Vimeo | By: Jamie Hancock | GPE – May 12, 2018: Cape Town is currently suffering from a water crisis due to a number of different factors. The residents are having to cut their daily water usage down to a limit of 50 litres per day per person and on Read more…
Al Jazeera | By: Yorgos Avgeropoulos | April 16, 2018: Is water a commodity or a human right? Cities across Europe are fighting water privatisation. In 2010, water was officially recognised as a universal human right by the United Nations. However, the European Union has yet to do the same. Read more…
Jeunes Patriotes Congolais | GPE – March 21, 2018: The video (in French) presents the work of Jérôme Munyangi, a Congolese Physician-Researcher based in Maniema for the purpose of finding a healing plant that will be effective against malaria. A team of Democratic Republic of Congo doctors, Jerome Munyangi and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Fred Krupp | March 20, 2018: Multilateral corporate partnerships and market-based approaches have become standard practice. American corporations began joining with environmental groups to increase sustainability nearly 30 years ago. This trend was still on the horizon in 1986 when I wrote an op-ed Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Keiko Morris | February 04, 2018: Wood’s ability to create a warm environment appeals to tech companies, a plus for a city on Amazon’s HQ2 shortlist. In the contest to attract office tenants, many developers stick with the tried-and-true combination of concrete, steel and Read more…
Return To Now | By: Sara Burrows | GPE – February 04, 2018: After thousands of years of turning the soil upside-down, farmers are finally realizing they’re killing the microorganisms that keep soil alive… Faced with losing the farm, more and more are converting to the ancient “no-till” methods of Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | February 02, 2018: Essentially every country with any territory anywhere near the Arctic has by now staked out claims to offshore resources well beyond their own territorial waters there, largely based on arguments relating to the extent of relevant continental shelves. The Arctic Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Bob Sussman | February 02, 2018: The system took shape in the 1960s and 70s as the public and politicians sounded the alarm about the environmental legacy of decades of uncontrolled industrialization. Faced with the threat of unsafe and polluted air, contaminated rivers and streams, hazardous Read more…
Reuters | By: Ed Stoddard & Victor Antonie | January 31, 2018: Cape Town is running out of water and low dam levels in the emerald-green highlands of Lesotho are raising alarm bells in South Africa’s industrial heartland around Johannesburg, which has so far avoided the shortages hitting other regions. Read more…
Reuters | By: Umberto Bacchi | January 31, 2018: Drought-stricken Cape Town could run out of water as soon as April, but South Africa is not alone in its struggle as ever more world cities battle acute water shortages. Water scarcity already affects more than 40 percent of the world’s Read more…
The Hill | By: Timothy Cama | January 31, 2018: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing back by two years an Obama administration rule redefining the federal government’s power over small waterways. The Trump administration is working to repeal the rule, dubbed the Clean Water Rule or Waters of Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – February 01, 2018: Water scarcity forces millions of people off of farms and into teeming cities. Originally published June 02, 2016: The latest national drought assessment shows that 19 of the 36 states and territories in India are experiencing moisture Read more…
Yale 360 | E360 Digest | January 26, 2018: More than 11 billion pieces of plastic are lodged within coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region. According to a new study published in the journal Science, as this plastic gets tangled, it often cuts the coral, increasing the risk of infection Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – January 29, 2018: The proposed halt to operations in 2019 at the West’s largest coal-fired power plant could attract White House attention. Originally published February 23, 2017: Since 1976 the 2,250-megawatt coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, with its three towering stacks Read more…
World Food Programme | GPE – January 27, 2018: KINSHASA – In a stark warning, three UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) – say time is running out to save hundreds of thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of Read more…
The New York Times | By: Somini Sengupta | GPE – January 27, 2018: UNITED NATIONS — Nigeria. Syria. Somalia. And now Iran. In each country, in different ways, a water crisis has triggered some combination of civil unrest, mass migration, insurgency or even full-scale war. Originally published January 18, Read more…
