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UK strips aid ministry of independence

Chinese farmers have been capturing a potent greenhouse gas for decades

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“Earth School” launched to keep students connected to nature in the time of COVID-19

Mastercard Foundation joins FAO to fight Desert Locusts in East Africa

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Rich countries ‘raiding’ developing world’s nurses

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Public Calls for Governments to Close Southeast Asia’s Wildlife Markets

Drug companies should drop their patents and collaborate to fight coronavirus

Trump Administration Uses Wartime Powers To Be First In Line On Medical Supplies

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Lack of new antibiotics threatens global efforts to contain drug-resistant infections

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Australia not to hit its 5% 2020 emissions reduction target till 2030

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Indian government looks to acquire land in Kashmir

WHO urges focus on pregnant women, children to wipe out malaria

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Time for an airshed approach in Delhi NCR

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Kuno, India’s second home for the Asiatic lion, is ready

New records of Greenhouse gas concentrations in atmosphere: WMO

Watch: Australian Flora & Fauna changing due to climate change

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Colonial Hangover: Engineering a season of floods

Despite size, Congo Basin attracts less funding than other major forest areas

Indian scraps “dangerous” forest law after outcry

World’s largest public lending bank withdrawing from fossil fuel

Climate change ‘poses lifelong threat to children’s health’

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Lost Fishing Gear a major ocean pollutant

Antarctica’s first zero emission research station shows that sustainable living is possible anywhere

Asian governments & officials awarded for fighting environmental crimes

Climate refugees stripped of citizenship in Assam, India

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EU provides €40 million for sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific

Colombo Declaration calls for tackling global nitrogen challenge

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Germany freezes funding to WWF earmarked for Congo after reports of human abuse

Improving the monitoring and evaluation of facilities in the Australian aid program

Let’s redefine public spaces, let’s bring back urban forests

The world is off-track on food and agriculture SDG Goals

The gecko smugglers of India’s northeast

African countries and the state of their environments: the best and the worst

How Black Pharmacists Are Closing The Cultural Gap In Health Care in US

Global pact to stop air pollution

Can smartphone apps help solve the world’s food waste problem?

Wind from the sea is changing, cities need to change

Implementing, Scaling and Planning for Aid Exit and Sustainability

Sanitation shock: Half of global population lack access to safe sanitation

World Meteorological Organization to undergo sweeping reforms

Satellite imagery helps Ghana fight illegal mining

Watch: Kokoli-Love during climate emergency

UNEP launches new textbook on the Green Economy

Nigerian fishers hit by criminals, imports and climate change

G20 Finance Ministers Must Face Climate Risk to Economy

BBC expose on $10BN deal shows BP maybe complicit in corruption

Electric buses a golden opportunity for India

WWF hit by another exposé of ranger abuses

Managing the transition from aid: lessons for donors and recipients

Watch in VR-TRASHED: The Tijuana River Valley Pollution Crisis

Five billion people at risk from industrial trans fat exposure

In an era of mass extinction, who decides which species to save – and how?

Just One-Third of the World’s Longest Rivers Remain Free-Flowing

Supporting working mothers can save her child’s life

What happens when you throw away pencil cells?

Solomon Islanders tried to stop the logging of their forests – and may pay the price

Indonesian government blocking efforts to reform palm oil industry

Rewriting genes could have broad knock-on effects on nature

5 low-cost technologies that help protect Latin America’s environment

Yemen’s forests another casualty of war amid fuel crisis

How a Japanese system can help African cities adapt to climate change

2019 Goldman Environmental Prize Honours Six Environmental Heroes

Millions of dollars’ worth of food ends up in school trash cans every day. What can we do?

Urgent action needed to avert antimicrobial resistance crisis

WHO releases first guideline on digital health interventions

Yemen nearing the worlds worst cholera outbreak

A message to Indian urban voters from forests, rivers and indigenous communities

New waste treatment plant brings hope to Rohingyas

Blockchain for development

First-Ever Ross Prize for Urban Transformation Awarded to Tanzanian Initiative

Diseases cost Africa US$2.4 trillion

PERU’S FOREST INSPECTION AGENCY REGAINS INDEPENDENCE

Cyclone Idai shows why long-term disaster resilience is so crucial

UK’s Charity Commission launches investigation into WWF

Acute hunger affecting over 100 million people worldwide

India has lost shore land of Nagpur city size to coastal erosion

Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania Seek Solutions to Irregular Migration on Southern Route

Time for a policy to declare ‘urban drought’ to end hardships of poor women in India

Bangladesh Bhola power project tests AIIB promises

How Insane is Global Trade?

