Rural communities in Ghana are learning how to cope with climate change and save their livelihoods. Npong Francis reports. ...

Cycling reduces air pollution and is good for our health - but in Ghana, many rural farmers cycle out of necessity. How to get to one's farm miles away when there is no public transport? Npong Francis reports. ...

The Raramuri - indigenous people of northwestern Mexico - believe that all living beings are guides to us, humans. One Raramuri environmental leader explains. ...

Real-life Apocalypse: our planet's ecosystems can only take a limited amount of neglect, abuse, and destruction. If they collapse, the world as we know it will collapse too. A new study says this is exactly what's happening. ...

There is much more the government could do to protect small, weather-dependent businesses from the long periods of rain that had been gripping Britain for the last 2 months. ...

A loosely defined document with the idealistic title “The Future We Want” has been agreed upon after week long deliberations by a 193 member committee at the Rio+20. The document has called for the inclusion of “women, non-governmental organisations, and indigenous groups in the sustainable development agenda.” But, these 'recommendations' and 'voluntary' commitments are hollow promises with no compulsory e ...

Interview with Vice-Chair of the Bureau of the Preparatory Committee for Rio+20, Czech Professor Bedřich Moldan. He openly expresses his disbelief in a bold outcome of the event. What is more, he reveals his opinion whom to blame for it. ...

The General Serbian elections held in May resulted in the election of a new president, Tomislav Nikolić - leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).  Voters were given a wide range of political options, however transparency of the election process itself and media coverage did not meet satisfactory standards - according to international observers. The Republican Electoral Commission revealed that 4.3 pe ...

Lady Jackson/Barbara Ward (1914-1981 ) was a pioneer  of today’s well known and most important concept: "Sustainable Development”. She was the first who enlightened and seeded this idea to the public world in its context known today. Barbara Mary Ward (1914 – 1981), in later life Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, was a British economist and writer interested in the problems of developing countries. She urged W ...

Mega-cities becoming eco-cities: is Melbourne on the right track? ...