News24 | By: Jenni Evans | January 23, 2018: Day Zero in Cape Town has been brought forward by nine days to April 12 due to a drop in dam levels, City of Cape Town Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, due to a drop in the dam Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Andrew Wu, Sofia Faruqi, Andrés Anchondo Ortega and Eriks Brolis | GPE – January 23, 2018: An estimated 15 billion trees are cut down each year—more than 41 million per day. Given this pace of land degradation, it’s hard to imagine how traditional reforestation methods, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 22, 2018: The world’s biggest air purifier has been constructed in the city of Xian in Shaanxi province, which is located in the northern part of the country. Standing 100 meters high, the tower uses heat from the sun to create an Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 22, 2018: Cape Town, South Africa, a city of 4 million, is facing an existential challenge. It is about to run out of fresh water. Anthony Turton, a professor at the Center for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State Read more…
THINK Global School | Hans Rosling | GPE – January 19, 2018: In part 5 of a 6-part lecture, Hans Rosling uses statistics to give an overview of population growth and an explanation of why the total human population will never exceed 11 billion, as others predict and fear. THINK Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | January 16, 2018: Water shortages are hurting India’s ability to produce power. New WRI research finds that 40 percent of the country’s thermal power plants are located in areas facing high water stress, a problem since these plants use water for cooling. Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Codi Kozacek | GPE – January 16, 2018: Climate change is here, but will we fight over it? Originally published March 30, 2016: Research by renowned climate scientist James Hansen and an international team of researchers found in March 2016 that climate change could cause Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – January 16, 2018: Droughts, floods, and civic opposition cause huge losses. Originally published April 28, 2016: In early November 2002, six years before Lehman Brothers melted down and the American economy came much too close to collapsing, John Cassidy wrote Read more…
The Jerusalem Post | By: KKL-JNF Staff | GPE – January 15, 2018: An ancient land with new ideas for reclaiming ecosystem services and combating desertification. Humans have lived in all regions of Israel, including the semi-arid and arid ones, since before Biblical times, with varying degrees of success. Some Read more…
The Economist | GPE – January 15, 2018: The spread of forests is not always popular. But it is sure to continue. Colm Stenson drives around County Leitrim, pointing out new tree plantations. In this corner of Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland, conifers seem to be springing Read more…
PBS | By: Teresa Carey | GPE – January 15, 2018: When a predator is near, water fleas don their armor. Their bodies produce spikes and helmets to dissuade their attackers. Originally published January 12, 2018: But in a new study, aquatic biologists at Ruhr University Bochum report that freshwater Read more…
Renewable Energy World | Bloomberg | By: Brian Eckhouse | GPE – January 13, 2018: Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry. Originally published January 09, 2018: Manufacturing of the photovoltaic glass tiles began last month Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brady Dennis | January 08, 2018: This map (above) shows changes in the salt content of fresh water in rivers and streams across the United States over the past half-century. Warmer colors indicate increasing salinity, while cooler colors indicate decreasing salinity. The black dots represent Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Delony | GPE – January 09, 2018: A new group of microgrids has been proposed to help support Connecticut’s critical facilities in the event of an emergency. The proposals are part of the latest round of applications that were due Jan. 1 for funding Read more…
USGS | GPE – January 08, 2018: Snow-affected urban areas are particularly vulnerable. A U.S. Geological Survey report finds that many U.S. rivers are becoming increasingly salty, which contributes to corrosion in water distribution systems. Concentrations of chloride—a main component of salt—and other measures of potential corrosivity increased in many Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: We’ve published a couple of articles recently on Shenzhen’s dramatic electrification of over 16,000 buses — something completely unprecedented around the world. But to say this is an isolated case of Chinese electric bus leadership would be to miss the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: China’s King of the electric vehicle world. It has more electric car sales than the rest of the world combined. One city now has over 16,000 electric buses in service — 100% of its fleet — and other cities are Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 06, 2018: If you want a feel-good story about a country that takes climate change seriously and is willing to take significant steps to protect the environment, China is a good place to start. Long the poster child for poisonous