China’s rapid economic growth means that Chinese environmental problems are also global problems. It would require several Earths to support the global population if every Chinese (not to mention the Indian population as well) consumed resources at, or even near, the level of the average citizen in wealthier, developed countries. The deputy group leader of...

Climate change leading to rising temperatures and increasing rainfall variability will affect different regions and people in different ways. The implications of climate change for pastoral livelihoods are not yet fully understood. Two opinions prevail. Some see pastoral groups as the ‘canaries in the coalmine’ in the sense that that they will be the first...