Iceland tops GSCI 2015; and: do country credit ratings fully reflect investor risks?
07-18-2017
Issues & Trends
As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope farms will survive
08-16-2015
KATY DAIGLE
VEDARANYAM, India (AP) — On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds.
British engineers create petrol from air and water
10-18-2012
Alice Baghdjian
LONDON (Reuters) - A small British company has developed a way to create petrol from air and water, technology it hopes may one day contribute to large-scale production of green fuels.
UN population growth data is bad news for climate - Climate News Network
09-17-2014
Climate News Network
Tim Radford
Sophisticated new analysis indicates an 80% probability that the planet's population will continue to rise this century, with serious implications for food security, political stability - and climate change.
Global Futures Report - REN21
07-18-2017
This Year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies, According to the World Economic Forum
07-17-2017
Philip Perry
Recently, the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and Global Future Councils, teamed up with the board of directors of Scientific American, to determine the top 10 breakout technologies for this year.
Pittsburgh - 100 Resilient Cities
03-07-2017
100 Resilient Cities
Pittsburgh’s Resilience Journey
The city of Pittsburgh released its Resilience Strategy on March 8, 2017. Explore the strategy here.
Pittsburgh’s Resilience Story
UN: Fewer hungry people in the world
05-26-2015
Detroit News
Rome - The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago despite natural disasters, ongoing conflicts and poverty, the three U.N. food agencies said Wednesday.
World water forum urges cooperation between energy, water communities
08-31-2014
GlobalPost
Xinhua News Agency
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Global leaders in the 24th annual World Water Week in Stockholm urged the energy and water communities to work together to meet the challenge of providing clean drinking water and energy for a growing world population.