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Climate Adaptation and Resource Scarcity

Stat: Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

A new study warns that ‘feedback loops’ – nature-based events that add to global warming – are amplifying the climate crisis beyond what current models account for.

Suhaku Home Hydrogen Generator, UK
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Beauty

Beauty as Environmental Defence

As environmental stressors intensify, beauty is moving beyond traditional skincare to build a new ecosystem of protection around the skin.

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Design

The Amazon gets its first official brand identity shaped by its river system

The Brazilian Legal Amazon – nine states, 60% of Brazil’s territory and 28m people – has been given its first official brand identity, developed by FutureBrand São Paulo in partnership with Integrated Amazon Routes (RAI) and the Brazilian Tourist Board (Embratur).

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Health, Wellness & Sport

Stat: How rising temperatures are rewriting the rules of movement

Rising temperatures could lead to 470,000 to 700,000 additional deaths worldwide each year by 2050, as extreme heat drives populations toward sedentary behaviour.

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Marketing & Branding

Niod’s anti-facial disrupts beauty’s clean narrative

Deciem’s science-led skincare brand Niod has launched a new campaign video subverting the polished conventions of beauty marketing by replacing serums and cleansers with the invisible pollutants city dwellers encounter daily.

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Travel & Hospitality

Why climate change could erase Europe’s Alps glaciers by 2100

Europe’s Alps are on course to lose nearly all (97%) of their glaciers by the end of the century, highlighting how climate change is redefining some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes.

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Design

Pedestrians are walking faster and lingering less in public spaces

Pedestrians in American cities are moving faster and spending less time lingering in public spaces, according to a new study from MIT’s Senseable City Lab.

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Marketing & Branding

Sustainability is Dead

Sustainability as we know it is dead. Long live sustainability. A new approach is needed that reflects today’s world of increasingly blended physical and digital realities.

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Design

Recrafting Waste

Tasmanian designer Brodie Neill sits down with LS:N Global to discuss making sustainability accessible, regenerative materials and pioneering circular design practices.