POLAR FOCUS: Iceland Exceptionalism – Renewable energies, effective pandemic measures and careful tourism.
Steam from one of Iceland's innumerable geysers. Abundant renewable geothermal resources help cover 85 per cent of the country's energy needs. (Photo: Tira Shubart) Iceland sits bang on...
‘People, planet, profit can be the new norm, with a COVID-19 sense of urgency’
What is there good to say about the COVID-19 crisis? Dimitri de Vreeze, co-CEO of DSM, a big Dutch company producing health, nutrition products and materials, has one positive message for the...
Caribbean Dreams – Economic Nightmares
No-one still knows whether the industrial heart of the Bahamas can bounce back from what was probably the worst hurricane in its recorded history.
Local, national and international bodies are determined...
Mangroves: a tool for climate change – and more
Community participation is the key to successful nature-based solutions to environmental challenges, IUCN argues.
This article is part of Global Geneva's Focus on Oceans series.
Mangrove forests have a special place in my heart, making the...
Coral Vita: Making reef rescue fun – and a business
Gator Halpern, recently named 2018 Young Champion, and his project Coral Vita, founded in 2015 with one-time fellow student Sam Teicher, have already received many awards. Among them: Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018...
An oink heard around the world
Celebrating the scene of Thunderball as well as swimming pigs "We can't thank them all...
The greenest deal ever? From a car company.
Business funding of public projects, including actions by Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, have come under cold scrutiny lately. But private-public partnerships are also becoming crucial as conventional donors cut back on funding to...
Too tall tiger tales
When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Global Tiger Forum (GTF) roared the news last week that “for the first time in 100 years, tiger numbers are growing”, the media, including the New...
Will climate change destroy Columbus’s islands?
Earlier this month, the Bahamas National Trust held a special workshop to explore how climate change is affecting the fauna and flora of this Caribbean island chain. Contributing editor Peter Hulm highlights some of...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 Grand title winner
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015: Don Gutoski, Canada
A Tale of Two Foxes
Natural History Museum From a distance, Don could see that the red fox was chasing something across the snow. As he got closer, he...
Finding signs of climate change and adaptation in the ancient Maya lowlands
A new study pinpoints the devastating effects of climate change on ancient Maya civilization, despite attempts to adapt to it. These are also issues being currently explored by the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...
New report connects human health to biodiversity protection
Photo of strawberry dart frog in Costa Rica. Rhett Butler.
The following article earlier this month explores a ground-breaking report linking biodiversity and health presented at the 14th World Congress on Public Health in Kolkata, India....
Letter from Katmandu: The air I breathe – my relationship with black carbon
The following piece is contributed by Donatella Lorch, a former New York Times correspondent, based in Katmandu, Nepal. It was first pubished on her site tangledjourneys - A personal perspective on human interest stories from an American...
Beyond the blah-blah: What now with the Sustainable Development Goals?
The creation of a new and more realistic post-2015 agenda to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is already happening with Geneva in the forefront. But how will the new SDGs be implemented and...
The carbon tax you are already paying
This piece is contributed by Mark Schapiro, an international writer specialising in environmental issues. He is currently working on his new book titled CARBON SHOCK.
On the heels of the hottest spring in memory, and...
Time to focus on the people behind the numbers
This piece is contributed by Nick van Praag, a humanitarian specialist and director of Keystone's Ground Truth programme.
A slew of statistics released this week by UNHCR points to a rising tide of human misery as the...
Frontline Earth: Maidan, Taksim, Tahrir – Revolution 2.0
The following piece in French is by Essential Edge French editor Daniel Wermus.
Geneva -- Chaque bouleversement technologique a, dans l’histoire, produit un bouleversement social. L’imprimerie a déclenché la Réforme. La révolution industrielle, le mouvement...
How bad language leads to poor humanitarian outcomes
Nicholas van Praag of Keystone's Groundtruth programme writes about the importance of language when dealing with the people one is trying to help.
When someone as eloquent as Robert Chambers chides you on your use of language,...
Senegal turns toward agro-ecology
The following piece is by Essential Edge French editor Daniel Wermus.
Le Sénégal veut se tourner vers l’agro-écologie
Le processus « Changement de cap dans l’agriculture », lancé après Rio+20 par le Comité de la sécurité alimentaire mondiale,...
No accounting for what charities ship overseas
The following report was published 24 January 2014 by the Center for Investigative Reporting in San Francisco as part of the America's Worst Charities' Project with the Tampa Bay Times and CNN. It was...
By air, by land and by Karma – transportation in Nepal’s Himalayas
The following article on travelling in Nepal was written by Donatella Lorch, an American-Italian journalist living in Katmandu.
Katamandu -- I learned a new expression this week: Controlled Flight into Terrain or CFIT meant to...
In Nepal’s Himalayas, the uphill battle is against plastic
Letter from Katamandu
Journalist Donatella Lorch has sent us this dispatch from Nepal.
As any tour company will tell you, Nepal is the land of the Gods. It is the birthplace of Buddha and home to...
