Facing up to the global water crisis
Jae So
Some poor, politically stable countries have made great strides in access to water supply and sanitation. Water experts meeting in Stockholm called for further improvements
The New Green Revolution: How Twenty-First-Century Science Can Feed the World
Olivier De Schutter, Gaëtan Vanloqueren

Oil Consumption Hits All-Time High
Economic Recession a Blip on Oil Consumption’s Upward Climb
Clean Energy Top Priority, U.N. Chief Tells NREL
Bill Scanlon
Providing clean, renewable energy to the 1.4 billion people who are living without electricity is the No. 1 priority of the United Nations, the secretary general of the U.N. said during a visit Aug. 24 to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Time to Start Work on a Panic Button?
JUSTIN GILLIS
For two decades, the world’s governments have failed to meet their own commitment to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas.
Climate cycles linked to civil war, analysis shows
Damian Carrington
Changes in the global climate that cut food production triggered one-fifth of civil conflicts between 1950 and 2004
Counting the Earth's living riches is a landmark moment
Damian Carrington
