For the first time, the medals awarded at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will contain recycled materials. By Rachel Cernansky Boulder, CO, USA | Tue Feb 16, 2010 04:00 PM ET I haven’t been paying much attention to the Olympics, but there’s one piece of news coming out of Vancouver that I find totally…
A GROUP of elderly Chinesemen quickly surrounded the cars bearing the logo of Syarikat Air Johor Holdings Sdn Bhd (SAJ) as the vehicles pulled up in front of a coffee shop at Kampung Chamek, about an hour’s drive from Kluang, Johor, on Monday.The complaints are the same — no water supply for almost a week,…
The SMK Teloi Kanan School in Kuala Ketil, Malaysia is planting mangroves for Plant-for-the-Planet. The school’s project began in 2006 when they participated in the UNEP Billion Tree Campaign, and continues today. The trees are being planted in Kuala Gula. Kuala Gula forms a part of the Matang Forest Reserve, which is one of the…
Two weeks after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January, a massive humanitarian operation is underway and aid is beginning to reach those who desperately need it in Port-au-Prince and the surrounding areas. The most urgent priorities remain water, health care, shelter and food. Thanks to a team of senior experts on…
Only two out of 10 developed countries’ reduction targets submitted to the Copenhagen Accord qualify as ‘sufficient’ to keep global temperature rise below 2°C. The reduction targets of all countries currently associated with the Accord lead to a striking inconsistency with the 2°C goal defined in the very same Accord. The current pledges leave the…
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