air, foul Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Jesper Berggreen | January 06, 2018: Numbers have just come out this week from danskenergi.dk, the Danish energy organization whose members support companies in delivering steady green power to the Danes, with an impressive uptime of 99.99% at competitive prices. A New Record Wind turbines delivered Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Richard Conniff | January 03, 2018: Efforts to protect biodiversity are now focusing less on preserving pristine areas and more on finding room for wildlife on the margins of human development. As urban areas keep expanding, it is increasingly the only way to allow species Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Katie Reytar & Peter Veit | GPE – January 03, 2018: Indigenous Peoples and local communities are some of the best environmental stewards. Their livelihoods and cultures depend on forests, clean water and other natural resources, so they have strong incentives to sustainably manage their Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liu | December 31, 2017: China on Thursday opened a 1-km section solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in east China. The road surface is made of a transparent, weight-bearing material that Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mengjie | December 30, 2017: When Xu Xiaobo decided to spend all his savings raising cows five years ago, his EMBA classmates thought the real estate tycoon had gone crazy. Xu, 47, meant what he said. He spent 460 million yuan (70 million U.S. dollars) in Gucheng County, Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Mengjie | December 30, 2017: Beijing has built 112,600 charging poles for new energy cars as of the end of November, local authorities said Saturday. New energy vehicles can have acess to the charging pole service within five kilometers when they drive inside the Sixth Ring Road Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Yamei | December 31, 2017: Lurong Dregar, 19, had been suffering from severe headaches and seizures for years. The mystery illness even left the young Tibetan woman blind in her left eye. It was not until earlier this year when she underwent an MRI scan at a Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | December 30, 2017: We write a lot about electric vehicles here on CleanTechnica, because we’re a tech site. But some of the best ways to cut emissions involve no tech at all. One of the best things you can do to cut your Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | December 27, 2017: The shale gas fracking revolution that began in the United States a decade ago has been one of the worst disasters for the environment since our Canadian friends figured out how to extract oil from the Alberta tar sands. The Read more…
Xinhua | By: Qu Junya | December 26, 2017: The year 2017 has seen the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road reach more peoples and more lands. The year may mark a milestone in materializing the Belt and Road Initiative. Both a vision and Read more…
Shell Foundation & Grantham Institute | By: Various Authors | GPE – December 23, 2017: Executive Summary: Over the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in the deployment of solar home systems, and rural utilities coupled with electrical energy storage devices, enabling off grid access to energy and Read more…
The Guardian | By: Fiona Harvey | December 21, 2017: Researchers plotted temperature rises against the number of asylum applications and are predicting that as the southern hemisphere heats up the number of people migrating to the EU each year will triple. Climate change will drive a huge increase in Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | GPE – December 22, 2017: There is an ongoing struggle going on between solar developers and farmers. Land that is best for solar installations are often well suited to growing crops or raising animals. Some experiments are being conducted to bridge the needs Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Helen Ding, Sofia Faruqi, Caroline Gagné & Andrés Anchondo Ortega | December 19, 2017: Trees are obviously good for the planet. What’s not so clear to most people — governments, NGOs, investors, the public — are their socioeconomic benefits. Trees are essential for the economy, Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Robin King | GPE – December 20, 2017: There has perhaps been more attention paid to affordable housing this year than any in recent memory, but it took a tragedy to make it so. The horror of Grenfell Tower started a national conversation in the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | December 12, 2017: Single use plastic bottles are strangling the earth’s ecosystems. Every plastic water or soda bottle that we buy contributes to ecological degradation in the form of micro plastic — those small particles of plastic that are often invisible to the Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Suzanne Ozment & Rafael Feltran-Barbieri | December 12, 2017: As The Guardian newspaper recently reported, chopping down trees in the Amazon rainforest decreases water supply to distant Sao Paulo, Brazil’s most populous city. Large-scale deforestation disrupts the water cycle and can affect weather patterns thousands Read more…
