Tag: Developing Nations - Page 5
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Amazon Road Workers Find Ancient Earth Carvings
Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery --
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Rich Nations Have Moral Duty to Compensate Bangladesh for Climate Change Damages
Two pieces coming out of the Bangladeshi media drive home a sometimes uncomfortable ethical imperative regarding climate change: Considering that radical inequalities between those nations most responsible for causing climate
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US $50 Million Pledge For Cleaner Cookstoves is Big Win For Women, Forests & Climate
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning
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80% of New Farmland in Tropics Carved From Forests Between 1980-2000 - Land the Size of Alaska Cleared
More than 80% of new farmland in the tropics cultivated over the last two decades of the 20th century was carved out of tropical forests, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of
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Afghanistan & Sub-Saharan Africa Have World's Greatest Food Security Risk
New analysis shows Afghanistan as well as several sub-Saharan African nations as having the greatest food security risk in the world, classified as 'extreme risk' (red in the image above). Furthermore, 36 of the 50 most at-risk
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Next Saturday We All Start Going Into Ecological Debt - Earth Overshoot Day 2010 is August 21st
Here is the most succinct symbol of how humanity is using resources beyond the capacity of the planet to sustainable regenerate them, and is only increasing to do so: Global Footprint Network tells us that August 21,
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Paying Ecuador To Not Drill The Yasuni: Extortion Or Sound Conservation Practice?
Stephen recently posted about how Ecuador Will Receive $3.6 Billion to Not Drill for Oil. This is a controversial subject that TreeHugger has been covering for a couple of years; many have suggested that it is akin to blackmail, with Ecuador extorting
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Humanitarian Design Isn't The New Imperialism, It's The New Compassion
A few weeks ago, Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm of controversy with his post in Fast Company: Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism? In it, he asked,
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Should The Galapagos Be Taken Off The Endangered Sites List?
Yesterday Brian wrote Galapagos Islands Moved Off Endangered Sites List, concluding:
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Learning From The Past, Designing For The Future: How They Air Conditioned In India 400 Years Ago
It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat. Caroline Howe of It's Getting Hot in Here explains: In Rajasthan,
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A Remote Amazon Oil Facility Tries to Go Green
The tiny town of Urucu, deep in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, could easily be seen as some sort of eco-paradise. Although it's surrounded by lush rainforest and is accessible only by boat or plane, Urucu features all the
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TreeHugger Reports From the Heart of the Amazon
Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there's no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it's nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green, inspiring the same
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650 Dogs Killed In Baghdad Every Day
The Associated Press is reporting that 58,000 of Baghdad's estimated 1.25 million stray dogs have been killed in the last three months. The effort is being seen as necessary in order to combat the
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Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than Growing Population: Fred Pearce
We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere, Fred Pearce argues that all the focus on population
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China No Longer a Developing Nation - Per Capita Carbon Emissions Higher Than France's
James Kanter over at the New York Times point out a very important statistical update: According to an assessment of per capita carbon emissions by the Netherlands Environmental Agency, China now emits on a
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Nepal Temporarily Halts All Logging - More Trees Cut in Last Few Months Than From 2000-2005
A quickie on a seriously shocking situation: As Mongabay and BBC News report, Nepal has announced a two month temporary ban on all logging in the
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Why This Planet Needs a Woman's Touch
When you're trying to protect an entire planet, it seems pretty silly to leave half of its human
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Japan Buys Off Developing Nations' Whaling Support: Whistleblower
Just as the International Whaling Commission is about to get together to try to break the impasse between non-whaling nations and the trio of scofflaws (most prominently Japan), another Japanese whistleblower has come forward.
