Researchers describe future changes to the tropical rain belt with expected climate change. The changes will cause droughts in large sections of the globe, threatening biodiversity and food security.

Trade relations between Africa and Asia, especially China, increase the prosperity of African countries, according to the Kiel Institute China Initiative.

Current and future damages of climate change depend greatly on the ability of affected populations to adapt to changing conditions. Building capacity to adapt to such changes will require eradicating inequalities of many sorts, including gender.

Plastics contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including endocrine-disrupting chemicals that threaten human health. An new report describes the alarming health effects of widespread contamination from EDCs in plastics.

Scientists found out that the sustainability of plant-based bioplastics depends largely on the country of origin, its trade relationships and the raw material processed.

In spite of the corona crisis, rail freight transport along the New Silk Road increased substantially in 2020. And rail operators are anticipating growth in 2021 as well.

An international study finds that higher temperatures are an equal or even greater contributor to child malnutrition than the traditional culprits of poverty, inadequate sanitation, and poor education.

Climate change mitigation is about more than just CO2. So-called “short-lived climate-forcing pollutants” such as soot, methane, and tropospheric ozone all have harmful effects.

The rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up, according to new research. And the findings also reveal that the Earth lost 28 trillion tons of ice between 1994 and 2017.

Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA.