Issues & Trends

2015-08-16	As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope farms will survive VEDARANYAM, India (AP) — On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds.
2012-10-18	British engineers create petrol from air and water LONDON (Reuters) - A small British company has developed a way to create petrol from air and water, technology it hopes may one day contribute to large-scale production of green fuels. Engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) in Teeside, northern England, say they have produced 5 liters of synthetic petrol over a period of three months.
2014-09-17	UN population growth data is bad news for climate - Climate News Network Sophisticated new analysis indicates an 80% probability that the planet's population will continue to rise this century, with serious implications for food security, political stability - and climate change. LONDON, 19 September, 2014 - The demographers may have got it wrong.
2017-07-18	Global Futures Report - REN21
2017-07-17	This Year’s Top 10 Emerging Technologies, According to the World Economic Forum Recently, the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and Global Future Councils, teamed up with the board of directors of Scientific American, to determine the top 10 breakout technologies for this year.
2017-03-07	Pittsburgh - 100 Resilient Cities Pittsburgh’s Resilience Journey The city of Pittsburgh released its Resilience Strategy on March 8, 2017. Explore the strategy here. Pittsburgh’s Resilience Story
2015-05-26	UN: Fewer hungry people in the world Rome - The number of hungry people around the world has dropped to 795 million from over a billion a quarter-century ago despite natural disasters, ongoing conflicts and poverty, the three U.N. food agencies said Wednesday.
2015-03-01	The world is connected, but some still wait for a plug
2014-08-31	World water forum urges cooperation between energy, water communities STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Global leaders in the 24th annual World Water Week in Stockholm urged the energy and water communities to work together to meet the challenge of providing clean drinking water and energy for a growing world population.
2014-02-03	HEALTH: Study projects net increase in range and risk for malaria from climate change, though human factors still dominate As the climate changes, some parts of the world will become more hospitable to malaria, putting more people at risk, but large uncertainties still loom over the models making these forecasts, according to a new study.