Megan Rowling, Nov 19, 2013
Africa faces climate adaptation costs in the range of $7 billion to $15 billion per year by 2020, and that figure could rise to around $350 billion annually by 2070 if global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius, a U.N. report said on Tuesday.
Astrid Zweynert, Nov 19, 2013
Access to improved sanitation can increase cognition in children, according to a new World Bank study, the latest research to link stunting and open defecation.
More than 2.5 billion people worldwide lack access to toilets, and one billion people practice open defecation.
Roger Harrabin Sep 24, 2013
It's a wonder gadget. It safeguards eyes and lungs.
It protects glaciers from melting. It saves forests. This miracle device is... a cooker.
Daniel Kammen of University of California, Berkeley, Nov 20, 2013
In the poem “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost asserted that “good fences make good neighbors.” World history is replete with foreign policy built around physical walls, from Emperor Hadrian, to the Great Wall of China, to the Berlin Wall, the wall between Palestine and Israeli, to the U.S.-Mexico bor
Alister Doyle, Oct 3, 2013
OSLO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - The world's oceans are under greater threat than previously believed from a "deadly trio" of global warming, declining oxygen levels and acidification, an international study said on Thursday.
Lewis Page, Nov 15 2013
The technical team behind Google Earth have partnered with US government boffins to produce dramatic satellite maps showing how the area of the world covered by forests has changed across the years 2000 to 2012.
The Guardian, November 14 2013
Deforestation in the Amazon increased by nearly a third over the past year, according to Brazilian government figures released on Thursday.
Arthur Neslen Sep 18 2013
An architect of the UN’s Millennium development Goals (MDGs) says he fears that a lack of strong leadership at the UN could lead to its poverty eradication goals being replaced by an over-politicised and unachievable “wish list” after 2015.
Reuters
The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, according to a United Nations report.
Carmel Lobello SEP 26 2013
So much for China's change of heart when it comes to taking care of the environment.