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10 Breakthrough Technologies Can Help Feed the World Without Destroying It 

How can the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 while advancing economic development, protecting forests and stabilizing the climate? Technological innovations like plant-based "beef" and low-emissions cows can help. Read more.
 

Researchers are developing lower-emissions rice varieties, feed additives and other technological innovations to create a more sustainable food system. Photo by Kate Holt/AusAID
A vessel suspected of illegal fishing. Wikimedia/US Navy

Canada’s Closing Ports to Illegal Fishers. It's a Big Deal for Global Food Security 

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing—responsible for nearly one-fifth of all fish on the market—undermines our ability to manage stocks sustainably. The country with the world’s longest coastline just took a major step to stop it. Read more.

Las Ramblas, Barcelona, Spain. Photo by peresanz/iStock

4 Emerging Concepts that Could Transform Cities 

Projects like Barcelona's "superblocks" and Atlanta's Beltline are showing cities how they can adapt to growing environmental and economic pressures. Anne Maasen and Madeleine Galvin reveal four new innovations. 
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One-third of the food the world produces is ultimately lost or wasted. Photo by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Countries' Climate Plans Are Missing a Big Opportunity: Reducing Food Loss and Waste 

Fewer than a dozen national climate plans include measures to reduce food loss and waste. That's a problem, writes Craig Hanson—if food loss and waste were its own country, it would be world's third-largest emitter. 
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Climate Change and National Security: A Conversation with Dr. Rod Schoonover
July 30, 2019
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