Issues & Trends
| How to Police Geoengineering? U.S. sets record with a dozen billion-dollar weather disasters in one year |
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| IEA Says Solar May Provide a Third of Global Energy by 2060 Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Solar technologies such as photovoltaic panels, water heaters and power stations built with mirrors could provide a third of the world’s energy by 2060 if politicians commit to limiting climate change, the International Energy Agency said. |
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| NOAA: Autumn and November both warmer than average in the United States U.S. sets record with a dozen billion-dollar weather disasters in one year |
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| Saudi Arabia to exploit solar energy for desalination plants JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia intends to depend heavily on solar energy to operate desalination plants instead of oil and gas as part of its efforts to make use of alternative and renewable energy sources. |
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| UN: farmers must produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed population A quarter of farmland is highly degraded, according to the first report into the state of the world's land resources |
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| Water shortages in Dead Sea could increase tensions in Middle East Scientists studying ancient mud samples taken from the bed of the Dead Sea separating Israel and Jordan have warned that the fragile political situation in the Middle East will be made worse by the intense water shortages their study is predicting. |
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| The charitable face of data use A new group of innovative non-governmental organisations are springing up in the wake of disasters around the world, driven by complex data analysis and backed by telecom brands |
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| Map study finds vivax malaria has firm grip in Asia (Reuters) - Progress is being made in the fight against the most common form of malaria in Africa, but a long-lasting type of the mosquito-borne parasitic disease has a tight grip on swathes of South Asia and parts of Latin America, scientists said Monday. |
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| South Asian power transmission link in the works Islamabad(SANA)Electricity trading with Pakistan is part of a larger plan of a South Asian transmission link, which will help countries in the sub-continent harness energy potential of the region. |
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| AFRICA: Sub-Saharan sanitation targets “two centuries away” LONDON, 18 November 2011 (IRIN) - It will take two centuries for sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, according to NGO WaterAid, which calls on national leaders to c |