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.
Disappearing Act: Bolivia’s second largest lake dries up
After Bolivia’s catastrophic drought, a YSSP explores how to help communities adapt
Falling fertility rates: Why do wealthier people have fewer children?
YSSP participant Sara Loo looks at the trend of falling fertility rates through the lens of cultural evolution
Interview: Living in the age of adaptation
Adil Najam on the need for adaptation and our failure to mitigate enough or in time
Interview: A community-based approach to managing human-wildlife conflicts
In an interview, YSSP participant Ziyun Zhu talks about his research on wildlife damage insurance schemes and working as a conservation biologist in his country.
Living to age five: Reducing deadly indoor air pollution in developing countries
Tackling indoor air pollution in developing countries means more children survive to see their fifth birthday and safeguards women’s wellbeing.
Nothing new under the sun?
An interdisciplinary research project explores glo-cal entanglements of power and nature in 18th century Vienna
New open-source software supports land-cover monitoring
Satellite images provide large amounts of data on our planet and how it’s changing, but collating and combining them requires innovative software.
Is open science the way to go?
Open science means making as much of the scientific output and processes publicly visible and accessible, including publications, models, and data sets.