Youth urged upon to lead conservation efforts

Forest protection efforts earn Indonesia millions

Experts underline community participation to protect forests, rivers in India river conference

Billions deprived of the right to water: World Water Development Report

From the Himalayas to the Arctic, traditional herders are sharing knowledge to cope with a changing climate

Weathermen: Listen to the fishers, it works

‘Medieval’ Diseases Flare in US As Unsanitary Living Conditions Proliferate

Communities challenge lithium production in Argentina

Arctic winter temperatures will increase 3-5°C by 2050

WHO launches new global influenza strategy

First ever global scientific eating plan forgets the world’s poor

Accountability Can Reverse Plastic Pollution Crisis, says WWF Report

Buzzfeed report exposes abuses on global scale by WWF-funded guards

America uses 322 billion gallons of water each day. Here’s where it goes.

Ebola Escalated Response: WB commits US$80 Million to DR Congo

Climate’s ‘time bomb’ for world’s groundwater has some serious lessons for Indian cities

Why the IDRC won’t rush its open data policy

Waste brine – ecological problem or economic opportunity?

New UN report reveals that hunger in Africa continues to rise

Are oil rights in Salonga National Park in DR Congo null and void?

Mangroves destruction in Maldives-islands’ biggest ecocide

Environmental laws only look good on paper, UN says

A village goes mobile’: mobile phones and social change

Climate Crisis: We only have 12 years to save ourselves, let’s act fast!

Change diets and food production to save people and planet, says Lancet

Watch: Destruction of the Environment as a Consequence of Overpopulation

Renewable Energy the Most Competitive Source of New Power Generation in GCC

Google commits to buy solar power in Asia

Alliance to Harness Tech Disruptions in Urban Transport

Secretive ‘Rebate Trap’ in US Keeps Generic Drugs For Diabetes And Other Ills Out Of Reach

Managed bees versus wild bees? It’s not that simple in South Africa

Investigative journalist Ahmed Divela shot dead in Ghana

Swept Up in Migration Surge, Children Struggle in Streets of Djibouti

Mahanadi river in India is Coal Rich but Water Stressed

Fishing village hit by chemical leak in China

World Bank and Bangladesh sign agreement for more and better Jobs

Techno-Fantasies and Eco-Realities

#MvTreeGrab: Removal of trees continues for landscaping of resorts in Maldives

The tiny group controlling England’s water industry

For better farm yields in Brazil, a simple registration can help

World Bank President Kim to Step Down before term completion

Narcissism And Hubris Cause The Death Of An NGO

How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse

Bolsonaro “declares war” on Brazil’s indigenous peoples

Pakistan can meet SDGs by tapping wind, solar energy

Holiday Hallelujahs and my Wish List for Sustained Impact(s)

Taiwan has one of the Highest Recycling Rates in the World. Here’s how it happened.

Japan quietly withdraws from International Whaling Commission

Bamboo Treatment Plants to Repel Beetles Attacking Bangladesh Refugee Camps

Disaster Flood in the Tigris – Made by a Dam

Brazil launches operation to save surviving members of uncontacted tribe

Conservationists clash over coral reefs

UNAIDS leader to resign next year after review voices “no confidence”

Weak workplan wounds Paris Agreement

Afghanistan scales up ecosystem-based solutions to help build disaster resilience

WHO report highlights poor safety on the world’s roads

Why we should stop labelling people climate change deniers

World Bank Group Announces $200 billion over Five Years for Climate Action

Calls for Police Protection for Uncontacted Tribe

Indian Cities need multi-pronged efforts to conserve groundwater

Remittances and migration: the case of Nepal

State and Regional Governments Decarbonizing at Double the Rate of G20 Governments

