Biodiversity
As the Chitra turns saline, mangroves appear
Kamran Reza Chowdhury Salinisation of freshwater near Sundarbans leading to mangrove forests and spelling the end of an ecosystem that was heavy with sweet […]
Category: Environment
Climate
What are the action points from COP 23?
Here is the new wave of climate action that has been announced during COP23 from countries, cities, states, regions, business and civil society. The […]
Data & Reports
Australia is a global top-ten deforester – and Queensland is leading the way
Noel D Preece and Penny van Oosterzee Eastern Australia ranks alongside these in the top 10 of the world’s major deforestation fronts – the only one […]
Sustainable Business
ING Bank to be investigated for not reporting climate pollution
A climate complaint against ING filed by Greenpeace Netherlands, Oxfam, BankTrack and Milieudefensie for violating OECD guidelines, was accepted by a Dutch representative of […]
Data & Reports
In India, air pollution 2nd largest killer and children are growing smaller lungs
Landmark studies shows air pollution is now the second largest killer in India and another recent study in Journal of Indian Paediatrics shows children in […]
Climate
Ukraine and Belarus can phase-out fossil and nuclear by 2050, if there is a political will
Ukraine and Belarus have necessary technical potential and economic reasoning to implement energy transition and increase the share of “green” energy in the Final […]
Climate
Recreating the Ice age and slowing global warming in remote Russian Artic
In the remote Russian Arctic, an aging scientist and his son are trying to recreate the Ice Age. They call their experiment Pleistocene Park […]
Climate
South Asia needs a plan to address climate-induced migration
Max Martin Natural disasters – such as this year’s heavy rains, floods and cyclones in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar – have become a talking point at COP 23, indicating […]
Climate
New initiatives in energy, water and agriculture sectors announced at COP 23
New commitments and initiatives in energy, water and agriculture sectors were announced, at the United Nations Climate Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, under the […]
Aid
Maldives planning to convert mangroves forest to an airport
Maldives, one of the most vulnerable to climate change is planning to convert mangrove forests that protected against the 2004 devastating tsunami into an […]
Climate
Mangroves vanishing: Is COP 23 listening?
Despite being the fastest disappearing forest ecosystems world wide, the vanishing of mangrove forest ecosystems has not received much public attention, nor in climate […]
Biodiversity
How we discovered a new species of Orangutan in northern Sumatra
Colin Groves & Anton Nurcahyo We have discovered a new species of orangutan – the third known species and the first new great ape to be […]