Environment

Although the threat facing the Amazon region is well-known, it is hard to truly grasp the severity of the situation through scientific facts alone.

Demographic changes and the inadequacy of tech fixes force Austria to question skiing monoculture. Yet, for now, alternative visions for the alpine region are struggling to take root.

Tracy Amofa questions notions of safety from climate risk.

Chloé ten Brink looks at the tangible and intangible impacts of community displacement.

Faced with resistance to their energy-intensive data centres in northern Europe, Big Tech companies are looking south. Can Spain take this gamble?

During communism, irrigation systems made the Romanian Plain agriculturally robust, but have since collapsed. Droughts are the new reality.

Water wars are not inevitable but the result of bad management.

Over-exploitation, pollution, and land consumption are exacerbating the effects of climate change in Italy’s Pianura Padana.

Rivers can be used to combat the risks of flooding or drought, particularly in urban areas. But schemes can negatively impact the environment and water quality.

Drought and torrential rain exposed Italy to devastating floods last May. Inefficient administration, short-sighted politics, and an unstoppable appetite for urban sprawl are to blame.