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Climate change can seem like a remote problem for our leaders, but the fact is that it's already impacting real people, animals, and beloved places. These Faces of Climate Change are multiplying every day. Fortunately, other Faces of Climate Change are multiplying too: those stepping up to do something about it. Help us personalize the massive challenge climate change presents by taking a photo...
Continuing the tradition of 17 previous international Katoomba meetings, Katoomba XVIII: Forests, Water, and People will gather leading experts, practitioners, policymakers, and investors from China and abroad to advance nature-based solutions to the water crisis for an urbanizing world.Water resources are increasingly jeopardized by climate change, pollution, watershed degradation, and misuse,...
The Melaka International Youth Dialogue (MIYD) is an annual programme of the World Assembly of Youth (WAY) which brings together young people and youth leaders from around the world to discuss relevant youth issues. Since 2001, the MIYD has convened on a wide range of tropical issues. The MIYD has witnessed an escalating number of youth participants over the years willing to participate in the...
After the success of the photo contest of 2012, with over 3.000 photographers from almost 100 different countries participating, the Kiku. International Mountain Summit starts a new edition, launching the IMS Photo Contest 2013.The motto is Mountain.Lights&Shadows. Where there is light, there must be shadow. The IMS is looking for pictures where the mountain is the protagonist in the...
Interactive Digital Mosaic Shown at Thousands of Events Worldwide as Over One Billion People Take Action to Protect the EnvironmentToday is Earth Day, and over one billion people in approximately 192 countries are taking action to protect the environment. From London to Sao Paolo, Seoul to Babylon City, New Delhi to New York, Rome to Cairo, people everywhere are mobilizing their communities and...
Global Land Forum to Tackle Concepts of Territorial Governance for Achieving Food Securit. Conference to consider the impact of land acquisitions and land rights on family farming, indigenous peoples and the environmentNext week, over 200 leaders from civil society, international institutions and governments will come together in Antigua, Guatemala to explore the concept of territorial...
Over the weekend, 60 young, innovative software developers, engineers, designers, and technologists from Kathmandu came together at the NASA International Space Apps Challenge: Kathmandu Hackathon to develop solutions to pressing global problems. The winning team, Mars Odyssey, consisting of Binayak Dhakal, Roshan Bhatta, and Sakar Pudasaini, developed an easy-to-use tool to teach children...
Glaciers are kind of the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Studying them can give us a lot of information about long-term temperature trends, and most of what glaciologists are seeing is not very good. A recent study published in Cryosphere reports that glaciers in the tropical Andes, in South-America, are shrinking at the fastest rate in the past 300 years, and that just since the...
Peru’s University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) has developed a billboard that extracts potable drinking water from out of the air, taking advantage of the area's high levels of atmospheric humidity.“Each generator captures the air humidity and from there it goes to a reverse osmosis system. Each tank stores about 5.28 gallons of water. These 5 generators purify the vital liquid and its...
“The magnitude of the global freshwater crisis and the risks associated with it, have been greatly underestimated. One billion people on earth are without reliable supplies of water and more than 2 billion people lack basic sanitation. Water is critical to the attainment of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals whose targets are set to expire in 2015.” (U.N Water Security paper August...