Six international researchers have now released a strategy paper that is essentially a global wake-up call. In light of the upcoming UN Climate Conference COP24 in Katowice, Poland, they underscore the need for an effective global climate research agenda – like the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) – so as to achieve...

The rumbling could be heard for miles. A herd of African elephants was headed for the small Namibian village that I stayed at during my research visits. Elephants normally avoid the villages, but we could guess what they were searching for on that afternoon. They could pick up the scent from far away: water.

Not the way it’s been handled so far, according to Dr. Kerstin Jantke, who claims there is no global strategy for protecting the right marine and land areas. In response, the environmental scientist in collaboration with researchers of the University of Queensland, Australia, has now developed a new software tool to make...