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How Do We Fix the Hellish Heat of the New York City Subway System? – State of the Planet

Credit: David Shankbone On June 24, the date of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary and one of the hottest days of 2025, I squeeze voting into my morning before cramming into a busy and poorly ventilated train car. I cast my ballot for frontrunner Zohran Mamdani who, throughout his campaign, advocated for accessible […]
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Brazil’s bioeconomy – hope or hype?

Strategic investment initiatives like the Brazil Climate and Ecological Transformation Investment Platform (BIP) are also central to this growth.  Safeguards The bioeconomy also encompasses biotechnology, strategic minerals, the restoration and sustainable management of natural vegetation, agricultural bio-inputs, waste management, regenerative farming, tourism, fishery, and other emerging industries. In July 2025, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a […]
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The Rising Threat to New York City’s Food System – State of the Planet

It was barely past dawn when Bruce Reingold pushed through industrial plastic flaps and slid open the insulated door that led into a massive refrigerated warehouse. Inside, people hustled in every direction, some on foot with clipboards in hand and some driving pallet jacks capable of carrying 2,000 pounds. Brown cartons, containing everything from short […]
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Alumni Spotlight: How Columbia Prepared Me for Work at the Nature Conservancy – State of the Planet

Alison Miller, who graduated from Columbia’s Master of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy (MPA-ESP) in 2011, is now a senior leader at the Nature Conservancy, where she works at the intersection of science and implementation, helping turn environmental evidence into on-the-ground action. With a background spanning government, academia, nonprofits and corporate business development, […]
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The nuclear-powered submarine crisis

‘Unplanned’ maintenance outages disrupted the programme of ‘planned’ maintenance and increased the wear-and-tear pressure on boats waiting for their planned maintenance. The seven-year long maintenance outage of the ballistic missile submarine HMS Vanguard from 2015 to 2022 occurred in the wake of a series of reports of observed reactor malfunctions from the Naval Reactor Test […]
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Canada Pledges $15 Million for Climate Adaptation in Hindu Kush Himalayan Region – State of the Planet

Early this year, Canada pledged CA$15 million toward climate adaptation projects in Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. It has teamed up with the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), a Nepal-based NGO. This contribution is a clear instance of climate adaptation finance—that is, funding toward projects that will help reduce vulnerability to climate change. The […]
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Military diverting critical materials from renewables

A huge amount of critical mineral mining is ‘not essential’ for the green transition, new analysis from the UK-based campaigning organisation Global Justice Now has found.  The analysis has today been published in a new report, titled ‘Material realities: who needs critical minerals and at whose expense?’. Global Justice Now is demanding the UK government […]
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Leveraging Next-Generation Tsunami Early Warning Systems to Save Lives – State of the Planet

Damage from the March 2011 tsunami in downtown Ofunato, Japan. Photo: U.S. Navy When an enormous 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, the impact reached far beyond its epicenter. In the passing hours, tsunami alerts were issued by several nations with coastlines along the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire, prompting evacuations and escalating […]
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The global nappy poonami

This vast growth has largely come from aggressive marketing in the Global South, often in countries whose infrastructure struggles to deal with the sudden surge in plastic waste.  Trained Indonesia, for example, produces more marine detritus than any other country but China. A World Bank study of pollution in the rivers passing through its main cities found […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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