Bloomberg News | 10 December 2017: $40 billion spent so far on aqueducts to feed northern cities. Government taps technology, boosts food imports to save water Autumn rains came too late to save the stunted stalks of Shu Xinguo’s corn crop, withered by a dry July growing season. “We rely Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – December 12, 2017: In unfolding global energy revolution, expensive and ecologically risky dams may not be right choice to generate more electricity. The bend in the Mekong River where Laotian authorities want to build the Pak Beng hydropower dam is Read more…
Clean Technica | By: The Beam | December 09, 2017: Today we’re able to build self-driving trucks, to communicate with smart humanoids, and to play video games with virtual reality technologies. Yet there are 1.06 billion people living without access to electricity across the world (IEA and World Bank, 2017). Read more…
Pacific Institute: By: Abbey Warner | GPE – December 10, 2017: “Companies seeking to manage water-related business risks can and should contribute to improved water management and governance that is also in the public interest. If done responsibly, integrating private sector action into global policy frameworks and local implementation practices Read more…
Huffington Post | By: John J. Berger | GPE – December 10, 2017: On millions of acres of grazed American range land, if you plunge a shovel into the ground, you’re likely to find light-colored, depleted soil that’s lost much of its carbon-containing organic matter. That’s the stuff that gives Read more…
Reuters | By: Frank Phiri | December 07, 2017: Many parts of Malawi remained without electricity on Thursday after water levels at the country’s two main dams sunk to critical levels and affected hydro power plants, the power utility said on Thursday. Malawi lost around 200 megawatts (MW) of hydro Read more…
Reuters | By: Timothy Gardner | December 05, 2017: Melting Arctic sea ice could render sun-soaked California vulnerable to a recurrence of the severe drought suffered in recent years as it is likely to cause high pressure systems that push away rain-bearing storms, a study released on Tuesday said. As Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Carson Vaughan | December 04, 2017: Planted after the Dust Bowl. Cut down in the climate change era. Surely the end was nigh. Up and down the Great Plains, from the Texas panhandle to the Dakota prairies, dust stripped the paint from their barns, the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Andrea Bertoli | December 05, 2017: So many of us suffer from nature deficit: we spend lots of time indoors, staring at screens both large and small. This is tiring to our brains and our eyeballs, and keeps us from enjoying a connection with trees, plants, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Cynthia Shahan | December 04, 2017: Berlin (Germany) and China are working with nature to create sponge cities that absorb rainwater and cool the city. Even without the challenges of climate change, cities would do well to consider the benefits of imitating natural ecosystems to cool Read more…
William D McMaster | GPE – December 02, 2017: Since the 1970’s Majuli islander Jadav Payeng has been planting trees in order to save his island. To date he has single handedly planted a forest larger than Central Park NYC. His forest has transformed what was once a barren wasteland, Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) | By: Katherine Chrisman & Mark Porter | November 28, 2017: Over the past decade, China has become the world’s leader in wind and solar capacity. Traditionally, China’s electricity structure has been closed off to most forms of corporate renewable procurement. But as a growing number Read more…
ABC News | By: John Flesher | November 28, 2017: Despite recent improvements, the U.S. and Canada have a long way to go toward ridding the Great Lakes of pollution that endangers human health and the environment, an advisory agency said Tuesday. Inadequately treated sewage, industrial chemicals and farm runoff Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrew Mambondiyani | November 27, 2017: Henry Fusirayi Nzarayebani, an elder in Zimunya, a village in eastern Zimbabwe, walks slowly toward plants growing at the edge of a narrow dirt foot path. He plucks a few leaves from a shrub nearly hidden amid a thicket of invasive Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Kyle Field | November 28, 2017: We recently had the opportunity to speak with Craig Wooster, Project Manager & General Contractor at the Stone Edge Farm (SEF) Microgrid Project, about the impressive work the team is doing to take the farm off the grid with sustainable Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Susan Minnemeyer, Nancy Harris, & Octavia Payne | November 27, 2017: New analysis from The Nature Conservancy, WRI and others estimates that stopping deforestation, restoring forests and improving forestry practices could cost-effectively remove 7 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, or as much as eliminating Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | November 24, 2017: Solar panels are wonderful things, but they do take up a lot of space, especially for larger, utility-scale systems. In some densely populated countries like China and India, where loss of farmland can lead to hungry people, floating solar farms Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Ari Natter | November 22, 2017: Hidden in the Trump administration’s $44 billion emergency budget request is a plan to expand an Obama-era effort to make cities and towns resilient to the more frequent storms tied to climate change. The White House budget office is seeking $12 Read more…
