Environment

Myanmar Wakes Up to Climate Change

By Amantha Perera
Between 2008 and 2013, when Myanmar remained largely closed off to the rest of the world, it suffered a terrible toll at the hands of nature that remained largely unknown.

And Not a Drop to Waste

By Stella Paul
As the mercury soars above 40 degrees Celsius, ground water level across India is dropping, making it difficult for farmers to cultivate their fields. This is the season when farmers make a special effort to save their crops from wilting. Failure would see them migrate to the city to search alternative livelihood.

Petrotrin Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint

By Jewel Fraser
Trinidad and Tobago holds the dubious distinction of being among the top 10 emitters of carbon dioxide per capita in the world, much of it due to the petrochemical industry that is the main driver of its economy.

Piping the Waters of Southern Chile to the Thirsty North

By Marianela Jarroud and Orlando Milesi
Three private sector initiatives are aimed at carrying water from the rivers in southern Chile to the arid north of the country by ship or through underwater or underground pipelines. The objective is to slake the thirst of the mining industry of this country, the world’s largest producer of copper.

OP-ED: Caribbean Religious Leaders Inspire IMF Sunday Schools

By Eric LeCompte
Last Fall, I witnessed the Grenada Council of Churches insert themselves into negotiations between their government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) around the island’s debt restructuring and presumed austerity policies. Religious leaders called from pulpits across the tiny island for a “Jubilee” or national debt cancellation.

U.S. Nearing Approval of Next Generation of Herbicide-Resistant Crops

By Carey L. Biron
Two key federal agencies here are in the final stages of approving a new herbicide-resistant crop “system” that would constitute the second phase of genetically engineered agriculture, following an announcement this week.

Sinkholes Opening Up After Tsunami

By Malini Shankar
While the United States Geological Survey (USGS) is sparing no effort to fill a rapidly widening sinkhole in Florida since Apr. 23, India’s Geological Survey has closed its field station in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where sinkholes have sprung up all over as an aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Energy Efficiency Is an Untapped Goldmine

By Stephen Leahy
The U.S. could create more than 600,000 skilled jobs, cut air pollution and fight climate change while its citizens reap 17 billion dollars in energy savings by doing one simple thing: Boost energy efficiency.

Capitalism Unable to Deal with Climate Change

By Farangis Abdurazokzoda
It is time to craft new politics and economic policies to address the sustainability crisis, according to the latest edition of a flagship report by the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank here.

Finding the Needle in the Post-2015 Haystack

By Jonathan Rozen
How will the U.N. prioritise the goals of its Post-2015 Development Agenda? Which goals deserve more funding? And which goals will help the most people? These are the questions that the Copenhagen Consensus Centre (CCC) seeks to answer.

Debt and Dirty Energy Weigh Heavy on Puerto Rico’s Utility

By Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero
Everyone in Puerto Rico agrees that the island's ailing Electric Power Authority (PREPA) is badly in need of an overhaul, both in engineering and economic terms.

The Opportunity of a Plastic Bag

By Gunter Pauli
The European Union was founded to create conditions for a lasting peace on the old continent, establishing an internal market, integrating agriculture and industry. As new generations emerge that have never experienced war or terrorism in Europe, the concept of quality of life increasingly dominates the debate. Will Europe offer its citizens the future all aspire to?

Caribbean Fears Loss of “Keystone Species” to Climate Change

By Desmond Brown
A marine biologist has cautioned that the mass deaths of starfish along the United States west coast in recent months could also occur in the Caribbean region because of climate change, threatening the vital fishing sector.

Q&A: Investment and Research Key to Resilient African Agriculture

By Busani Bafana
There is urgent need to increase the proportion of climate finance for adaptation in Africa by increasing public sector budgets for agriculture and exploring partnerships with the private sector.

India Finds Fishy Ways to Fight Malaria

By Stella Paul
Thirteen-year-old Sampreeth Monteiro’s neighbours are suddenly taking his advice seriously. “Buy a Guppy fish, it will eat all the mosquito eggs in your house. You will not get malaria again.”

U.S. Urged to Tackle Lead in Aviation Gasoline

By Carey L. Biron
Consumer advocates, public health workers and environmental groups here are calling on the federal government to take a formal step towards regulating the use of lead in aviation gasoline, despite a failure to do so for nearly two decades.

Charting a Course for Survival, or Oblivion?

By Stephen Leahy
Hopefully, on Earth Day today, high-level ministers from all countries are thinking about what they can bring to the table at a key set of meetings on climate change in early May.

Weak Laws and Capitalist Economy Deplete Kenya’s Natural Wealth

By Miriam Gathigah
Each season Peter Gichangi, a vegetable and arrowroot commercial farmer who owns four hectares of land in Nyeri County, Kenya’s Central Province, cultivates his crops near the Nduyi River.

Cuba’s Burgeoning Private Sector Hungry for Flora and Fauna

By Ivet González
The lack of markets to supply raw materials for Cuba’s new private sector, along with the poverty in isolated rural communities, is fuelling the poaching of endangered species of flora and fauna.

Mexico’s Climate Change Law – More Than Just Empty Words?

By Emilio Godoy
When Mexico’s climate change law went into effect in October 2012, it drew international praise. But what has happened since then?

Poland Uses Ukraine to Push Coal

By Claudia Ciobanu
A European ‘energy union’ plan proposed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as an EU response to the crisis in Ukraine could be a Trojan horse for fossil fuels.
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