CONTRIBUTORS

‘Extreme heat in cities has shot up the agenda all over the world as heatwaves have taken their toll on human health, even for populations in more northerly climates,’ says environmental journalist Catherine Early ( page 38). ‘But urban areas are finding ways to adapt – from painting roofs and pavements white to extracting water from rivers to cool buildings.’ ‘Working in Sikkim was like traveling back in time, when all of us depended on agriculture and there was a deep knowledge about how nature and our planet work,’ says Matteo Fagotto ( page 30). ‘Industrial agriculture has made our lives much more comfortable in terms of food variety and security, but we have also lost a lot of important traditional knowledge.’ ‘When I was sent as a young journalist to report about one of last legal ivory auctions in Namibia back in 1999 I knew next to nothing about the international convention CITES that regulated the event,’ says Roman Goergen ( page 46). ‘I look into how the same proand anti-trade positions affect CITES today, and whether the convention still works to protect species.’