World Water Week: How innovation will help save and clean up water supply

As experts gathered in Stockholm for World Water Week, thethirdpole.net looks at the most interesting innovations that could transform how we use ...

Governments, traders urged to stem Congo Basin timber trade

Congo Basin governments and their main timber trading partners must take concrete action to tackle illegal logging according to Greenpeace Africa.

Evolving the Grid

Hurricane Sandy served as a sobering wake-up call to the ways in which we consume and store energy. Meghan Walsh takes us on a walk through the possibilities ...

How three U.S. mini-farms are sowing the seeds for global food security

Tiny, biointensive operations show smallholder farmers from around the world how they can grow far more food than conventional approaches.

A ‘less defensive’ China can help spur global climate deal

China’s new climate diplomacy could make a major contribution to a future climate pact, but a global agreement in Paris will likely be general outlines rather ...

US, India may deepen energy ties to combat climate change

A general agreement to collaborate and boost trade and investment in nuclear and solar energy during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fourth visit to the US ...

The Choctaw v climate change: 'The earth is speaking'

In the US, members of the Choctaw nation fight to reclaim their relationship with the land in a world without seasons.

Climate vulnerable nations alarmed over potential US exit from Paris pact

Island nations say the US' possible cancellation of the Paris Agreement causes uncertainty, but believe that it is a "challenge" that can be overcome

US Clean Power Plan likely to withstand lawsuits against climate action

President Obama's Clean Power Plan will make it difficult for individual US states to resist executive action, writes climate policy expert Ivan Frishberg.

IPCC's Thomas Stocker: "I am optimistic, but realistic" about COP21

Development isn't bound to fossil fuels, says Thomas Stocker, Swiss climate scientist and candidate in the October election for a new IPCC chair.