India: researchers to predict flood damage using satellite data
As India recovers from the devastating effects of cyclones Amphan and Nisarga, water researchers at HR Wallingford in the UK are developing a method...
Cinderella at the ball: Mainstreaming agroforestry for a resilient post-COVID India
Multi-functional agroforestry landscapes including diversified crops, trees, and animals are keys to social-ecological resilience. If current government reforms indeed succeed in the retention of a considerable fraction of the rural workforce, subsequent scaffoldings are capable of perpetual greening of India’s rural employment sector.
Meet SIRENA – new accessory brand that uses 100% vegan leather and contributes to...
Available to purchase this Christmas is a brand new range of cruelty-free vegan handbags that are crafted by local artisans in Italy using buttery soft 100% organic cactus leather.
The Durban climate deal: Winners & Losers
by Tim Gore, Oxfam
In the early hours of a December Sunday morning, governments meeting at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa,...
‘A third of world’s children suffer from lead poisoning’
Informal and substandard recycling of lead-acid batteries is a leading contributor to lead poisoning in children living in low and middle-income countries, the report says.
Peru Does Not Follow Its Own Environmental Laws : Seifert
By Diego Cupolo
Today, as Cajamarca remains one of the poorest regions in Peru even after 20 years of gold extraction, Seifert poses the question: If Europe can modernize its mining techniques and limit environmental degradation, why can’t Peru? “When the strategy and tactics are unclear, little can be achieved by social movements. Newmont defends private investment and the people defend their water. Up until now, there has been no bridge of understanding between the two.”The Bio Village: Upscaling Biodiversity in Bangladesh
By TITHE FARHANA
Bangladesh has already achieved 40 years of independence and the development of the agricultural sector has been tremendous. It has been...
Demand for electric car batteries’ raw materials set to rise: UNCTAD report
The demand for raw materials used to manufacture rechargeable batteries will grow rapidly as the importance of oil as a source of energy recedes
From MDGs to Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Reflecting on Environmental Sustainability Goal
By Eric Ngang
A renewed thinking about availability of water for future generations using a sustainability thinking that focuses on both humans and natural systems is crucial at the moment when the world is currently reflecting on development goals that shall serve as signpost, guiding development post 2015.
Oil and Oxygen: Are We Suffocating the People of Peru?
By Victoria Greaves
We, in the international community, want to believe that development is possible and human rights can be respected, but we must ask ourselves: whose interests do we actually represent? And hearing from local people in the developing world reveals that even positive movements, like environmentalism, can have devastating results.