Cities and Sustainable Development

Many of the world’s largest cities, built on seacoasts and rivers, face the threat of rising sea levels and intensifying storms. So the new global development agenda ...

Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation donates $3 Million to Tiger conservation

On the third anniversary of the historic Global Tiger Summit the Leonardo ...

Singapore's first carbon neutral event convenes global sustainability leaders

The forum, in its second year, is the first of its kind for a large-scale event in Singapore. Significant efforts were made to reduce resource consumption at the event, and...

Corporates cause two third of global warming emissions

The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between them produced nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gas emissions generated...

Facing Reality: Climate Change

Delegates at the international climate talks in Warsaw, which end Friday, lamented Japan?s move as a blow to worldwide efforts to slow global warming. In the Philippines, w...

A New Vision for News Media

Imagine a world where stories published by the media were measured by their impact and outcome on their audiences versus just merely eyeballs and ratings.

The Media...

Small Farmers & Climate Change

“Farmers have been adapting for centuries and so there is a lot they can already do,” wrote Vincent Vadez, principal scientist with the International Crops Rese...

India skips mention of natural disasters at climate meet

The world is looking at India for its response to what had happened recently in Odisha and Uttarakhand due to natural disasters which were results of climatic extremes.

India among the world’s 83 countries which do not meet the minimum healthcare workers requirement.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report, recently released in Brazil, says that nearly 83 per cent of physicians in India are males.

The report, titled “A Un...