With the ongoing US drone campaigns in Yemen, Somalia, and Pakistan, it seems like many people have specifically labeled drones agents of wanton death and destruction. The more informed individual might label drones as tools of...
Through a combination of renewable energy, power conservation and using 12-volt systems, households could significantly reduce their power usage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Abovyan Street, which leads into Yerevan’s ...
For the second year in a row, UN climate change negotiations take place in the wake of a typhoon striking the Philippines. Last year at the COP18 in Doha, the Filipino climate commissioner, Naderev (otherwise known as Yeb) Sañ...
The tragedy in South East Asia was fore in the minds of those at COP19. Parties offered sympathy and solidarity at the first plenary session. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that the typhoon is the most rece...
In an interview with The Verb, Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has called for greater collaboration between organisations from all over the world in the development of new...
Global climate change is an issue which has haunted much of the industrialised world for the last decade. Almost all scientists, politicians, and people in general acknowledge industrialised nations’ culpability for the d...
The vast majority of the world’s nations and citizens are gambling with the global climate – at stake is humanity’s well-being. But how real is the climate change threat, and who is really to blame? Let’s first deal...
“If you are not at the table, you are probably on the menu,” said Erwin Jackson of The Climate Institute incapsulating the unusual move by the newly elected Australian government in not sending a minister to COP19. NGOs acr...
Economic development, rapidly increasing populations and global warming are making the supply of fresh water one of the greatest challenges facing the states of the Arabian Gulf. The countries of the Arabian Gulf are famed for ...