HSBC CEO Slammed For Coal Double-Standard at Climate Finance Summit

From German Trains to South Korean Buses, Hydrogen Fuel is back in the Energy Picture

Global wage growth lowest since 2008: ILO

Textile industry under pressure to detox fashion

IUCN lists 15 new sites as world’s best protected areas

Top-down mindset bedevils India’s draft river management bill

Equity and Transparency in Climate Finance: Expectation in COP-24

Boycott Black Friday

Navi Mumbai in airport India ignores climate resilience

WHO launches new response initiative to put malaria control efforts back on track

620 million children’s education and health compromised by lack of decent school toilets

Greenpeace activists arrested on ship loaded with palm oil heading to Europe

Global Cooperation And Regulation required to Multilayered Threats from New Technology

Companies are seizing new markets in clean energy aiming to cap global warming at 1.5 °C

Don’t Burn Your House to Smoke out a Rat: Climate Change Interventions

Novel approach brings African scientists closer to a malaria vaccine

Indian Environmental activist assaulted by coal mafia

The unique Himalayan wetlands under threat

Billions In ‘Questionable Payments’ Went To California’s Medicaid Insurers And Providers

Costs, risks and benefits: can carbon sequestration take off?

Count the ecological costs of national waterways project in India!

Air pollution leads to millions of emergency room visits for asthma attacks

Mahanadi river in India is Coal Rich but Water Stressed

Making forests the focus of global bioeconomies

North India chokes as farmers set stubble ablaze

Hydropower project in DR Congo : A Deal for Chinese and European companies

Model shows pathway to feeding the world

Chinese logging put Solomon Islands rainforests at risk

Top Madagascar shrimp co. moved millions among tax-haven shell companies

Coconut rhinoceros beetle: a huge threat in Solomon Islands and the Pacific

World Bank, Asian Development Bank, still pouring billions into fossil fuels in climate-vulnerable

Innovation in Maternal Healthcare – Starts with a Chair in Bangladesh

Indian Environmental Activist G D Agarwal passes away fasting for saving Ganga

Environment and politics in Bhutan’s elections

Why do we demolish buildings instead of de-constructing them for reuse?

Comptroller DiNapoli cost New Yorkers over $22 billion for refusing fossil fuel divestment

Millions Face The Life-Threatening Dangers Of Poor Sanitation

New Studies Show Progress Against Ivory Trade, Thanks to China Ban

Targeting non-communicable diseases, icddr,b in Bangladesh is paving the way for a healthier future

Empowering women lies at the centre of controlling population growth in Africa

Conflicts and climatic shocks aggravate current food insecurity in many countries

CAN CHINA REALLY LEAD THE WAY TO AN “ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION”?

African swine fever ‘devastating’ if it spreads beyond China

Garbage menace: Why should urban planners in India take the Court observations seriously?

Partnership Campaign to Save the Paris Agreement

Progress Urged As Bangkok Climate Talks Open To Prepare Paris Agreement Implementation

Watch: Japan’s Town With No Waste

Brazil hits emissions target early, but rising deforestation risks reversal

Parent Alert! Your Kid May Be Vaping More Than Tobacco

Kerala shows the risk of severe floods is still evolving

A new perspective on aid delivery

Photo feature: Locals in Bhutan and India join across border to manage a river

World Orangutan Day: Numbers in decline despite Indonesian government’s claims

Indigenous Environmental Defender killed as logging mafia targets tribe in Brazil

Fiery summer a gauge of our planet’s health

600,000 hit by earthquake in Lombak, Indonesia

Extreme weather renews focus on adaptation

Undercover British cops stifled green movements, developed intimate relations, violated rights

Secret files reveal how UN climate advisers ‘greenwashed’ for BP

Why the UK needs to stop exporting plastic waste

Cover-up: Brazilian government plot to open up uncontacted tribe’s territory revealed

The carbon footprint of TB treatment

27 countries heading for COVID-19-driven food crises

How NASA satellites track changes in the world’s water systems

Toxins on our plate: India

Global mobilisation for Rise for Climate Action

India needs big policy push for treatment and reuse of urban wastewater

Has the Netherlands figured out how to mainstream seaweed?

