Delivering food security to an additional one billion people in Africa will become ever more challenging over the next four decades unless more intelligent management of natural resources and emerging opportunities are brought to bear.
In addressing this and other similar crises, the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development provided some new and sobering costs on how [...]
Active development and deployment of businesses and technologies geared towards sustainable development and climate change practices are becoming more vital to the global economy and individual state of living.
Mobilizing and re-focusing the global economy towards investments in clean technologies and ‘natural’ infrastructure such as forests and soils is the best bet for real growth, combating [...]
Extreme weather events in the Arctic will become more common as the winter ice cover retreats, with potentially severe consequences for human activity, says the Sweden-based Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR).
One of the most visible signs of climate change is the dramatically reduced ice cover in the Arctic. The retreat of the sea ice [...]
Plant and forestry waste and dedicated energy crops could sustainably replace nearly a third of gasoline use by the year 2030, according to an in-depth study by Sandia National Laboratories and General Motors Corporation called “The 90 Billion Gallon Study.”
Researchers assessed the feasibility, implications, limitations, and enablers of annually producing 90 billion gallons of ethanol [...]
Human-induced environmental change causes significant increases in emerging infectious diseases in both wildlife and human population, says Wildlife Trust conservation scientist Dr. Alonso Aguirre as published in the New York Academy of Sciences journal.
The driving factors of environmental change include deforestation, urban sprawl, transportation infrastructures, climate change, and the control of water resources for dams, [...]
Women are more likely than men to be killed by natural disasters such as cyclones, hurricanes, floods and heat waves,according to research by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Such disasters are on the rise as a result of climate change. A sample of 141 countries from 1981 to 2002 found such disasters [...]
The melting of the polar ice caps has been capturing the attention of scientists and climatologists – in fact, people from all walks of life around the world – the past few years due to the dramatic changes taking place within them. The phenomenon affecting both ends of the Earth is considered an unquestionable harbinger [...]
The world’s farmers must quickly switch to more sustainable and productive farming systems to grow the food needed by a swelling world population and respond to climate change,says the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
“The world has no alternative to pursuing Sustainable Crop Production Intensification to meet the growing food and feed [...]
We may very well not be alone in our galaxy. While most people concieve that there is life elsewhere in the universe, it is almost surreal to know that not only is it true but that life may not be that far from Earth, astronmically speaking.
A little more than 20.5 light years away exists a planet that [...]
Efforts to harness the energy potential of Earth’s ocean winds could soon gain an important new tool: global satellite maps from NASA. Scientists have been creating maps using nearly a decade of data from NASA’s QuikSCAT satellite that reveal ocean areas where winds could produce wind energy.
New technologies will permit rapid decarbonization of the world energy economy in the next two decades, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute. These new energy sources will make it possible to retire hundreds of coal-fired power plants that now provide 40 percent of the world’s power by 2030, eliminating up to one-third [...]
Crops in Space? Absolutely… especially if people are to travel for months and years to other worlds and systems. It would be impossible, for instance, to send along enough food and water for a team of space explorers on a mission to Mars. The reality is food and water production over a full life cycle [...]
