Sustainable urbanization is so intimately tied to food waste that you can't talk about one without the other. If we don't get it right, we might miss the most sustainable opportunity to feed our growing planet.
Obama entered office on a peace platform, advocating a draw down on troops in the Middle East and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Later actions emphasized this same message, such as his efforts to reopen ties with Cuba.
After promising to slow the rise of the oceans in 2008, president Barack Obama has finally cemented his climate legacy.
A similarly unpleasant choice now looms before the American electorate--between Donald Trump, the xenophobic, nationalist demagogue, on one side, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the unrepentant militarist, Wall Street shill, and unindicted emailer, on the other.
As the number and scale of natural disasters around the globe increase, the connection between World Wildlife Fund's environmental work, disasters and humanitarian action has never been more urgent.
As the G20 Summit meets in Hangzhou this week, we, mayors of the major cities within the G20, call on our national leaders to work with us to build a ...
This week, conservation takes center stage as 6,000 global experts dive deep into the issues that will define the physical future of our planet. And with the all the far-reaching impacts of these decisions affecting the long-term sustainability of our planet, it's a gathering that cannot come soon enough.
Are autonomous "driverless" vehicles truly the "next big thing" to transform our transportation system? If so, how soon, and what are the consequence...
Climate adaptation may well be the path to climate mitigation. You don't need to understand or agree with climate science or computer models to invest in infrastructure to reduce damage from extreme weather events.
Throughout our unique paths of life, it is safe to say that we are all working towards something... It could be ending world hunger or working to make...
Now the games have begun! Directed by Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles, known for City of God and supporter of the World Bank Group's Connect4Climate program, the opening ceremony put climate change front and center.
Building resilience to increasing extremes and many more unavoidable effects of warming is imperative. It is especially important in developing countries like Myanmar, where millions of subsistence farmers with limited access to services and poor infrastructure are disproportionately vulnerable.
As the world's two largest economies and two largest emitters, one an industrialized economy and the other an emerging economy, this announcement sends an unprecedented signal to the business community.
Perhaps, over the Labor Day weekend, you'll be able to find somewhere to read where you won't be interrupted by cats, owls, and clarinet-playing apes!...
Florah Maswanganyi, 54, is a farmer from Giyani Village in Limpopo province, South Africa.
In most of the world, the impacts of actions that increase growth and development and the role of climate change on river basins are rarely measured and little understood by key stakeholders, from the general public to government decision-makers.