National Geographic’s April 2008 issue reports on last year’s summer melt in the Artic Ocean (see also Andrew Revkin’s excellent article in the NYT in October 2007).  According to the piece, by September, the ice covered had declined from its previous low, in 2005, by an area larger than Texas and California combined.  The September [...]

This post is a guest blog by our friend Maria Witz - to learn more about her work, visit the Institute for Gender and the Environment.
……we dare not say… gender… because to say gender is to cause a few readers to turn away and to say “no, not another women’s issue….”
Similarly, people react to the [...]

Are the developed countries ready for the new wave of immigrants? The western world has experience many migrations…. the migration due to the Irish Potato Famine, the millions of political migrants fleeing Soviet-impossed communism to the west, the hundreds of thousands who escaped the Balkan Wars and the millions of economic migrants seeking a [...]

Reuters posted an interesting article today discussing the refugees and attendant problems that will result from global climate change. This is a subject that has been gaining increasing attention, and it is worth noting as it becomes more prevalent in media discussions. What is especially refreshing about this particular article is that it focuses on [...]

 Amory Lovins, Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute gave a great lecture yesterday in Washington DC, in part based on his work with an Energy Task Force of the Defense Science Board, an institution devoted to transforming the nation’s armed forces to meet the demands being placed on them by a changing [...]

 Two new studies published last week have recently come out and suggested that there must be zero carbon output in global emissions by 2050 to prevent the world from any further warming.  Staff writer Juliet Eilperin summarized the findings of these studies today in a front-page article in the Washington Post. 
H. Damon Matthews of Concordia [...]

In the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa region, water management is a serious challenge due to its scarcity.  Countries are forced to cooperate over water since the costs are too greater to do otherwise.  Potential water conflicts exist or loom in existing trouble spots, such as between Iraq, Turkey, and Syria, between Israel, [...]