Issues & Trends

2017-07-31	Scientific consensus: Earth's climate is warming Temperature data from four international science institutions. All show rapid warming in the past few decades and that the last decade has been the warmest on record.
2017-03-17	German teenager promotes planting one trillion trees Felix Finkbeiner was 13 years old when he spoke before the United Nations General Assembly, urging them to take action and plant more trees. “We children know adults know the challenges and they know the solution,” he said. “We don’t know why there is so little action.”
2017-07-30	Earth to warm 2 degrees Celsius by the end of this century, studies say (CNN)By the end of the century, the global temperature is likely to rise more than 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. This rise in temperature is the ominous conclusion reached by two different studies using entirely different methods published in the journal Nature Climate Change on Monday.
2017-06-14	The Global Peace Index - data visualisation – Vision of Humanity Following last week’s launch of the Global Peace Index report, the media have been busy producing visualisations based on the Global Peace Index data. The following are a selection of innovative presentations from the World Economic Forum, Statista, EPLO and the Indy100. World Economic Forum
2012-09-09	Could wind power ever meet the world’s energy needs? At the moment, wind power supplies about 4.1 percent of electric power in the United States. Still a bit player. Yet there's a whole lot of untapped wind left in the world. Wind whipping through the Great Plains. Wind gusting off the shores. Wind circulating high up in the sky.
2017-07-30	7 Strategies for Reducing Water Waste in the Food System March 22, 2013 is the 20th anniversary of World Water Day. In honor of this important anniversary, this week we are highlighting 7 Strategies for Reducing Water Waste. Please visit the Food Tank website each day over the next week for posts focused on innovations around water.
2016-11-30	Deforestation in the Amazon on the rise again São Paulo, 30 November 2016 - Amazon deforestation increased 29 percent from the numbers released for last year, according to data released by the Brazilian government yesterday.
2017-04-01	Visualizing nuclear radiation Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents in Japan. The creation of total radioactivity maps is essential for thorough cleanup, but the most common methods, according to Kyoto University's Toru Tanimori, do not 'see' enough ground-level radiation.
2015-08-09	World Bank: clean energy is the solution to poverty, not coal It is the development conundrum of our era. Extremely poor people cannot lift themselves out of poverty without access to reliable energy. More than a billion people live without power today, denying them opportunities as wide-ranging as running a business, providing light for their children to study, or even cooking meals with ease.
2014-08-04	World Bank to inject $5 billion into Power Africa Initiative The Word Bank has announced a $5 billion (Sh435 billion) support package for the US-led Power Africa Initiative in six countries, including Kenya.