“Ecological Overshoot”, our silver bullet
The UK's Hadley Centre projects that drought could regularly affect 40 per cent of the planet's land area by the end of this century.
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A time bomb under the sea
Lying in wait for us is a marine timebomb. According to Canadian scientist Boris Worm and colleagues, 29 per cent of world fisheries are in a state of collapse.
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Food and energy: partners in crisis
Peak oil has already happened in the United States, in Australia, Britain and in 49 out of 65 of the world's oil producing regions. Yet 51 million new cars continue to hit the world's roads every year.
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Medicating for our nutrient haemorrhage
The world is haemorrhaging nutrients at every link in the chain between farm and fork. On farm it appears anything up to half of applied nutrients can be lost into soil, water and the environment.
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Our farmlands are shrinking
Today almost a quarter of the world's farm land is affected by serious degradation (FAO 2008), up from 15% two decades ago.
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