LONDON – Global warming is drying up mountain lakes and wetlands in the Andes and threatening water supplies to major South American cities such as La Paz, Bogota and Quito, World Bank research shows.
The last Sunday in July is International Bog Day, an annual event that celebrates the beauty of bogs and raises awareness of the need to conserve them. Although bogs take about 10,000 years to form, as much as 96% of them have been destroyed since 1945. Worse still, damaged bogs emit large quantities of greenhouse [...]
Yesterday, thick among the gleeful, chanting, throngs of Live Earth, I had to make a decision; fight my way in and out of the crowds to my computer or listen to Ludacris. In the end, I let the music win. Live Earth was literally captivating. What can I say? I do have some highlights for [...]
The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), with the financial assistance from Coca-Cola HBC Romania, launches its Training for Young Environmental Leaders programme for participants from Romania and Moldova.
It's not just the environment that stands to benefit from renewable sources of energy like solar power. According to a new white paper released by the IC² Institute at the University of…
In this episode, the fifth of six from Luminous Green, I speak with Slovenian-born multimedia performance artist Marko Peljhan, coordinator of Project Atol, Makrolab, and Insular Technologies, a high-frequency global radio network initiative. For the past few years Marko has been overseeing the design for the Arctic and Antarctic Makrolab projects, within the larger framework [...]
We come across a lot of interesting ideas and innovative solutions, but we choose only a few to discuss in detail. The best of the stories we don’t cover get selected and collated as headlines in News and Views. It’s like a little Worldchanging news service, and if you haven’t noticed, the daily News and [...]
MakeMeSustainable.com Editor's note: As many of you know, we often do a Weekend Web Review, but decided we'd wait one day to introduce you to MakeMeSustainable.com, which launched…
Do you ever find yourself thinking, "but I will wear that… one of these days.' Once you've finally decided you're not really going to wear that old shirt any more, or those pants…
Editor's note: Our biweekly post swap with GNMParents continues today with some thoughts from editor Stu Mark on living green the lazy way. Be sure to check out Jennifer Lance's post at…
