Environment

Small Island Economies Battered by Erratic Weather

By Desmond Brown
Malcolm Wallace always knew on which side his bread would be buttered.

How to Tell the Biggest Stories of Our Times

By Kanya D'Almeida
What does gorilla conservation have in common with the provision of contraceptives to women? How does rural-urban migration contribute to global warming? What does city planning in Kenya have to do with coastal erosion in the Philippines?

Mayors Leading an Urban Revolution

By Stephen Leahy
With presidents and prime ministers failing to take meaningful action to avert a planetary-scale climate crisis, the mayors of cities and towns are increasingly stepping up to enact changes at the local level.

Q&A: You Are One Percent Away from Being a Bonobo

By Anna Shen
When author Deni Béchard discovered bonobos shared almost 99 percent of human DNA, and based their relationships on cooperation and collaboration, he knew he had to write about them.

Q&A: The Eleventh Hour for Climate Justice

By Lusha Chen
Climate justice – the nexus between human rights and climate change – must be a pillar of the post-2015 development agenda, says former Irish president Mary Robinson.

From Toilet to Tap for Water Scarce City

By Brendon Bosworth
In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the municipality’s sewage and purify it to drinking quality standards.

Climate Change Report “Gives No Reason for Optimism”

By Fabíola Ortiz
Amidst rumours that global warming has slowed over the past 15 years, the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that each of the last three decades has been warmer than any preceding decade since 1850.

CO2 Reshaping the Planet, Meta-Analysis Confirms

By Stephen Leahy
Greenland will eventually truly become green as most of its massive ice sheet is destined to melt, the authoritative U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported Friday.

U.S. Projects 17-Percent Emissions Cut by 2020

By Carey L. Biron
The United States has formally told the United Nations that it is on track to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 17-percent by the end of the decade, assuming that currently proposed regulations are implemented.

Haitian Government Applies Make-up to Misery

By Correspondents
Pink, green, blue, red. From a distance, the thousands of brightly coloured houses look like a painting. The observer can’t see the suffering and dangers threatening the residents of the Jalousie neighbourhood – problems that are being ignored by the government, which is spending six million dollars on a massive make-up job.

Rising Temperatures Hurt Pollination – and Food Production

By Patricia Grogg
A rise in temperature modifies the physiological features of some plants – a consequence of climate change that is less perceptible than stronger and more frequent hurricanes, but just as harmful to food production.

Sunshine Gets Slowly More Energetic in Zimbabwe

By Michelle Chifamba
On top of a small wooden cabin in Norton, a dormitory town outside the capital of Zimbabwe, is a solar panel that Silvester Ngunzi uses to light up his household.

TransBrasil Could Boost Integration in Rio de Janeiro

By Fabíola Ortiz
The TransBrasil bus rapid transit system, which will connect poor suburbs with the centre of Rio de Janeiro, will be the high-speed bus corridor that serves the largest number of commuters in the world.

OP-ED: Sustainable Development Goals After 2015

By Olivier De Schutter, Jochen Flasbarth, and Dr. Hans R. Herren
Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached: At least 870 million people worldwide – and one child in five – still go hungry; this in a world where we already produce enough food today to feed nine billion people in 2050.

Tallying the Benefits of Climate Action

By Carey L. Biron
More than a half-dozen governments on Tuesday launched a yearlong collaborative investigation into the economic benefits of taking broad action to combat global climate action.

Pressure Mounts to Cap Airline Emissions

By Carey L. Biron
A contentious global agreement on how to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the global airline industry will be at the top of the agenda over the next two weeks at an international summit, potentially solidifying details that have yet to emerge after more than a decade and a half of talks.

Ladakh Invites New Scarcities

By Athar Parvaiz
The Ladakh of today is a different world from the one Skarma Namgiyal remembers as a child. Back then, he had taken for granted the breathtaking beauty of its landscape, the purity of the cold mountain air, and the sweet taste of water in its streams.

Zimbabwe Finally Working on Climate Change Policy

By Garikai Chaunza
Despite all the evidence of climate change, Zimbabwe has no policy on climate change. Garikai Chaunza reports from Harare that the country is finally working on a climate change policy.

Making Local People Stewards of the Earth

By Stephen Leahy
The lack of land rights is a crisis not just for local people but for all of humanity, warned organisers at an international conference here.

Trinidad’s Farmers Outpaced by Climate Change

By Jewel Fraser
Dalchan Singh, a root crop farmer and board member of the Agricultural Society of Trinidad and Tobago, says the past year has seen drastic changes in the weather of this twin-island Caribbean nation.

U.S. Proposes Landmark Cap on CO2 from Power Plants

By Carey L. Biron
Regulators here have taken the first major step of President Barack Obama’s second term to scale back U.S. carbon emissions, proposing first-ever rules to dramatically reduce allowable greenhouse gas pollution for future power plants.
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