The Global Food Crisis, Mapped
JUSTIN GILLIS
Oxfam, the antihunger group, has been running a campaign to call attention to the global food crisis, its consequences and its potential solutions.
Issues & Trends
Europe’s financial contagion
Greece sneezed, and now most of Europe has a cold. The European debt crisis has already spread like a virus from Greece to Ireland and Portugal, and other countries are now at risk: Spain, and Italy are probable candidates for financial problems.
Delayed action on climate to result in irreversible change and high costs
The physics of Earth’s natural systems show that a delay—of even a decade—in reducing CO2 emissions will lock in large-scale, irreversible changes.
Weather disasters seen costly sign of things to come
Molly O'Toole
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and the trend is expected to worsen as climate change continues, officials and scientists said on Thursday.
Wally's World -- Thirty-five years ago this week, Wallace Broecker predicted decades of dangerous climate change caused by humans. Unfortunately, he was all too prescient.
BRAD JOHNSON
On Aug.
Subsidies for Renewables, Biofuels Dwarfed by Supports for Fossil Fuels -- Bloomberg New Energy Finance Preliminary Analysis Highlights Wide Gap Between Government Help for Clean, Dirty Power Sources
Sarah Feinberg
NEW YORK--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--New research from Bloomberg New Energy Finance reveals that despite many platitudes and pledges, governments of the world are spending substantially more on subsidizing dirty forms of energy than on renewables and b
Experts roll out malaria map, urge mosquito study
Tan Ee Lyn
(Reuters) - Nearly 3 billion people, or two-fifths of the world's population, were at risk of contracting malaria in 2009 and closer study of the mosquito's life cycle is needed to combat the disease, researchers said in two reports.
A view of Horn of Africa's drought from space
The worst drought in 60 years has hit the Horn of Africa region, an area in east Africa that includes Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Small fish said vital to seas; lower catches urged
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OSLO, July 21 (Reuters) - Small fish play a big role in the oceans and catches should be cut sharply to safeguard marine food chains from plankton to blue whales, an international team of experts said on Thursday.
Melting Arctic ice releasing banned toxins, warn scientists -- Unknown amount of trapped persistent organic pollutants poses threat to marine life and humans as temperatures rise
Damian Carrington
The warming of the Arctic is releasing a new wave of banned toxic chemicals that had been trapped in the ice and cold water, scientists have discovered.