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For the past year, President Bharrat
Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his
nation's forests under international supervision if other countries
paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.
The campaign received major support
last week when ...
Environment
Guyana
Norway
Climate Change
Washington, D.C.- Worldwatch Institute announced today the launch of Vital Signs Online , an interactive, subscription-based tool designed to provide busy decision makers and researchers with data-driven analysis on the most important sustainability trends that are shaping our future. The ...
Environment
The United States, Canada, and Mexico
agreed this week to work together to protect wilderness areas across
North America.
The cooperation agreement establishes
an intergovernmental committee to exchange research and approaches
that address challenges such as climate change, fire control, ...
Environment
Homeland Security
Disastrous droughts crippled Niger,
Burkina Faso, and Mali in the early 1970s and more severely in the
early 1980s. More than 100,000 people died.
"The soil dried up. Everything dried
up. All the trees died," said Yacouba Savadogo, a sorghum and
millet farmer from the village of Gourma in ...
Environment
Green Grid
Niger
Washington, D.C.- Changes to the Earth's land cover, climate, and ecosystems are endangering the health of hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of people worldwide and now represent the greatest public health challenge of the 21st century. The scale of these global changes is rapidly ...