One in Seven Wildlife Rangers Have Been Seriously Injured in the Line of Duty Over the Past Year

Three Nobel Prizes in economics ≠ the truth about aid

2017, the Deadliest Year for Land and Environmental Defenders as Agri-Business Most Linked to Killings

Unlocked And Loaded: Families Confront Dementia And Guns in US

Retaining forests benefits African farmers, new study finds

Busted: The many myths of why government contracts should not be published

Why even small hydropower plants shouldn’t be built in protected areas: photo evidence

Watch: Fix And Release-A Turtle Trauma Centre

Nairobi is planning car-free days. They could bring many benefits

Breaking menstruation taboo: Nepal

Supply Chain Accountability in Apparel Industry

Mahathir picks a water fight with Singapore

Aquaculture is source of 53 % of all global fish consumption

Cities can lead Inter-state cooperation needed to clean up India’s polluted Rivers

The Millennial social entrepreneur striving to get 260 million children back into school

Strengthen local forest rights for best climate solutions

In disasters, violence against women is the huge, often hidden story

World Meteorological Organization steps up action on water

icddr,b conducts first ever household level tracking of cholera transmission in Dhaka

Deadly measles epidemic hits isolated Yanomami tribe

Fearing Deportation, Immigrant Parents Are Opting Out Of Health Benefits For Kids in US

Lewis Pugh to swim across the English Channel to raise awareness for ocean protection

Uranium ‘widespread’ in India’s groundwater

Germany sanctioned for polluting water by industrial farming manure

Indian Treepie: The tooth-pick of the Tiger

Facebook video shows orangutan defending forest against bulldozer

Protecting young Indonesian hearts from tobacco

Drought in Iraq has other reasons-not the Ilisu Dam Reservoir

World wakes up to climate migration

How a novel wireless technology is helping conserve wildlife, fight pollution, save farmers money and more

Scientists find Europe’s last primary forests

What About the Boys?

Global call on G7 and Corporates to end plastic pollution crisis

Impact of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on Indian Businesses

Cancers linked to obesity to double by 2025 in Brazil

Nobody Wants You To Know What Is Happening In Ethiopia

“Guardians of the Amazon” seize illegal loggers to protect uncontacted tribe

Are we ready for the next Pompeii-learning from past disasters

Better insurance is vital to protecting our ocean

Setting a higher bar: Sustained Impacts are about All of us

Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong

U.S. environmental groups are largely white. Here’s what some are — and some aren’t — doing about it.

Climate change could put food supply for migratory birds at risk

Development workers behaving badly

HydroConference: a very urgent need to improve water management

ENOUGH | The Empowered Women of Korogocho

Bhutan to graduate from being a Least Developed Country

Climate finance – not kind, climate justice

Asian Cities pollute our Seas the most, must act together to curb it!

Solar Project to Restore Electricity to a Million Yemenis signed by WB and UNOPS

Blood transfusions a ‘hidden’ malaria risk

UN issues first guidance for banking industry to become more transparent on climate issues

Half of Earth’s satellites restrict use of climate data

Do no harm: A code to guide use of humanitarian drones

Tribunals alone can’t save dying rivers in India: Experts

Building a forest in the heart of Karachi

Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit

The electric vehicle boom is coming. What can we learn from early adopters?

Reliance on Treatment Plants will not solve India’s River Pollution Problem

New Zealand puts an end to new permits for exploration of deep-sea oil and gas reserves

Salim Group, Pepsico and Nestle connected to illegal rainforest clearance in Borneo

New guidances to promote breastfeeding in health facilities issues by WHO and UNICEF

Australia stumbles further down the donor generosity rankings

Uncontacted tribes’ rights recognized in Peru’s historic land pledge

Kolkata India’s air pollution capital

‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Stalk U.S. Hospitals

Masculinity in the Message: Can Understanding Masculinity Improve Gender Intervention?

