy?
New research finds that more highly educated people are more likely to correctly predict their survival probabilities.
What would an oil spill mean for the Arctic?
An oil spill could cause irreversible damage to Arctic wildlife, even altering world populations of the more vulnerable species
Spread of invasive species driven by trade and transport
Findings from a new study links spread of invasive species to global trade and transport development.