Open destruction in the Colombian Amazon after FARC’s exit
Esteban Montaño/Semana Sostenible In 2015, 24,142 hectares of forest were lost, which is almost 20 percent of Colombia’s total forested area in that year. The […]
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The electric vehicle boom is coming. What can we learn from early adopters?
Andy Balaskovitz From tiered electric rates to equitable taxes, experienced communities have a lot to teach when it comes to managing the anticipated influx […]
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Reliance on Treatment Plants will not solve India’s River Pollution Problem
Centralised treatment plants and involve a lot of construction activities. Most of our cities along Ganga as well as on other rivers are having […]
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New Zealand puts an end to new permits for exploration of deep-sea oil and gas reserves
James Renwick The New Zealand government’s announcement that it will not issue any new permits for offshore exploration for oil and gas deposits is […]
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Salim Group, Pepsico and Nestle connected to illegal rainforest clearance in Borneo
Major international banks and brands connected to company controlled by notorious Indonesian business tycoon, knowingly clear-cutting tropical rainforests A new report exposes one […]
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New guidances to promote breastfeeding in health facilities issues by WHO and UNICEF
WHO and UNICEF issued new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities globally that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all […]
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Australia stumbles further down the donor generosity rankings
Terence Wood Preliminary OECD data on donor generosity were released. The data cover 2017, and should be troubling to any Australian politician thinking of […]
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Uncontacted tribes’ rights recognized in Peru’s historic land pledge
Peru is to create two Amazonian reserves for the protection of uncontacted tribes, covering more than 2.5 million hectares. At least seven distinct groups […]
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Kolkata India’s air pollution capital
Jayanta Basu Vehicular pollution, particularly from diesel cars and trucks, are primarily responsible for the worsening air quality in Kolkata, which is emerging as […]
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‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Stalk U.S. Hospitals
Liz Szabo The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detected more than 220 cases last year of a rare breed of “nightmare bacteria” that […]
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Masculinity in the Message: Can Understanding Masculinity Improve Gender Intervention?
Ishrat Jahan While program interventions and research initiatives have addressed the debilitating impact on women in urban slums, they have only recently taken into […]
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Draining peatlands leads to greenhouse laughing gas emissions, study shows
Julie Mollins Drained peatlands lead to the significant release of nitrous oxide — a greenhouse gas also known colloquially as laughing gas — leading […]
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Watch: How an Indian professor is turning plastic trash into highways
Todd Reubold Plastic pollution is one of the greatest challenges facing the world. Just last week scientists writing in the journal Scientific Reports announced […]
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Barren hills bring Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshis into conflict
Pinaki Roy The impact of hundreds and thousands of Rohingya refugees have been devastating to the forest cover and water availability in Cox’s Bazar, […]
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Informal Cities and Climate Resilience: building an inclusive approach
Informal settlements in cities of the developing world fare very poor under the ‘risk reducing’ infrastructure parameters of the IPCC. Climate change has brought […]
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For One Father And Son In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria’s Cloud Has Not Lifted
Sarah Varney Inside a darkened bedroom, the elder Martinez, a 67-year-old former star pitcher in the local baseball league, spoons rice and sausage into […]
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Sand Stories: An upcoming publication on the sand crisis
We have unwittingly built ourselves a society that is highly dependent on the consumption of sand in order to maintain a high standard of […]
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Integrated finance for climate and poverty vulnerability
The ultimate successes and failures of climate finance will have diverse consequences for populations living in poverty Climate change induced risks are undermining efforts […]
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An inside look on Eskom’s work with wetlands in South Africa
Wetlands play a crucial role in making cities liveable and sustainable and their effective management need to be a part of planning and development […]
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China’s ministries revamped for “ecological civilisation”
Ma Tianjie and Liu Qin Two new cabinet level ministries will be tasked with managing natural resources and fighting pollution China’s growth story has been an […]
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Gender audits – from paper to practice
Alice Ridge and Juliet Hunt The point at which gender audit findings get translated into practice – is the subject of this qualitative research, recently […]
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Why every day should be World Water Day
Carolyn Johns Most Canadians think of World Water Day as just another international event on the calendar — when water becomes newsworthy for one […]
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Disasters causing billions in agricultural losses, with drought leading the way
Asia hardest hit region, says report on the burden borne by poor farmers due to natural disasters Natural disasters are costing farmers in the […]
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Fracking: Scientific Evidence points towards public health crisis
Health professional groups raise alarm that build-out of drilling and fracking operations is creating a public health crisis. As incontrovertible evidence of harm from […]
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