Draining peatlands leads to greenhouse laughing gas emissions, study shows

Watch: How an Indian professor is turning plastic trash into highways

Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict

Informal Cities and Climate Resilience: building an inclusive approach

For One Father And Son In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s Cloud Has Not Lifted

Sand Stories: An upcoming publication on the sand crisis

Integrated finance for climate and poverty vulnerability

China’s ministries revamped for “ecological civilisation”

Gender audits – from paper to practice

Why every day should be World Water Day

Disasters causing billions in agricultural losses, with drought leading the way

Fracking: Scientific Evidence points towards public health crisis

When A River Becomes A Legal Person: A Short Journey Down New Zealand’s Whanganui River

Why UNESCO’s ‘natural solutions’ to water problems won’t work in Africa

Building for green growth in Thailand

Rampal coal power plant, Bangladesh, an ethical perspective

The Cold War’s toxic legacy: Costly, dangerous cleanups at atomic bomb production sites

Notes from the future: A film on Cape Town Water Crisis

World scientists, local leaders map research agenda for cities and climate change

Test spots malaria in two minutes, without blood

How Climate Change is Altering Air Travel

China: Can expressways get people cycling again?

Restoring forests seen as vital to fighting climate change, extreme poverty

US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond issued for Indonesia for sustainable natural rubber plantation and fighting deforestation

Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities

Egyptian innovators design truck to tackle wheat losses

Let’s not make Cape Town face of our water future

Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, saviour of the East Kolkata Wetlands, believed in people and not policies

Walking across India as a Woman – Moving Upstream

Climate finance and sustainable development go hand-in-hand

Common products, like perfume, paint and printer ink, are polluting the atmosphere

Global Leaders and WHO establish a commission for Non-Communicable Diseases

Safeguarding our oceans through sustainable seafood

Could A Rare, Deadly ‘Superbug’ Fungus Be Gaining A Foothold?

China commits to Arctic protections but development threats loom

India’s Aid Diplomacy

Mauritania: Activist Arrested for Social Media Posts

Local Accountability and Transparency… During and Post Project?

Dengue vaccination: when being the first is a bad idea

What southern Africa can learn from other countries about adapting to drought

Aid evaluations: an integration success story

Environment and climate change gets short shrift in India’s budget

Humans need to learn to co-exist with wildfires. Here’s how we can do it.

Indonesian ruling rings alarms over criminalization of environmental defenders

Impact Investing – International Development’s New Holy Grail?

Livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan in jeopardy

Indian Cities need to have River Pollution Abatement Plans and Task Forces

Here come the megacities

Green College: Education with a Purpose

Corporate CEO’s earn a workers lifetime salary in less than a week

How blockchain is strengthening tuna traceability to combat illegal fishing

Methane from Indian livestock adds to global warming

Dhaka chokes on air pollution

Farming for a Small Planet: Alternatives to Industrial Agriculture

Listen: How A ‘Hippie Clinic’ In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy

A Roadmap to Improve Newborn Health in Bangladesh

Woman mason rebuilds life after devastation of Cyclone Phailin

2017: the year in extreme weather

Shocking scale of attack on children around the world: UNICEF

China under intense pressure to relax waste ban

Small hydropower plants damaging Balkan landscapes

Cities need to invest in living infrastructures to be climate resilient

Liberian Loggers Secret Tax Breaks wipes US$ 13 Million off Country’s Finances

Illegal Sand Mining 2017: Indian Rivers Continue To Loose Mindless Mining Battle

Can Economics of Degrowth Eradicate Poverty?

Women, Peace and Security in Australia and the SDGs

Bhutan’s Shingkhar-Gorgan highway: development versus environment?

‘A vicious cycle towards extinction:’ Hunting and trade can push even abundant wildlife populations to the brink

COP23 and Historical Responsibility in Climate Finance

Living in the era of Superbugs: Curse and Remedy

UN says lift in global economy brings opportunities to tackle major development issues

Organic label suffers setback in US, as big agri-business takes over

Assam youth are netting healthy incomes from fish seeds

Philippines initiates world’s first human rights investigation into corporate responsibility for climate change

Women file sexism complaint to UN against UK police spies

Antimicrobial resistance from environmental pollution among biggest emerging health threats, says UN Environment

India’s energy subsidies favour fossil fuels over renewables

Sustainable Investment: A distinct possibility, or just another buzzword?

