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Fred Pearce

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Fred Pearce is an environment writer and author of The Last Generation: How nature will take her revenge for climate change

May 2019

  • Don Hinrichsen worked as a public relations consultant for the UN Population Fund, where he stayed for 20 years

    Other lives
    Don Hinrichsen obituary

    Other lives: Environmental journalist and author

June 2018

  • The old Wylfa nuclear power station in north Wales, which was decommissioned in 2015.

    double quotation markBritain’s nuclear U-turn puts us in a very lonely club

    Fred Pearce
  • A radiation check on a bus during a visit by Japan’s PM Shinzo Abe to the Fukushima power plant in 2012.

    What was the fallout from Fukushima?

May 2018

  • Zero emission

    Future sailors: what will ships look like in 30 years?

    With a target to halve its huge carbon footprint, the race is on to find new technologies to green the world’s shipping fleet

March 2018

  • ‘When we express fears about teeming megacities, are we just reacting badly to people different from us? Is there a tinge of racism in our environmental concerns?’

    Overstretched cities
    double quotation markIs the way we think about overpopulation racist?

    Fred Pearce
    Half the world lives in urban areas, yet environmental concerns about megacities often focus on developing economies. But consumption is as important as population

February 2018

  • An American Eagle jet flies through heat ripples as it lands at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix

    Climate change spells turbulent times ahead for air travel

    From rising temperatures preventing take-off to rising seas flooding runways, aviation needs to adapt to changes already grounding flights around the world

May 2017

  • Apple store in New York

    double quotation markLet's hold Apple and Walmart to their big environmental promises

    Fred Pearce
    It’s easy to be cynical about the recent rush of bold corporate sustainability targets, but brands that buy into a green image may find it hard to deviate too far

March 2017

  • Locals oppose proposed titanium mine on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Nonhle Mbuthuma, leader of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, which opposes a proposed titanium mine on South Africa’s Eastern Cape.

    Guardian Environment Network
    Murder in Pondoland: how a proposed mine brought conflict to South Africa

    Yale Environment 360: The death of activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe has not stopped local communities from opposing plans for a major titanium mine that threatens ecologically important lands and a way of life
  • Supporters of Bill Kayong outside the court at the trial of three men charged in his murder.

    Guardian Environment Network
    Murder in Malaysia: how protecting native forests cost an activist his life

    Yale Environment 360: Malaysian activist Bill Kayong fought to save forest lands from logging and oil palm development. Like a troubling number of environmental campaigners around the world, he paid the highest price
  • Maria Austra Berta Flores, mother of murdered environmentalist activist Berta Caceres, in La Esperanza on the first anniversary of her demise

    Guardian Environment Network
    Honduras, where defending nature is a deadly business

    Yale Environment 360 reports from Honduras where Berta Cáceres fought to protect native lands and paid for it with her life – one of hundreds of victims in this disturbing global trend

October 2016

  • Farmers plant saplings in rice field in Shariefabad on the outskirts of Srinagar<br>Farmers plant saplings in a rice field in Shariefabad on the outskirts of Srinagar June 9, 2011. India's food price index rose 9.01 percent in the year to May 28, government data showed on Thursday. REUTERS/Fayaz Kabli (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: BUSINESS AGRICULTURE)

    Guardian Environment Network
    What is causing the rapid rise in methane emissions?

    Yale environment 360: New research finds some surprising culprits and shows that fossil-fuel sources have played a much larger role than previously estimated

June 2016

  • Two boys walk through a dried up Chandola Lake in Ahmadabad, India, May 2016

    Guardian Environment Network
    What would a global warming increase of 1.5C be like?

    Environment 360: The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5C, rather than the previous threshold of 2C. But what would be the difference?

April 2016

  • Heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant in California''s Mojave Desert is currently the largest solar thermal plant<br>ECRW0R Heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Thermal Power Plant in California''s Mojave Desert is currently the largest solar thermal plant

    Guardian Environment Network
    Is it possible to reduce CO2 emissions and grow the global economy?

    Yale Environment 360: Surprising new statistics show that the world economy is expanding while global carbon emissions remain at the same level. Is it possible that the elusive ‘decoupling’ of emissions and economic growth could be happening?

January 2016

  • Tourists watch floodwaters gushing out of the Xiaolandi Dam during a flood-discharge and sand-washing operation of the Yellow River in Jiyuan city, central China’s Henan province.

    Energy access
    double quotation markFrom the Nile to the Amazon, climate change threatens hydropower

    Fred Pearce
    All over the world achieving new renewable energy targets relies on hydropower. But what if the water dries up?

October 2015

  • Displaced people walk though a dust storm in drought-stricken southeast Ethiopia.

    Water in development
    Drought is a global problem - we need a global solution

    An international system could save lives but a recent UN climate event in New York passed without anyone putting up funding or accepting responsibility

April 2015

  • Phyllis Omido during a meeting with community members and former factory workers in Owino Uhuru.

    'East African Erin Brockovich' wins prize for closing polluting lead smelter

    Phyllis Omido awarded Goldman prize environmental award after battling to close a plant in a Kenyan slum that was poisoning its inhabitants and her baby

September 2014

  • Al Gore, Chairman of Generation Investment Management, speaks during the opening ceremony of the climate summit at the UN headquarters.

    Guardian Environment Network
    Beyond climate change treaties: 'a deal in Paris is not essential'

  • If the prediction of 11 billion is correct, will overpopulation be the driver of ecological apocalyp

    double quotation markIt’s not overpopulation that causes climate change, it’s overconsumption

    Fred Pearce

July 2014

  • Blackpool's Shale Gas Drilling Begins

    double quotation markSo the fracking battle begins, but is it clear who’s right?

    Fred Pearce
  • live better chalkstreams

    Live Better: saving water
    The threat to chalk streams, our unique contribution to global ecology

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