Green growth
Schumpeter
THE enrichment of previously poor countries is the most inspiring development of our time. It is also worrying. The environment is already under strain.
Schumpeter
THE enrichment of previously poor countries is the most inspiring development of our time. It is also worrying. The environment is already under strain.
German academics have used the mathematics behind the strategic behaviour of countries to propose a way though the myriad impasses
Reports focus on the possibility a record minimum for Arctic sea ice in September, but a major loss during the early summer months is climatologically more important
Jae So
Some poor, politically stable countries have made great strides in access to water supply and sanitation. Water experts meeting in Stockholm called for further improvements
Olivier De Schutter, Gaëtan Vanloqueren
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein
A farmer gathers wheat in Bamiyan, Afghanistan.
In Brief:
Bill Scanlon
Providing clean, renewable energy to the 1.4 billion people who are living without electricity is the No. 1 priority of the United Nations, the secretary general of the U.N. said during a visit Aug. 24 to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Sarah Marsh
On World humanitarian day we look at countries who give aid and those that are in need
World humanitarian day celebrates people who help others - the aid workers who risk their lives to support people in great need.
Uri Friedman
Several Pakistani news outlets today are dissecting a troubling finding from the U.N.
Jonathan Amos
Scientists have produced what they say is the first complete map of how the ice moves across Antarctica.