Watch: How a “Fixers Club” in Argentina is pushing back against our throwaway culture

Millions of Yemenis on verge of losing clean running water

Menstrual hygiene management in the Pacific: women’s and girl’s experiences

New Delhi smog “rivals 1952 London”

Liquid Gold: Pain Doctors Soak Up Profits By Screening Urine For Drugs in US

As the Chitra turns saline, mangroves appear

New fish smoking ovens launched in Asia

What are the action points from COP 23?

Australia is a global top-ten deforester – and Queensland is leading the way

ING Bank to be investigated for not reporting climate pollution

In India, air pollution 2nd largest killer and children are growing smaller lungs

Ukraine and Belarus can phase-out fossil and nuclear by 2050, if there is a political will

Recreating the Ice age and slowing global warming in remote Russian Artic

South Asia needs a plan to address climate-induced migration

New initiatives in energy, water and agriculture sectors announced at COP 23

Maldives planning to convert mangroves forest to an airport

Mangroves vanishing: Is COP 23 listening?

How we discovered a new species of Orangutan in northern Sumatra

Deep in the jungle, scientists explore the links between the Congo and climate change

There is a need for a stronger tribal voice at COP 23

When the cities sink, what’s the water that stinks?

China plans to turn Xingiang into California by diverting the Brahmaputra water, reports South China Morning Post

Paris pledges only a third of what is needed to avoid worst impacts of climate change

Climate finance failing on forest protection

In 17 years, about 1.6 trillion dollars spent on sustainable development; very few undergo post-project evaluation

Seven African countries show how the battle against malnutrition can be won

What are the expectations from COP 23?

With storms intensifying and oceans on the rise, Boston weighs strategies for staying dry

Global Education Monitoring Report says governments need to be more accountable

Running on biogas in Bangladesh

India’s National Register of Large Dams: Shows how little we know about our dams

Dams on Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river could fuel more conflicts in the country

Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil

Outrage as tour operators sell “human safaris” in Andaman Islands, India

Rabobank and UN Environment create new billion-dollar facility for sustainable agriculture

Climate Finance and Governance in South Asia-Key to SDGs

Hunger a ‘Serious’ problem in India, more acute than even Nepal and Bangladesh

Climate disconnect in India’s smart cities mission

FAO seeks to shift African, Caribbean and Pacific countries from wildmeat to alternative sources of food

Watch Omaio Maori community efforts at sustainable development

Aid cuts undermine regional health security: Australia

How Mount Agung’s eruption can create the world’s most fertile soil

Every Londoner is exposed to dangerous toxic air particles

Clean tech can help Colombia build strong and lasting peace

Discrimination vs Diversity: trying to work for an NGO or government agency in Germany

Tourism sidelines Conservation in Kaziranga, India

Most countries lagging on health SDGs

For Some Refugees, Women’s Health Care Is A Culture Shock

Are rising heat and humidity fuelling deaths by lightning?

Widespread abuse funded by big conservation organizations

Niyamgiri tribe revive wild harvests after Vedanta victory, India

Climate Justice in Sapmi: Frontline truths from Europe’s Far North

Are our cities prepared for extreme precipitation dates?

USA: Without Price Breaks, Rural Hospitals Struggle To Stock Costly, Lifesaving Drugs

Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation awards $20 million in environmental grants

Does the World Have Enough Midwives?

African antelopes and North American Ash tree on verge of extinction

The 30-year-old ozone layer treaty has a new role: fighting climate change

Watch: Independent air pollution monitoring in the Balkans

Fulfilling SDG 4 on Education at risk as 3.5 million refugee children deprived of schooling

After 70 Years, Wild Tigers Returning to Kazakhstan

Goldminers “massacre” uncontacted Amazon Indians in Brazil

Cambodian biodigester finds success, attracts investors

Are you drinking plastic water? Yes, says a new study

Survival International–WWF talks break down over tribal consent

Myanmar: A mixed bag of poverty reduction and human rights violations

Acid drainage: the global environmental crisis you’ve never heard of

Ozone air pollution, kills a million every year

Spycops targeting NGOs & activists under the spotlight at EU Parliament

Bangladesh eliminates post-flood disease deaths

The world protests as Amazon forests are opened to mining

Lead poisoning, gasoline lobbies and crime

Why Toilet is not a Prem Katha (Love Story)

