Private Sector Called Upon to Disrupt “Business-As-Usual” at COP 23
“I am asking you to misbehave…” This was UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ plea to business during his opening of the High-Level...
Why climate change is creating a new generation of child brides
It was the flood that ensured that Ntonya Sande’s first year as a teenager would also be the first year of her married life. Up to the...
Ethiopia’s waste-to-energy plant is a first in Africa
For half a century, the Koshe dump site has been the only landfill in Addis Ababa. As the city has expanded, the landfill – which used to...
Jane Goodall Calls for Climate Change Action to Save Planet at Global Citizen Festival
In front of 60,000 global citizens, Dr. Jane Goodall spoke chimpanzee on the Global Citizen Festival stage to roaring cheers earlier this...
Venezuela's last glacier is about to disappear
Venezuela used to have five glaciers. Today, only one remains. The last glacier in Venezuela, the Humboldt glacier, is about to...
Kadvi Hawa movie review: The dark, haunting tale of climate change, farmer suicides
Darkly humorous and searing, Kadvi Hawa is a film that will stay with you. The burden of loan on farmers, the shockingly high rate of...
Congo basin’s peaty swamps are new front in climate change battle
Stumbling on submerged roots, attacked by bees and wading waist-deep through leech-infested water, the three researchers and their Pygmy...
Breathless in Delhi: a taste of environmental Armageddon
It was 2am on Sunday in Delhi and a friend and I were travelling in a rickshaw, heading home from a party. It was a hellscape. The...
Solid approach to waste: how 5 cities are beating pollution
When ministers, business chiefs and civil society leaders gather at the UN Environment Assembly in December, trash talk will be on the...
Why the nights are getting brighter – but not in a good way
The world’s nights are getting alarmingly brighter – bad news for all sorts of creatures, humans included – as light pollution encroaches...