Issues & Trends
What Leading Scientists Want You to Know About Today's Frightening Climate Report
RICHARD SCHIFFMAN SEP 27 2013
The polar icecaps are melting faster than we thought they would; seas are rising faster than we thought they would; extreme weather events are increasing.
Planning and Financing Low-Carbon, Livable Cities
The World Bank News
What do Kampala and Rio de Janeiro have in common? At first sight, the capital of landlocked Uganda and the megacity on the Brazilian coast may appear very different, but they share more than meets the eye.
Seeing America From This Perspective Makes Me Feel Like A Total Heel
Upworthy
A few nations are making the planet a whole let messier for the rest of the gang. Maybe we should start thinking about being better neighbors.
IPCC "conservative" on sea level rise
IRIN NEWS
JOHANNESBURG, 8 October 2013 (IRIN) - The international scientific community’s new assessment of the estimated sea level rise caused by global warming is a significant development, but experts say the projections for higher sea levels in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate (IPCC) assessm
Shift to a new climate likely by mid-century - study
Reuters
OSLO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Billions of people could be living in regions where temperatures are hotter than their historical ranges by mid-century, creating a "new normal" that could force profound changes on nature and society, scientists said on Wednesday.
New global standard will measure and help cut food waste
Megan Rowling
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Work is to start on a new global standard for measuring food loss and waste, which experts hope will help reduce the significant amount of food that does not get eaten because it is spoiled or thrown away.
Renewable Power Generation - 2012 figures
Gail Rajgor
Special report.
Concentrations of warming gases break record
By Matt McGrath
The levels of gases in the atmosphere that drive global warming increased to a record high in 2012.
According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), atmospheric CO2 grew more rapidly last year than its average rise over the past decade.
Air pollution now kills more people than high cholesterol
Brad Plumer
The Lancet recently unveiled a major overview of global health risks — and one of the most eye-catching pap