UNEARTH News, New York -- Over the next decade, the technological and environmental choices that Africa makes will determine its ability to thrive as a region said the economist and journalist Jonathan Ledgard during an informal talk on 24 April.Speaking at Columbia’s Future Africa: Sharks, Spies, and Scie more ...

Most countries in the developing world have more than ample resources available to harness renewable energy, but lack the governmental, institutional, and structural support needed to create efficient and lucrative energy programs.  These obstacles, however, can be overcome with the proper market strategie more ...

(UNITED NATIONS, UNEARTH News) The Sundarbans is the largest mangrove forest in the world, a place of stunning biodiversity, including the sole natural habitat of the endangered Royal Bengal Tiger. But climate change threatens both the forest and the millions of Bangladeshis who depend on this vast network more ...

(Ramgarh, India - UNEARTH News) The village of Ramgarh lies just south of the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, India. No bigger than a handful of local farms, most of Ramgarh’s inhabitants have never heard the phrase "climate change" and they are certainly not the ones responsible for it. Yet crops here have dwin more ...

Clean cook stoves are helping to decrease the use of fuel wood and promote the sustainability of local resources. These stoves use 50 to 70 percent less fuel, usually in the form of wood or charcoal, the primary sources of energy for many impoverished people in the world. more ...

The global water crisis has come to a point where more people have mobile phones than access to a toilet. "Water is a social problem," said András Szöllösi-Nagy, Rector of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization – Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE) at a media briefing a more ...