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Finally, a Billboard That Creates Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air!

Lima is the largest city in Peru and the fifth largest in all of the Americas, with some 7.6 million people (closer to 9 million when you factor in the surrounding metro area). Because it sits along the southern Pacific Ocean, ...
by Natasha Lipman
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COP19: The hungry pangs of climate finance come calling

Just the way we cannot stand to see a hungry child cry for food, we are faced with a situation where there has been a prolonged cry to fill up the belly of a severely malnourished component in tackling climate change, this bein...
by Amanda Asiago
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Infographic: Dense for a Reason? Urban Density and Ecological Sustainability

Tim de Chant, founder of Per Square Mile, made an infographic illustrating the densities of some of the world’s major cities. It shows the amount of land those cities would occupy if they had to accommodate the world’s popu...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Peru Uses Sun To Solve Energy Deprivation

Peru has confirmed its place amongst nations committed to improving lives through sustainable means. On July 8, the first phase of “The National Photovoltaic Household Electrification Program” began. In short, it is aimed a...
by Joe Strong
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Only Indians Can Clean India

I have been following the “Garbage Free India” initiative on Facebook and it has finally given me a incentive to put pen to paper. The initiative aims at sensitising people to keep India garbage free. It talks about “spre...
by Nishant
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Climate Change: Focus on the Arctic

The trends of climate change present a worldwide security challenge and require the adequate response of the international community. The negative impacts of these changes are demonstrated regionally in a different extent; larg...
by Lívia Magdošková
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Option 6: Eat Fewer Hamburgers

If you’re looking for a snapshot of where we’re at on climate change, take a look at this helpful and entertaining flowchart by ClimateDesk. Catering for presidents, mad scientists and individuals alike, it presents three s...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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WATCH: The World’s Oceans Put Into Perspective

Despite some rather condescending commentary from Scott Gass this short clip provides some astonishing insights into the sheer size of the waters that cover the majority of our planet. The fact which most impressed me is that t...
by Callum Henderson
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Still Unsustainable; Nairobi

Changing weather patterns! Ozone layer depletion! Melting ice caps! This has been the alarming news across the globe last few years. When climate change became a public concern a few years back, the media presented Kenya with t...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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