This article is part of a News-Decoder series of “decoders” that explain crucial background to big issues. For more decoders, click here. By Sue Landau It costs nothing to pollute. That has been the driving force of our carbon-based economy since the...
By Malcolm Davidson The world is awash in plastic, and it’s choking the planet with discarded trash that effectively will be with us forever. And the problem is getting worse. The scale of the problem was brought home to television viewers by British wildlife...
This article was submitted to News-Decoder’s recent essay/reporting contest for students in our partner academic institutions. To read other submissions, click here. (Photographs by Carley Lanich) By Carley Lanich Under an early morning sun, four men wearing...
Despite attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, the United Nations Climate Change Conference set to start at the end of the month will go ahead in the French capital. The government has announced that two major street demonstrations that activists had planned for...
