Managing shared waters: Treasury of papers helps capture 20 years of lessons
United Nations University Institute for Water Environment and Health, Canada Global Environmental Facility IW:LEARN, Slovakia 25 July 2013 Sharing Nile’s vital […]
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Renewable energy: World invests $244 billion in 2012; shift to developing countries underway
UN Environment Programme / REN21 12-Jun-2013 Installed capacity continues to grow as solar prices drop 30-40 percent New wind installations
Potentially ‘catastrophic’ changes underway in Canada’s northern Mackenzie River Basin
Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy, University of California Berkeley 10-Jun-2013 Biodiversity in watershed covering roughly 20% of Canada compared
Even farm animal diversity is declining as accelerating species loss threatens humanity
Chair IPBES / Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Malaysia / Malaysian Industry‑Government Group for High Technology 27-May-2013 Founding Chair of
Shifting global water systems: markers of a new geological epoch, “The Anthropocene”
Global Water System Project, Bonn 19-May-2013 Bonn Declaration issued by ‘Water in the Anthropocene’ science conference: A majority on Earth
As Canada takes Arctic Council helm, experts stress north’s vulnerability to spills, emergencies
Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation, Toronto / Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Programme 13-May-2013 International experts recommend key focus areas for next 2
‘Water Security’: Experts propose a UN definition on which much depends
United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH, Hamilton, Canada) / UN-Water 22-Mar-2013, World Water Day / International
Deep Carbon: Quest underway to discover its quantity, movements, origins and forms in Earth
Deep Carbon Observatory, Carnegie Institution of Washington DC 4-Mar-2013 Probing the secrets of volcanoes and diamonds, sources of gas and oil,
‘Amazon of the North’: Major world interests at stake in Canada’s vast Mackenzie River Basin
Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Toronto 3 September, 2012 Watershed covers roughly 20 percent of Canada, including oil sands; The
Sea-surfing ‘wave glider’ robot deployed to help track white sharks in the Pacific
Block Lab, Stanford University, Monterey Bay, CA, USA 16-Aug-2012 New high-tech ocean observers debut above ‘The Blue Serengeti’; ‘Shark Net’ app
E-waste: Annual gold, silver ‘deposits’ in new high-tech goods worth $21 billion; less than 15% recovered
6-Jul-2012 United Nations University ‘Urban mining’ deposits are 40 to 60 times richer than mined ore, experts tell 1st GeSI
Global investment in renewable energy powers to record $257B
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi and REN21, Paris Installations up but manufacturer overcapacity drives down margins; Renewable energy sector maturation recalls
Beyond GDP: Experts preview ‘Inclusive Wealth’ index at Planet under Pressure conference
Earth System Science Partnership, Paris 28-Mar-2012 Brazil and India pay a high price for rapid economic growth, according to experts
Cities forecast to expand by area equal to France, Germany and Spain combined in less than 20 years
Earth System Science Partnership, Paris 27-Mar-2012 Unless development patterns change, by 2030 humanity’s urban footprint will occupy an additional 1.5
State of the Planet: Scientists describe humanity’s global impact as ‘The Great Acceleration’ and offer ominous outlook: An uncertain future on a much hotter world
Earth System Science Partnership, Paris 26-Mar-2012 Time is running out to minimize the risk of setting in motion irreversible and
Create effective new global environmental agency, ministers urged
Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Malaysia / Malaysian Industry‑Government Group for High Technology, Kuala Lumpur 21-Feb-2012
Study quantifies impact of unsafe water and poor sanitation on child and maternal mortality
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 14-Feb-2012 The impact of unsafe water and sanitation on
Eyeing resources, India, China, Brazil, Japan, other countries want a voice on Arctic Council
Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Toronto 15-Jan-2012 International experts to recommend key issues as Canada prepares to assume Arctic Council
Quack medicines, insect immigrants, and what eats what among secrets revealed by DNA barcodes
Consortium for the Barcode of Life, Smithsonian Institution 27-Nov-2011 Global ‘barcode blitz’ accelerates; 450 experts converge on Adelaide Nov. 28-Dec.
Environmental troubles growing in Mid-East Gulf region due to rapid coastal development
United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 16-Nov-2011 Sustainable coastal management, regional coordination and long-term, holistic
Major threats foreseen due to Europe’s changing marine environments
Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ),
How many species on Earth? 8.7 million
Census of Marine Life, Washington DC 23 Aug 2011 Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million).