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Mega cities, the face of aspiration and progress of the modern world, have a bad news in Cape Town that has become the face of Water Emergency. According to the United Nations, water scarcity already hits more than 40 percent of the globe’s population and is expected to aggravate further due to

Biodiversity , Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/20/2018

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. On a hot summer afternoon on the banks of the Mahananda river in Malda, West Bengal, we had just finished speaking with a group of village eld

Biodiversity , Environment , Gender , Water / 02/19/2018

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, Uttar Pradesh to Gangotri, Uttarakhand along the Ganga as we documented the river. This article was first published in Veditum and has been republish

Biodiversity , Environment , Food , Sustainable Development / 02/14/2018

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, it will need to demonstrate that it can produce better farmed seafood. Through a partnership, Marina Bay Sands and WWF have jointly developed measurable and achieva

Climate , Data & Reports , Energy , Environment , Resources , Sustainable Development / 02/12/2018

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 has become an important player in the region in recent years. But without a clearly articulated Arctic policy, China’s frontline di

Disasters , Environment , Sustainable Development , Water / 02/04/2018

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

Andrew Slaughter and Sukhmani Mantel Some arid countries have been forced to develop novel technologies and strategies to survive extremely dry conditions. Australia and Israel, for example, have become more resilient as climate change has brought more frequent droughts. Rainfall in South Africa i

Aid , Climate , Energy , Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development / 02/01/2018

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

Soumya Sarkar, Juhi Chaudhary & Sapna Gopal Allocations for renewable energy and environment in India’s federal budget have left both the clean energy sector and conservationists unhappy As the Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley rose in Parliament to present the last full budget of the prese

Biodiversity , Disasters , Environment , Forests , Solutions , Sustainable Development / 01/30/2018

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

Kendra R Chamberlain An assessment concept called the home ignition zone (HIZ) helps homeowners determine how vulnerable their home is to wildfire by looking at factors such as building materials, vegetation and debris In 1992, the city of Wenatchee, Washington, experienced a devastating wildfire th

Biodiversity , Environment , Governance , Sustainable Development / 01/30/2018

Indonesian ruling rings alarms over criminalization of environmental defenders

Hans Nicholas Jong A court in Indonesia has sentenced an anti-mine activist to 10 months in jail on a rarely used charge of promoting communism. The ruling is just the latest in a series of controversial prosecutions of environmental activists and protesters based on draconian or obscure laws, which

Aid , Biodiversity , Environment , Resources , Sustainable Development / 01/27/2018

Livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan in jeopardy

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is seeking $7.5 million to roll out a critically needed emergency livestock vaccination campaign in South Sudan. FAO aims to protect nearly 9 million animals (30 percent of the country’s livestock) – scaling up from 6 million in 2017 –

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