Issues & Trends
| World Bank launches global coalition for marine protection Global Partnership for Oceans, comprising governments, NGOs, scientists and businesses, is a boost for overfished, polluted and warming oceans |
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| Gisele Bündchen Visits Slum in Kenya Model and advocate Gisele Bündchen was in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday drawing attention to a lack of electricity for much of the world’s population and advocated for a United Nations effort to get more investment to resolve the problem. |
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| When cooking can be deadly Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (CNN) -- An estimated 3 billion people -- nearly half the world's population -- still use an open fire as their primary source of energy for cooking and heating. But there's a problem: the smoke. |
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| What Companies Can Learn From Cities on Climate Change How might urban climate change affect business? What can business -- and cities -- do about it? And how might each help the other prepare for a potential threat to what's clearly a mutually beneficial relationship? |
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| Powering Sustainable Energy for All As a child growing up during the Korean War, I studied by candlelight. Electric conveniences such as refrigerators and fans were largely unknown. Yet within my lifetime, that reality changed utterly. Easy access to energy opened abundant new possibilities for my family and my nation. |
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| Electronic Atlas Maps U.S. Renewable Energy Resources A new geospatial application developed by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) allows users to easily and accurately map potential renewable energy resources in the United States. |
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| Fish production falls due to ocean surface heating A report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) indicates that ocean surface water warming limits the upward movement of nutrients and this can cause a decrease in fish production. The study adds that if the volume of the catch is reduced, the daily life of the population would also be affected. |
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| Environment world review of the year: '2011 rewrote the record books' The ecologically tumultuous year saw record greenhouse gas emissions, melting Arctic sea ice, natural disasters and extreme weather – and the world's second worst nuclear disaster |
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| Can Bolivia become a green energy superpower? Bolivia has vast reserves of lithium, seen as the green energy fuel of the future, which it wants to exploit on its own. But the lithium is locked underneath a 10,000 sq km salt flat |
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| Could Asia have its own supergrid? By 2050, Asia could be connected by a massive energy and information architecture, believes Stewart Taggart. |