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This year, the UN World Water Day explores how water and climate change are inextricably linked. Water stocks are under increased pressure as the global population grows and natural resources are depleted; climate change only serves to exacerbate this situation. To mark this day, Springer Nature is delighted to present, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme, a…

Exclusive: Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts. Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen. Andersen said humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with damaging consequences, and…

Unprecedented scales of transformation in land use are called for to address the core challenges for the growing and urbanising human population. Afforestation and bioenergy for mitigating climate change and increasing requirements for land for agriculture and urban areas constitute core challenges identified in current global forecasting. The critical impact of how the demands for land for new…

Coronavirus patients and those under home quarantine in South Korea now have a new way of passing time after an e-book startup said it would open up its library to those affected for free. Millie’s Library, an e-book subscription service that launched in 2017, will allow free access to its library of 50,000 titles for two months, according to the Korea Herald newspaper. It’s also…

Fatima Amaguar came home from university with an idea. She knew the women in her home province of Azilal, a rural community of 10,000 in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains, struggled to find employment outside the home due to social and cultural pressures. But, she believed, a solution was literally right at their fingertips. In 2016, she founded a cooperative called Amagar and got to work.

We are excited to share that anyone anywhere can now access a growing online collection of contemporary open access eBooks from the Library of Congress website. For example, you can now directly access books such as Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks, and Youjeong Oh’s Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place from the Library of Congress…