the Guardian
One in four of the world’s children will be living in areas with extremely limited water resources by 2040 as a result of climate change, the UN has warned.
the Guardian
The world's population will break through the 8 billion mark in 2023, there are more men than women, and next year the number of over 60s will top 1 billion for the first time, according to the latest findings and forecasts from the United Nations annual population survey.
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals poster
R Buckminster Fuller
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, Build A New Model that Makes The Existing Model Obsolete."
— R Buckminster Fuller
Chelsea Harvey
The human handprint on the natural world has become evident in all too many ways in recent decades.
Paulina Concha Larrauri
A large cistern in the ancient city of Resafa, Syria, was filled by channeling periodic floods from a wadi west of the city. The use of complex systems for directing and harvesting water dates back thousands of years.
Martha Henriques
The first large-scale study of cooking stoves that burn solid fuel such as coal or wood has estimated that phasing out the stoves could prevent about 260,000 premature deaths from indoor pollution globally each year.
EVAN ACKERMAN
In 1974, lasers had been around for only 14 years.
A breakthrough in the race to make useful products out of planet-heating CO2 emissions has been made in southern India.
Global wildlife populations will decline by 67% by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to reduce human impact on species and ecosystems, warns the biennial Living Planet Index report from WWF and ZSL.