Environment

Bamboo – An Answer to Deforestation or Not in Africa?

By Jeffrey Moyo
Deforestation is haunting the African continent as industrial growth paves over public commons and puts more hectares into private hands.

Sometimes a Single Tree Is More Effective than a Government

By Mallika Aryal
Every morning, Raj Kumari Chaudhari walks from her home to the other end of Padnaha village, located in the Bardiya district of mid-west Nepal, to a big mango tree to offer prayers.

Natural Disasters Cost Asia-Pacific 60 Billion Dollars, 6,000 Lives in 2014

By Josh Butler
Natural disasters in Asian and Pacific nations cost almost 60 billion dollars and killed 6,000 people in 2014.

A New Forensic Weapon to Track Illegal Ivory Trade

By Thalif Deen
The wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC, is deploying a new forensic weapon - DNA testing - to track illegal ivory products responsible for the slaughter of hundreds of endangered elephants in Asia and Africa.

Opinion: Water and the World We Want

By Corinne Schuster-Wallace and Robert Sandford
We have entered a watershed year, a moment critical for humanity.

Mega-Cities, Mortality and Migration

By Joseph Chamie
As the international community marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, one question worthy of some reflection is: Is world population better or worse off demographically since the establishment of the U.N.?

Falling Oil Prices Won’t Derail St. Lucia’s Push for Clean Energy

By Kenton X. Chance
At Plas Kassav, a roadside outlet in Canaries, a rural community in western St. Lucia, a busload of visitors from other Caribbean countries, along with tourists from North America and Europe, sample the 12 flavours of freshly baked cassava bread on sale.

From Brown to Green Again, Trinidadians Reclaim a Forest

By Desmond Brown
Thanks to committed involvement by the local community, the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project has transformed this area of Trinidad from a bare, dusty hillside to one where tall trees flourish, fruit trees grow alongside flowering plants, and more wildlife returns each year.

Big Trouble in the Air in India

By Neeta Lal
Like many others of her age, 15-year-old Aastha Sharma, a Class 10 student at a private school in India’s capital, New Delhi, loves being outdoors, going for walks with her friends and enjoying an occasional ice-cream. But the young girl can't indulge in any of these activities.

Analysis: Collaboration Key for a Clean India

By Neeraj Jain
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to action for a 100 percent Open Defecation Free (ODF) India by 2019 was announced as part of the Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) or Clean India Campaign last year.

Indigenous Food Systems Should Be on the Development Menu

By Valentina Gasbarri
Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality.

Biogas Eases Women’s Household Burden in Rural Cuba

By Ivet González
On the blue flame of her biogas stove, it takes half as long for rural doctor Arianna Toledo to heat bath water and cook dinner as it did four years ago, when she still used electric power or firewood.

Chikungunya Thrives with Climate Variability in the Caribbean

By Jewel Fraser
Jenny had gone to bed feeling well, but an hour into her sleep she suddenly awoke with a “stiff, cramping pain” behind one knee. Within the next hour the pains had multiplied and both knees began to lock, followed by stiffened fingers and pains in her chest, along with a fever.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Climate Change

By Manipadma Jena
So much information about climate change now abounds that it is hard to differentiate fact from fiction. Scientific reports appear alongside conspiracy theories, data is interspersed with drastic predictions about the future, and everywhere one turns, the bad news just seems to be getting worse.

Fighting Climate Change with Community Action

By Desmond Brown
Not far above Trinidad’s capital, Port-of-Spain, in a corner of the St. Ann’s valley in the Northern Range, the community of Fondes Amandes has come together since 1982 to respond to climate change.

Should We Celebrate 10 Years of the Global Tobacco Control Treaty?

By Laurent Huber
February 27 will mark the 10th anniversary of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the first global public health treaty.

Deadly Asbestos Still Costing Lives

By Inés Benítez
“I would get asbestos in my mouth, spit it out and carry on working,” said 52-year-old Francisco Padilla. Exposure to this deadly mineral fibre over most of his working life has resulted in cancer and the removal of his left lung, the lung lining and part of his diaphragm.

Indigenous Peoples – Architects of the Post-2015 Development Agenda

By Valentina Gasbarri
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” – an ancient Indian saying that encapsulates the essence of sustainability as seen by the world’s indigenous people.

Keeping Food Security on the Table at U.N. Climate Talks

By Denise M. Fontanilla and Chris Wright
Food security has become a key issue of the U.N. climate negotiations this week in Geneva as a number of countries and observers raised concerns that recent advances in Lima are in jeopardy.

Getting Bang for the Buck on New Development Goals

By Bjorn Lomborg
Right now, the United Nations is negotiating one of the world’s potentially most powerful policy documents. It can influence trillions of dollars, pull hundreds of millions out of poverty and hunger, reduce violence and improve education — essentially make the world a better place. But much depends on this being done well.

Nepali Children in Dire Need of Mental Health Services

By Mallika Aryal
On the night of Aug. 14, 2014, 10-year-old Hari Karki woke up to his grandfather’s loud yelling in the family’s home in Paagma, a small village in east Nepal.
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