When A River Becomes A Legal Person: A Short Journey Down New Zealand’s Whanganui River
Gary Wockner The Whanganui is the longest navigable river in New Zealand, and its water and the land around it have been at the […]
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Why UNESCO’s ‘natural solutions’ to water problems won’t work in Africa
Mike Muller Although nature based solutions are attractive, these solutions are not the ‘green bullet’ that will solve the world’s water problems. Each year […]
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Building for green growth in Thailand
Thailand seems likely to emerge as a model of green building in Asia, a region that is urbanizing more rapidly than any other in […]
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Rampal coal power plant, Bangladesh, an ethical perspective
Ikhtiar Mohammad While the entire world is moving towards searching for the alternatives, especially renewable energy; Bangladesh India Friendship Power Company is going to […]
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The Cold War’s toxic legacy: Costly, dangerous cleanups at atomic bomb production sites
William J. Kinsella Hanford was one of three large facilities anchoring the Manhattan Project – the crash program to build an atomic bomb. Seventy-five […]
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Notes from the future: A film on Cape Town Water Crisis
The Cape Water Crisis. A film by Andrea Gema Films, produced by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Southern Africa. Cape Town, South Africa, is dealing with […]
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World scientists, local leaders map research agenda for cities and climate change
The Cities IPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, hosted by the City of Edmonton, culminated with the establishment of a global blueprint to […]
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Test spots malaria in two minutes, without blood
Anita Makri It picks up crystals excreted by the malaria parasite and hints at a shift towards self-diagnosis in the community. Magnetism and light […]
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How Climate Change is Altering Air Travel
Fred Pearce Rising tides, icy air, melting permafrost and air that is too hot for take-off are challenging aviation as the world warms. Phoenix […]
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China: Can expressways get people cycling again?
Deng Han Chinese cities are building bicycle expressways but cyclists need more than dedicated lane The bicycle has seen a dramatic fall in popularity in […]
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Restoring forests seen as vital to fighting climate change, extreme poverty
Hugh Biggar In the face of a changing climate and related mass migration and social instability, international experts are now viewing forests and tree […]
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US$ 95 million Sustainability Bond issued for Indonesia for sustainable natural rubber plantation and fighting deforestation
The Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF), a partnership between UN Environment, World Agroforestry Centre, ADM Capital and BNP Paribas, announced its inaugural transaction, a landmark […]
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Peru: Law prioritizes highway construction that could threaten indigenous communities
Yvette Sierra Praeli Peru has passed a controversial law that makes highway construction in border areas and maintaining trucking roads in the Ucayali Region […]
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Egyptian innovators design truck to tackle wheat losses
Hazem Badr A truck designed locally to put an end to wheat losses during transport from fields to storage silos is set for testing […]
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Let’s not make Cape Town face of our water future
Mega cities, the face of aspiration and progress of the modern world, have a bad news in Cape Town that has become the face […]
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Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, saviour of the East Kolkata Wetlands, believed in people and not policies
The environmentalist, who died on Friday, fought his battle as a bureaucrat, researcher, academic, public intellectual and activist It was only 10 years ago. […]
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Walking across India as a Woman – Moving Upstream
Nupur Agarwal This is a guest blog by Nupur Agarwal. She had joined our Moving Upstream project and walked with us for almost 400 kms from Bijnor, […]
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Climate finance and sustainable development go hand-in-hand
To ensure the proper delivery of climate funds, strictly following the top-down approach is required for effective coordination among policy-makers and implementers The Paris […]
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Common products, like perfume, paint and printer ink, are polluting the atmosphere
Jenny Fisher and Kathryn Emmerson Researchers found that ignoring volatile organic compounds from chemical products had significant impacts on predictions of air quality. In outdoor environments, […]
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Global Leaders and WHO establish a commission for Non-Communicable Diseases
WHO announced a new high-level commission, comprised of heads of state and ministers, leaders in health and development and entrepreneurs. The group will propose innovative […]
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Safeguarding our oceans through sustainable seafood
Almost half of the seafood we eat comes from farms. For fish farming (aquaculture) to hold its promise to meet our future food demands, […]
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Could A Rare, Deadly ‘Superbug’ Fungus Be Gaining A Foothold?
David Thill, Medill News Service The number of U.S. patients infected with a rare but dangerous fungal “superbug” called Candida auris has climbed quickly […]
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China commits to Arctic protections but development threats loom
Chen Jiliang Can China’s new Arctic policy protect the region’s delicate ecology? Chen Jiliang takes a look China has long been involved in Arctic affairs and […]
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India’s Aid Diplomacy
Ankit Malhotra For India which was once the world’s biggest remote guide beneficiary, with some USD 55 billion received by the nation in the […]
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