In the science-fiction film The Man Who Fell to Earth, David Bowie famously portrayed an alien from a planet running out of water. He left. However, we — on planet earth — cannot. Ironically, it was ...

Illegal wildlife trade worth up to $213 billion dollars a year is funding organized crime, including global terror groups and militias, according to a report by the ...

Of late, opportunities to see and hear the term ‘satoumi’ are on the rise, thanks to international conferences on the topic. Satoumi is defined as marine and coastal landscapes that have been formed ...

The recent flood of reports, films and events have brought new currency to the issue of climate change. The Stern Review (pdf), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Assessment Review 4 ...

With a population of five million crammed on a landmass of just 715 square kilometres, the tiny republic of Singapore has been forced to expand upwards, building high-rise residential complexes to ...

Janine Kandel is the Information and Communications Officer at the United Nations University Vice-Rectorate in Europe.

There are approximately 100,000 homeless people living in India’s capital and half of them are children. They set up makeshift tents, sleep in the open air, under bridges, on mattresses, rudimentary ...

With the topic of peak global oil production moving more into the mainstream, you have perhaps heard of the Canadian oil sands. There, huge tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a ...

A famous anecdote describes a scheme the British Colonial Government implemented in India in an attempt to control the population of venomous cobras that were plaguing the citizens of Delhi that ...

It is not every day that private, for-profit companies pursue social inclusion of waste pickers in their supply chain. But the plastic recycling industry in Mexico is demonstrating that working with ...

Sri Lanka has fared well in recent years by promoting health and education opportunities for women. Yet the country still fails to translate these achievements into female economic participation. The ...

In autumn 2013, a silent invader nudged its way to the Swedish nuclear plant Oskarhamn. It wasn’t an earthquake or a terrorist attack that crippled the reactor, rather it was a jellyfish bloom. The ...