Science Daily | Source: University Of Warwick | November 23, 2017: The smallest microplastics in our oceans — which go largely undetected and are potentially harmful — could be more effectively identified using an innovative and inexpensive new method, developed by researchers at the University of Warwick. New research, led Read more…
Forester Network | By: Janice Kaspersen | November 21, 2017: You may have read recently about China’s “sponge cities.” They’re an approach to what we commonly call green infrastructure—an attempt to reduce flooding and infiltrate stormwater runoff in some of the areas most affected by rapid urbanization. China has spent Read more…
Regenesis Remediation Solutions | GPE – November 22, 2017: This video presents a case study of a site contaminated with PFAS, where PlumeStop® Liquid Activated Carbon™ from REGENESIS was injected in-situ, achieving excellent distribution through the subsurface to remove contaminants. Originally published October 02, 2017: Recently, PFAS contamination in groundwater Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – November 22, 2017: PFASs — used in clothing, carpets, cookware, and more — contaminate wells across the United States. Originally published April 18, 2017: The early 1990s were the start of a sizzling decade for ChemFab, a producer of specialized Read more…
The Guardian | By: Peter Walker | November 20, 2017: The chancellor, Philip Hammond, will announce in next week’s budget a “call for evidence” on how taxes or other charges on single-use plastics such as takeaway cartons and packaging could reduce the impact of discarded waste on marine and bird Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Derek Markham | November 14, 2017: The race to electrify long haul trucking, as well as other heavy cargo carriers, is really starting to heat up, and although we’re all waiting for Musk to blow our minds clean out of our skulls with the Tesla semi Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jaideep Bansal | GPE – November 14, 2017: I was recently reading an article on the Grid of the Future where prosumers are both the producers and consumers of the power. It talks about how people will be able to use decentralized microgrids and not Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | November 13, 2017: The Microgrid 2017 conference, which ran from November 6-8 in Boston, kicked off with a list of events that point to a desperate need for microgrids, and I bet you’ve heard of them: February: 300,000 in Pennsylvania March: 800,000 Read more…
Xinhua | Editor: Liangyu | GPE – November 13, 2017: China on Friday launched its first survey of endangered finless porpoises in five years, to monitor their living conditions in moves to better rehabilitate their habitat in the Yangtze River. Originally published November 09, 2017: Two scientific survey ships left Read more…
Science Daily | By: Eric Sorensen – Washington State University | GPE – November 13, 2017: Researchers say landslides on logged forests will be more widespread as the Northwest climate changes. In a study modelled on clear-cut lands on the Olympic Peninsula, they anticipate the climate of 2045 and conclude Read more…
ABC | By: Will Weissert | GPE – November 13, 2017: Texas is lobbying the federal government for $61 billion for infrastructure improvements after Hurricane Harvey’s destruction, arguing that the staggering amount is necessary to “future proof” before the next great storm. Whether Congress will oblige is anyone’s guess. Originally Read more…
The Guardian | By: Michael Slezak | GPE – November 13, 2017: At COP 23 talks in Bonn, Fiji has called on developed nations to help the world’s most vulnerable build resilience to climate change. To prepare for the rising temperatures, strengthening storms and higher sea levels in the coming Read more…
Clean Technica | By:Joshua S Hill | November 09, 2017: Making a global transition to a 100% renewable electricity grid has long been a dream of many, but new research published this week by the Lappeenranta University of Technology has proven it is no longer just a dream but a Read more…
Lazard | November 2017: Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy (“LCOE”) analysis addresses the following topics: Comparative “levelized cost of energy” analysis for various technologies on a $/MWh basis, including sensitivities, as relevant,for U.S. federal tax subsidies, fuel costs, geography and cost of capital, among other factors. Comparison of the implied Read more…
