Earth Day 2020: Celebrating 50 years of fighting for our Planet
The view from my hotel window was something out of a science fiction tale. A shroud of thick haze hung over New Delhi, blanketing India’s capital city and its more than 21 million people, and close to 8 million children,
U.S. Action on Climate Change Will Continue
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he wants to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement was a mistake of historic proportions, not only because such a move is the antithesis of Sustainable Development Goal 13 — to “take urgent
A Perfect Match: Climate Action and Fair, Sustainable Development
In June of this year the former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres led a number of scientists to a call for deeper and faster action on climate change. The message she is sending is clear: if we want to avoid
Small-Scale Fisheries: Sustainable Coastal Development’s Urgent (and Unknown) Frontier
Last fall, Rare and photojournalist Jason Houston teamed up to create a photo series documenting the lives of people from the Caringo Island fishing community in the Philippines. We wanted to introduce American audiences to the fishing boats, markets, kitchens, and
HOW TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE AND REVERSE GLOBAL WARMING
Book Reviews: Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael Bloomberg (Author), Carl Pope (Author) Published by St Martin's Press (April 2017) 272 pages; Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul
Climate changes health, how can we adapt to protect it?
The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that climate change will cause 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050. Even accounting for sustained economic growth and health progress, 38,000 additional deaths are expected to be due to heat exposure
Climate Change: the Dutch Solution
Will the Netherlands disappear with Climate Change? Global warming will cause (probably) a third of a meter rise in sea level this century - a small rise perhaps, but it will threaten all the coasts around the world and some