"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.

To change something, Build A New Model that Makes The Existing Model Obsolete."

— R Buckminster Fuller

Chelsea Harvey

The human handprint on the natural world has become evident in all too many ways in recent decades.

Paulina Concha Larrauri

A large cistern in the ancient city of Resafa, Syria, was filled by channeling periodic floods from a wadi west of the city. The use of complex systems for directing and harvesting water dates back thousands of years.

EVAN ACKERMAN

In 1974, lasers had been around for only 14 years.

A breakthrough in the race to make useful products out of planet-heating CO2 emissions has been made in southern India

www.theguardian.com

Global wildlife populations will decline by 67% by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to reduce human impact on species and ecosystems, warns the biennial Living Planet Index report from WWF and ZSL.

<a href="http://www.nasa.gov">www.nasa.gov</a> - Patrick Lynch

Two key climate change indicators -- global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent -- have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data.

http://www.overshootday.org

Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.

Ed King

UN biodiversity chief tells Climate Home protecting and restoring ecosystems is the best way to protect the world from dangerous levels of global warming.

http://blogs.worldwatch.org - Wanqing Zhou

To celebrate the recent World Food Day (October 16), learn how food production can be transformed from a greenhouse gas emitter to a carbon sink by improving soil biology.