Clean Technica | By Steve Hanley | November 06, 2017: Caroline Power is an underwater photographer who has lived on the island of Roatan in Honduras for the past 11 years. She says the amount of plastic trash floating in the ocean near her home has increased dramatically in the Read more…
Perth Now | By: John Flint | November 06, 2017: Perth’s drinking water catchment has been polluted by waste stockpiles — right under the nose of the State’s environmental watchdog, which was “closely monitoring” activities at the Oakford site, 36km south of the city. In a highly embarrassing development for Read more…
The Guardian | By: Patrick Barkham | GPE – November 06, 2017: Average of 358 items per square kilometre found in 2016, of which more than three-quarters were plastic. Originally published November 03, 2017: There has been a dramatic rise in the amount of litter found on the seabed around Read more…
Xinhua| Editor: Mu Xuequan |November 04, 2017: China should do more to improve water conservancy and water resource saving, Premier Li Keqiang said Friday in a written message to a meeting. Water conservancy infrastructure is key to supply-side structural reform in agriculture and the good of farmers, read the message. Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Molly Bergen | October 24, 2017: Molly Bergen recently traveled to three countries to document field activities of the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE), a U.S. government-funded conservation program implemented by a coalition of NGOs, including WRI. After several hours of bouncing Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | October 28th, 2017: China is getting serious about curbing pollution. According to sources, up to 40% of its factories have been closed at least temporarily recently as the country has struggled to meet its year-end pollution reduction goals. Officials from more than 80,000 Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | October 26, 2017: No end to water crisis in South Africa’s second largest city. After three consecutive dry years, Cape Town resorts to water “blackouts” to conserve water. It’s called Day Zero, the day when the six main reservoirs that supply Cape Read more…
Reuters | By Umberto Bacchi | October 25, 2017: Indonesia is exacerbating the effects of climate change by swapping its rainforest for palm plantations in a switch that could make water more scarce and wildfires more common, scientists said on Wednesday. The world’s biggest producer of palm oil – which Read more…
IRIN | By: Anthony Morland | October 24, 2017: In dryland areas across the world, tens of millions of people raise domesticated animals on open rangeland. Extreme variations in weather mean such pastoralists have to be highly adaptive and deploy a range of specialised skills. Climate change is making this Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Kate King | October 19, 2017: Cape May Point has benefited from a nature preserve built on the site of the former South Cape May, which was abandoned by residents 60 years ago after hurricanes and flooding. Since the preserve was completed, homeowners have Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Fred Pearce | October 17, 2017: Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa. The result has been a wave of environmental refugees, as thousands of people flee, many on boats to Europe. Read more…
The Guardian | Reuters | October 17, 2017: Natural solutions such as tree planting, protecting peatlands and better land management could account for 37% of all cuts needed by 2030, says study. Planting forests and other activities that harness the power of nature could play a major role in limiting Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | October 16, 2017: WWF analysis reports that 40% of rivers are polluted with sewage that can harm wildlife and put human health at risk. Raw sewage is flowing into rivers at thousands of sites across England and Wales, a report has warned, harming Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrei Khalip, Raquel Castillo | October 16, 2017: At least 36 people died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighboring northwestern Spain on Sunday and Monday. Firefighters were battling 50 blazes in Portugal and a similar number in Spain. Read more…
International Renewable Energy Agency | October 2017: Foreword: It is truly remarkable what a difference five years can make in the ongoing transformation of the energy sector. As recently as 2012, questions about high generation costs still overshadowed the rise of solar and wind power. But what was already clear, Read more…
Looking China | Video | October 16, 2017: “Looking China” International Youth Film Project is co-organized by the Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture (AICCC), Beijing Normal University and Huilin Foundation. The program focuses on the young participants’ personal experiences of Chinese culture and encourages them to discover and Read more…
Xinhau | Editor: Yang Yi | October 14, 2017: Philanthropy in China has grown into a sector that has been really contributing a lot to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thanks to the fast development of both Chinese economy and society, UN Development Program (UNDP) China director Agi Veres Read more…