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Tipping points are critical points in a situation, process, or system after which a "significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place." Passing tipping points in human societies can lead to both desirable and undesirable outcomes.Click on the link below to read the full article

As marine management and conservation professionals, we all know how incredibly difficult it is to plan for and manage even the most "mappable" uses of the oceans " e.g., wind farms, oil rigs, communication cables, aquaculture facilities, and so forth.

A sassy campaign wants plastic trash recognized as an actual country, in hopes of getting official attention.Click on the link below to read the full story.

Scientists may soon be able to monitor whole ecosystems in real time.Click on the link below to read the full article.

Many conservationists undertake environmentally harmful activities in their private lives such as flying and eating meat, while calling for people as a whole to reduce such behaviors.

The Ramsar Convention Secretariat is pleased to launch the call for nominations for the seventh edition of the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Awards.

In leaked memo, Trump interior secretary recommends 10 protected areas be modified to allow for "traditional uses" such as mining, logging and hunting...Click on the link below to read the full story.

The Equator Prize 2017 awards are honoring 15 communities that have demonstrated how to pursue effective, diverse and inspiring nature-based development solutions that work for people, prosperity and our planet.Click the link below to read the full opening remarks.

Between 1900 and 2010, the global volume of natural resources used in buildings and transport infrastructure increased 23-fold.

Gender, The Environment and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific examines the intersections between gender and the environment at the household, work, community and policy levels, particularly in the spheres of food security and agriculture, energy, water, fisheries and forestry, with