Earth & Us
Earth & Us is a section dedicated to the concepts, doers and thinkers striving for a more sustainable and compassionate planet. Climate change, conservation, renewable energy, green innovation and responsible development – this section explores the issues that confront our planet and the solutions when and where they emerge.
We also highlight humanitarian projects, community projects, environmental achievements and inspiring work that continues to make a difference. The future of humanity and the future of the planet are bound together.
Earth & Us is a way to learn about this connection, to honor the advances that have been made, and see what can be improved.

COP31 Climate Funding Crisis: Nations Raise Defence Budgets While $310 Billion Adaptation Gap Threatens Global Economies
The world is poised to invest trillions to guard its borders, military bases and strategic interests, but is not ready to invest in an adequate amount of resources to guard the land, infrastructure and economies those troops are supposed to protect.
13 Oct 2026

A herd of nearly five hundred goats has gone to work on a US Marine Corps base outside San Diego, and the story says as much about the economics of American wildfire policy as it does about hungry livestock.
The Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Fire Department hauled in 471 female Spanish Boer goats from California's Central Valley and released them into an approximately 600-acre area of parched scrub at Camp Elliott just east of Highway 15 earlier this month.
17 Sept 2026

The World Just Admitted It Will Blow Past 1.5 Degrees Now the Real Fight Begins
The world was for 10 years a temperature that was not to be crossed. So this week the United Nations is effectively giving in that line is going to be crossed regardless, and not in a begrudging manner but more in a triage kind of way.
3 Sept 2026


























































































































