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:: Nobel Laureates call for a global deal on climate change
The participants of the St James’s Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium agreed on a Memorandum, which urges “governments at all levels, as well as the scientific community, to join with business and civil society to seize hold of this historic opportunity to transform our carbon-intensive economies into sustainable and equitable systems.
:: National Geographic’s 2009 Greendex Survey of Consumers in 17 Countries finds increase in green Consumer behavior worldwide
In their second annual survey to measure and monitor consumer behaviors that have an impact on the environment, the National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have found an increase in environmentally friendly consumer behavior in 13 of the 14 countries that were surveyed in both 2008 and 2009.
:: Second biggest killer of under-fives being ignored
The international health agenda is failing to save the lives of millions of children by not responding appropriately to causes of child deaths, according to a new WaterAid report released.
:: Better water use could reduce future food crises
If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced, say researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Stockholm Environment Institute and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
:: Key Messages from the International Scientific Congress Climate Change
Following a successful International Scientific Congress Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions attended by more than 2,500 delegates from nearly 80 countries, preliminary messages from the findings were delivered by the Congress? Scientific Writing Team.
:: France's Nuclear Failures
Hazardous waste, illegitimate and dangerous new reactors and a diversion to the solutions to climate change - here's why France's picture of nuclear energy is just a 'great illusion'…
:: Human Rights Situation in Tibet: Annual Report 2008
The Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD) releases it 2008 Annual Report: Human Rights Situation in Tibet both in Tibetan and English language. The annual report focuses on three spheres of human rights violations in Tibet viz. Civil and Political Liberties, Right to Information and Religious freedom.
:: Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting
Glaciers high in the Himalayas are dwindling faster than anyone thought, putting nearly a billion people living in South Asia in peril of losing their water supply.
:: State of the World 2009: CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE
Heat and Hope: Time Running Out for Steep Emissions Cuts.
:: A China More Just
Gao Zhisheng "My Fight As a Rights Lawyer in the WorldÆs Largest Communist State"
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