A 2009 World Health Organization and UNICEF study found that 24,000 children in developing countries die each day (one every three-and-a-half seconds) from preventable causes like diarrhea resulting from polluted water.
The Obama administration urges the United Nations to do more to fight worldwide discrimination of the lgbt community. The Vatican tells the U.N. that those with anti-gay beliefs are being attacked and having their fundamental human rights violated. A group of transgender residents file a lawsuit against New York City.
If the oceans continue to become filled with with debris and garbage, their many systems will begin to fail and it will not be long before the land dwelling creatures feel the effects.
The debate on how to deal with Iran is centered around two options: economic sanctions and military action. However, we might be fooling ourselves that these options would be effective, or that we have any options.
The film stars Pete Postlethwaite (The Usual Suspects) as a global archivist in the future who is wondering why the heck people didn't get the clue about global climate change and stop it when we still had a chance.
Learn how reducing your beef (or all meat, for that matter) consumption could make quite an impact on not only your health, but also on the environment. Hey, Paul McCartney is doing it.
The Ecological Footprint is measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate compared to all of the resources we humans use. With this model, we can see how much of our planet it takes to support us while we live a certain lifestyle (i.e.: staying on our current track of waste, or mending our ways and becoming more resourceful).