Weather Disasters Costing U.S. Billions This Year
Mary Wisniewski
Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.
The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather to the United States.
Issues & Trends
CAMBODIA: Using text messaging as weapon in malaria war
TA REACH, 6 September 2011 (IRIN) - Cambodian efforts to contain the spread of malaria have been strengthened by a pilot project using text messagi
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
UN Photo/Eric KanalsteinA farmer gathers wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. In Brief: The combined effects of climate change, 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.