Children’s views should be taken into account when designing urban space
Iryna Inshyna/Shutterstock Jenny Wood, Heriot-Watt University Children see the world in a different way to adults, but urban planning policies rarely take this into account….
Iryna Inshyna/Shutterstock Jenny Wood, Heriot-Watt University Children see the world in a different way to adults, but urban planning policies rarely take this into account….
Is hydrogen the lifeblood of a low-carbon future, or an overhyped distraction from real solutions? One thing is certain – the coal, oil and natural…
Luna Lu, Purdue University and Vishal Saravade, Purdue University Every day, Americans travel on roads, bridges and highways without considering the safety or reliability of…
Very few academics or policy makers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity…
In countries across Africa, the public health restrictions imposed to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic have thrown many people out of work. Cities face the…
Matthew Hole, Australian National University Recent reports from scientists pursuing a new kind of nuclear fusion technology are encouraging, but we are still some distance…
A home that will keep you warm and cool the planet “… everything from mining the materials for the cement to chopping down the trees…
Ella Adlen, University of Oxford and Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford It’s far easier to avoid burning fossil fuels than it is to clean up…
Simon Mair, University of Surrey Where will we be in six months, a year, ten years from now? I lie awake at night wondering what…
For the past 100 years, a simple molecule has had an immensely positive impact on our world. Ammonia, which comprises three hydrogen atoms bonded to…
I want you to imagine a highway exclusively devoted to delivering the world’s energy. Each lane is restricted to trucks that carry one of the…
MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Stellenbosch University South Africa’s energy crisis has many dimensions, from political and economic to technical and environmental. Recently, the country’s power utility,…
They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to…
How much greenhouse gas is emitted by any individual country? With global emissions of carbon dioxide hitting a record of 36.8 billion tonnes this…
Robert Hales, Griffith University; Johanna Nalau, Griffith University; Samid Suliman, Griffith University, and Tim Cadman, Griffith University Almost 200 world leaders gather in Madrid this…
Michael Petterson, Auckland University of Technology Everyone is going on about reducing our carbon footprint, zero emissions, planting sustainable crops for biodiesel etc. Is it…