Helping communities adapt to the impacts of climate change
To mark Earth Day on 22nd April, we’ve highlighted three of our stories on agriculture and climate change from the past year. The world is witnessing growing incidents of the new “normal” caused by global warming. No longer regarded as a future challenge to be faced in the next few decades, climate disruption is…
Earth Day 2018 – The campaign to eliminate plastic pollution
[Image credit: Pixabay – hhach] This blog post was written by our new Content Editor – Ellen Baker, ahead of Earth Day on Sunday 22nd April. This year the annual environmental issues awareness event ‘Earth day’ is focussing on the topic of plastic pollution; the problems generated by our high usage of single use plastics…
Earth Day – What’s Your Story?
Fuel shortages, Famine, Disease, Extinction, Floods, Drought…So this is ‘Earth Day’. Hardly something to look forward to is it? At CABI, we work tirelessly under the assumption that most people we’re likely to come across believe that ‘saving the planet’ is a Good Thing. But what are we really trying to save? Are we saving…