World Can Achieve Climate Goals, With All 10 Billion People Prospering
Rona Fried
Peak Meat Production Strains Land and Water Resources | Vital Signs Online
Michael Renner
Global meat production rose to an estimated 308.5 million tons in 2013, an increase of 1.4 percent over 2012.1 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) forecasts additional growth of 1.1 percent in 2014 to 311.8 million tons.2 Production is thus reaching new peaks, despite droug
U.N. Disaster Chief Warns of More Natural Catastrophes to Come
NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
GENEVA — Thailand’s Khao Lak coast 10 years ago was a wasteland of palm beaches littered with the detritus of destroyed hotels and corpses blackened by the tropical sun.
UN: Up to $300 billion lost annually in natural disasters
UNITED NATIONS — The global economic losses from natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, droughts and cyclones and have continued rising to reach an average of $250 billion to $300 billion annually, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
Electric car boom fuels interest in Bolivia’s fragile salt flats
www.theguardian.com - Max Opray
Demand for the metal used in electric car batteries has surged. But extraction could threaten the fragile ecosystem of the world’s largest salt flat.
Rebuilding Healthy Soil for a Changing Climate
http://blogs.worldwatch.org - Wanqing Zhou
To celebrate the recent World Food Day (October 16), learn how food production can be transformed from a greenhouse gas emitter to a carbon sink by improving soil biology.
Epic Middle East Heat Wave Is Being Compared to Weapon of Mass Destruction
<a href="http://www.ecowatch.com">http://www.ecowatch.com</a> - Climate Nexus
Global extraction of primary materials to triple by 2050 - UNEP
Nina Chestney
The amount of primary materials extracted from the earth will almost triple by the middle of this century if action is not taken, as emerging economies develop and consume more, a U.N.-backed report said on Wednesday. The use of fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metallic minerals has accelerated