Climate

‘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 Year of Water Cooperation Amid

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Preserve the services of mangroves — Earth’s invaluable coastal forests, experts urge

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada 14 Nov 2012 Loss of mangroves to fish farms, other development, a poor economic trade-off

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Former world leaders call on UN Security Council to recognize water as a top concern

United Nations University, Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Canada InterAction Council, Tokyo Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, Canada 10-Sep-2012 World confronts serious water crisis,

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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 lets public follow tagged animals

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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 early days of auto industry

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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 chair With an eye on

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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), Texel, Netherlands) 13 September 2011

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Ongoing global biodiversity loss unstoppable with protected areas alone: Study

United Nations University – Institute for Water, Environment and Health, Hamilton, Canada 28 Jul 11 Continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and

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Global investments in green energy up nearly a third to $211 billion

United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi / Paris 07 Jul 11 China, developing countries are now biggest investors in large-scale renewables while Germany surges ahead on rooftop solar

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Prodigal plankton species makes first known migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole

Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and             Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 26 Jun 11

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Teeming with life, Pacific’s California current likened to Africa’s Serengeti Plain

Census of Marine Life, Washington DC / Tagging of Pacific Palagics project, Pacific Grove, CA 22 June 2011 Decade of electronic tagging, tracking of 23 top

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Founded on science, world cooperation in Antarctica a model for meeting climate, other challenges

Office of the Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, Malaysia and Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT) 16 Jun 11 The success of world co-operation based on

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Higher density means world forests are capturing more carbon

Rockefeller University, New York / University of Helsinki 06 Jun 11 Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density, US and European

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How to supply sustainable electricity to world’s billions of ‘energy poor’ people

Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, Montreal 02 Jun 11 UN Summit to launch 2012 as ‘International Year of Sustainable Energy for All’ New York – How can the

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Void in leadership on world water crisis cited by 20 former heads of government

InterAction Council, Tokyo 31 May 2001 Clinton, Fox, Zedillo, Chretien, Brundtland among 20 former leaders urging greater effort to avert looming water crisis Former heads

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Icy meltwater pooling in Arctic Ocean: A wild card in climate change scenarios

Project CLAMER (Flanders Marine Institute, (VLIZ) Oostende, Belgium, and             Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, Netherlands) 5-Apr-2011 Scientists

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Canada’s role grows amid looming world water shortages in some places, more flooding in others

Canadian Water NetworkWaterloo, Ontario27-Feb-2011 $1 trillion global water market forecast for 2020; Global freshwater demand expected to exceed supply by 40 percent by 2030 Famed

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Africa Can Feed Itself in a Generation

Harvard Kennedy School Cambridge,MA,USA 2-Dec-2010 Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation. The

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First Census Shows Life in Planet Ocean is Richer, More Connected, More Altered than Expected

Census of Marine Life Washington DC, USA 4-Oct-2010 Culminating a 10-year exploration, 2,700 scientists from 80 nations report first Census of Marine Life, revealing what,

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Census of Marine Life publishes historic roll call of species in 25 key world areas

Census of Marine Life Washington, DC 2-Aug-2010 Representing the most comprehensive and authoritative answer yet to one of humanity’s most ancient questions — “what lives

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Reports detail global investment and other trends in green energy

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Division of Technology Industry and Economics Paris 15-Jul-2010 In 2009, for the second year in a row, both the US

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Explorers Inventory Hard-to-See Sea Life: Tiny but Mighty Microbes, Plankton, Larvae, Burrowers — Keys to Earth’s Food and Respiratory Systems

Census of Marine Life Washington DC 18-Apr-2010 Microbial mat the size of Greece found on oxygen-starved South American seafloor; Scientists puzzle out Neptune’s riotous diversity

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