Yale Environment 360

Fred Pearce

Major dam and irrigation projects are drying up the wetlands that sustain life in the arid Sahel region of Africa. The result has been a wave of environmental refugees, as thousands of people flee, many on boats to Europe.

The Daily Star

Marlowe Hood | Agence France Presse

Summary: Here is a "Plan B" menu of geoengineering solutions that can be broken down into two categories: dimming the sun, which remains highly controversial, and capturing carbon dioxide (CO2).

Clean Leap

ANTONY OCHIENG

The World Bank has entered into a tripartite arrangement together with the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the Sweden-based KTH Royal Institute of Technology, to launch an electricity access tool dubbed Electrification Pathways application and which countries can use to tr

The Guardian

Sophie Knight

The wetter the better. From sponge cities in China to ‘berms with benefits’ in New Jersey and floating container classrooms in the slums of Dhaka, we look at a range of projects that treat storm water as a resource rather than a hazard

by Sophie Knight

Green Biz

Richard Conniff

As recently as the 1980s, gray seals effectively were extinct on Cape Cod.

Voa News

Reuters

BANGKOK — Asia-Pacific — home to more than half the world's population and some of its fastest-growing economies — is a key battleground in the fight against pollution, one of the biggest threats to the planet and its people, the U.N. environment chief said.

Earth Institute|Columbia University

Earth Institute

Pines in Canada and Much of U.S. at Risk

Voa News

Reuters

NAIROBI, KENYA — 

Tanzania is set to launch the world's largest drone delivery network in January, with drones parachuting blood and medicines out of the skies to save lives.

Thomson Reuters Foundation News

Sophie Hares

The risk of diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation is creating a "silent emergency" - World Bank

By Sophie Hares

Thomson Reuters Foundation News

Megan Rowling

More than one-third of humanity is water-stressed every year or season, while drought crises are on the rise from California to Ethiopia

By Megan Rowling