Photographer Peter McBride traveled along the Colorado River from its source high in the Rocky Mountains to its historic mouth at the Sea of Cortez. In this Yale Environment 360 video, he follows the natural course of the Colorado by raft, on foot, and overhead in a small plane, telling the story of a river […]
Stunning images from high in the Himalayas – showing the extent by which many glaciers have shrunk in the past 80 years or so – have gone on display at the Royal Geographical Society in central London. Between 2007 and 2010, David Breashears retraced the steps of early photographic pioneers such as Major E O […]
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 4 (Bernama) – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has warned that rising sea levels could put coastal cities from Kolkata to Miami at “serious” risk in the years to come. In his message on the occasion of ‘World Habitat Day’, Ban said rising sea levels are an urgent concern given that 60 million […]
By Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York 22 September 2011 Some of the most dramatic impacts of climate change will be felt by the millions of people who will be forced to leave their homes: Climate refugees will flee island nations rendered inhospitable by rising sea levels, arid regions increasingly wracked by drought, and wet, low-lying […]
By Reem Shamseddine and Barbara Lewis; Editing by Daniel Fineren and Sonya Hepinstall7 September 2011 KHOBAR/LONDON (Reuters) – Long before it understood the value of oil, the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia knew the worth of water. But the leading oil exporter’s water challenges are growing as energy-intensive desalination erodes oil revenues while peak water […]
By BRIAN M. CARNEY 3 SEPTEMBER 2011 As befits the chairman of the world’s largest food-production company, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is counting calories. But it’s not his diet that the chairman and former CEO of Nestlé is worried about. It’s all the food that the U.S. and Europe are converting into fuel while the world’s poor […]
By Jane Sutton; Editing by Cynthia Osterman17 August 2011 MIAMI (Reuters) – The United States has already tied its yearly record for billion-dollar weather disasters and the cumulative tab from floods, tornadoes and heat waves has hit $35 billion, the National Weather Service said on Wednesday. And it’s only August, with the bulk of the […]
CHICAGO, August 11 (AP) – Two former water department officials have been indicted in an investigation of a Chicago suburb that for decades drew drinking water from a tainted well, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. Frank Scaccia and Theresa Neubauer face multiple counts of lying to regulators over 20 years about piping in the polluted water […]
By Scott Thill8 August 2011 Mass extinction is finally fighting its way back into the news cycle, thanks to recent scary reports on climate change from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean, the United Nations Environment Program and the July issue of Science. But University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward has been […]
August 11 (The Daily) – The Daily has obtained from prosecutors a range of evidence from the trial of Warren Jeffs, including thousands of pages of documents and photos seized from his compound during a 2008 raid by Texas Rangers. A court reporter provided eight audio recordings in the case: six that were played during […]