UNICEF and WHO vaccinates children in crumbling IS territory

Archaeological sites being destroyed to build dam in Turkey

Bringing Healthcare within Walkable Distance

World comes together to tackle mercury poisoning

It’s time to start thinking about our digital carbon footprint

Germany’s green roofs offer lesson on climate change adaptation

Untreated wastewater from cities expose 885 million people to severe health risks globally

Brahmaputra basin faces unprecedented flood wave in August 2017

Asthma, More Deadly With Age, Takes Heavy Toll On Older Adults

Innovation to solve the water crisis among coastal communities in Bangladesh

Dear Lancet, its pesticides that killed children, not lychees

Dengue virus rides Asia’s airline networks

Breastfeeding: No country meets recommended standards

Poor households are locked out of green energy, unless governments help

Introduction to Sustainable Development Goals for Urban Managers

The Guardian on seasonal workers: poor journalism

Calculate your own Earth Overshoot Day with the new calculator

Revealed: 91% of Karachi’s water unfit to drink

Do Fidget Spinners help ADH or autism disorder?

The role of humanitarian academics in a post-truth world

Universal Health Coverage: Our Role in Advancing the Agenda in Bangladesh

Fifteen eco-friendly African start-ups receive prestigious Green Awards

What Cape Town can learn from Windhoek on surviving droughts

Whither aid? Perspectives from developing countries

Community-led adaptation: Myth or reality?

US mayors pledge to fight climate change

Zero-Coal State Strategy and the ethical dilemma: wind power project in Canada

Bhopal’s bike sharing sets new trend in India

At a slow pace, G20 begins transition to low-carbon economy

We need more than just extra water to save the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia

India: Tribal leader dies in police custody – as tribe denounce harassment campaign

Cuba, the Urban Agricultural Pioneers

Student battles New Zealand government in climate lawsuit

Central African Republic: An inside look into the social media world of diamond smuggling

The Hidden Problem: Shadows of Mental Stress Over Urban Adolescents

All Kids Should Be Screened for Obesity

Aquaculture is main driver of mangrove losses

Climate impacts hit 750 million South Asians over 10 years

In the depths of the oceans, human activities are beginning to take their toll

Clean energy for green environment

The tough job facing Tedros, WHO’s first African head

Tamenglong in Manipur, India opposes oil exploration

Technology, Violence, Vendetta against women

Bonn talks reveal uncertainty over Paris Agreement

Global Peatlands Initiative: Indonesia leading to Save the World’s Peat

Study reveals the gender gap in Tanzania, Uganda climate policies

Why India and China are driving the global green shift

A study in blue: The Tickell’s blue flycatcher

Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?

A smart village rises in Bengal, India through agricultural entrepreneurship

What is 5D money for a city of the future?

Earth Day: Eight amazing facts that prove tribal people are the best conservationists

Insurgency, Terrorism and Organised Crime in a Warming Climate: A new report warns

Science is a social process: facilitating community interactions across the research lifecycle

Here’s what we need to accelerate progress on the UN’s 2030 global energy goals

Johannesburg’s bike lanes are not well used. Here’s why

Globally, record new renewable power capacity added at lower cost

The Carbon Footprint of a Cheeseburger

Bangalore lost homes with gardens

How to Make Compost From Your Poo! – Closing the Loop

El Salvador, first country to ban mining

A quiet value chain revolution is sweeping farmers, food & cities

Solar for work in Bangladesh

Kenya creates online system to monitor rural sanitation

India Pakistan resume talks on Indus Treaty: Stakes are high

How a UN platform to stop biodiversity loss could up its game

Kenya announces breakthrough ban on plastic bags

EU and UNICEF to reach thousands of refugee children in Turkey with Conditional Cash Transfer for Education

Canadian oil company pulls out of uncontacted tribes land in Peru

Proposed Law Would Require All California Children To Be Screened For Lead

Climate change drives up river salinity in Bangladesh

Water Restrictions Force Pepsi to Cease Production

Effective climate adaptation requires effective financing

A year after Berta Cáceres’ murder, protecting the planet is just as deadly

Rio carnival stars environmental disaster

Watch: Seed vault holds key to human survival

What we need are farms that support farmers, consumers AND the environment

BBC banned from India’s tiger reserves after “shoot on sight” investigation

Australia’s 2016 environment scorecard: rains return but in some cases too late

Sindh People March to Protect Indus River

Greater Racket-tailed Drongo: A great Mimic

Data platform launched by UNEP to track SDGs

Modern Communication technology at the centre of better work-life balance: New ILO report

