Environment & Sustainability

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Kirtida Mekani, Singapore’s tree lady, has died, aged 66

Singapore sells itself as an engineered miracle: a dense city that works, where heat, rain, and scarcity are managed rather than endured. Greenery is part of that bargain. Trees soften the concrete and help make the place livable, but they…

A melting Greenland is easier to exploit — but also more perilous

World leaders surely breathed a sigh of relief late this week when President Donald Trump said the United States wouldn’t have to “take” Greenland after all, having been granted permission to establish more military bases instead.  Greenland, being mostly covered…

The climate contradictions in MAHA’s new food pyramid

This month, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins unveiled updated national dietary guidelines in a surprising new visual: an inverted food pyramid, with the widest section teetering at the top. At the very bottom, a…