India’s militant rhino protectors are challenging traditional views of how conservation works

Language a barrier to flow of scientific knowledge

River Basin Management needs sensitive and responsible cities

Tibetan Mastiffs: Abandoned and dangerous

The secret lives of urban waste pickers

Is warming behind India’s depleting groundwater?

Toilets that churn gold for the soil

How renewable energy advocates are hurting the climate cause

60% of primate species now threatened with extinction, says major new study

Polluted air beyond permissible standards across India: Greenpeace

The future of two wheeler cities: Amsterdam and Hanoi

US$21 million grant for Mauritania to boost food security

German G20 Presidency launches GreenInvest platform for green finance

Pasighat in India reaffirms opposition to big dam

OECD investigates WWF for funding human right abuses

What does the environment have to do with diseases that affect the immune system?

Women bear the brunt of climate-forced migration

The well diggers of Bengaluru: Tradition and modernity

2016- A Year of Climate Change!

Alleged Scheme To Fix Generic Drug Prices in US Started At Dinners And ‘Girls Nights Out’

Introducing the City Water Project!

Peru: Last female speaker of indigenous Amazonian language murdered

Farakka Refugees: Walking along Ganga from Gangasagar to Gaumukh

Biodiversity talks end with slew of announcements

Indian Meteorological Department estimates rainwater harvesting potential of Maharashtra

Environmental crime threatening peace and security: INTERPOL & UNEP

How “open source” seed producers from the U.S. to India are changing global food production

Embedding Sustainability Everywhere – All Five Slices Now

Fault lines in the Great Indian Poverty debate

Renewables remain marginal to Bangladesh’s energy plans

Indian Court Stops Water to Coke, Pepsi Plants in Tamil Nadu

Drought-resistant grass to spur milk production

Poll: Will Donald Trump quit the Paris Climate Agreement?

Swachh Bharat: It’s Time To Stop Sweeping Accountability Aside

G20 countries still financing overseas coal

Entrepreneurial companies seeks sanitation startups

COP22 lauds success of Paris Agreement

Incredible new photos of uncontacted Amazon tribe – that could be wiped out

12,000 U.S. schools are within a mile of a hazardous chemical facility. What should we do about that?

Iran dam to affect Iraq

The road to Marrakech

Billionaire’s elephant-hunting safaris implicated in “Pygmy” abuses

Watch dramatic Climate Change movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio

COP22 to set the scene for a sustainable planet

Shocking 58% decline in Global Wildlife population: WWF

These East African countries show how teamwork and technology can thwart illegal fishing

Renewable energy is the best solution to the climate crisis towards a sustainable world

Civil society needed to enforce environmental law

Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forests under threat from a power plant

Agriculture has big role to play in curbing greenhouse gas emissions: 2016 State of Food & Agriculture report

There are No Winners in Pac Rim Mining Company vs El Salvador

The new UN deal on aviation emissions leaves much to be desired

Climate change and the boatman

Nanotech bandage heals wounds in days

Most people breathe in polluted air: WHO

A citizen science revolution?

Welcome to Masdar City: the ultimate experiment in sustainable urban living

Can upscale chocolate turn the tide on Haiti’s devastating deforestation?

UNHCR reports crisis in refugee education

Paraguay Government defies order to protect un-contacted tribe

NGO focus: Work of ASODECOM, Burundi

Drought management: Successes in Solapur, India

Earth Temperature Timeline

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Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Events / 12/26/2016

Introducing the City Water Project!

A project to empower local groups seeking to promote (their good) or improve (their bad) water quality.

I’m working with four students on a project to empower local groups seeking to promote (their good) or improve (their bad) water quality.

Watch this video (in HD, with subtitles of your choice) to learn more.

This project is just emerging from beta testing, and we’re looking for partners in new cities. Check out the website for more!

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