Spain’s Oil Deposits And Fracking Sites Trigger Energy Gold Rush
Major offshore oil discoveries and prospects for shale gas extraction are generating excitement and resistance.
New UN Report Is Cautious On Making Climate Predictions
The draft of the latest report from the IPCC warns that the world faces serious risks from warming and that the poor are especially vulnerable. But it avoids the kinds of specific forecasts that have sparked controversy in the past.
A Honduran Paradise that Doesn’t Want to Anger the Sea Again
At the mouth of the Aguán river on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, a Garífuna community living in a natural paradise that was devastated 15 years ago by Hurricane Mitch has set an example of adaptation to climate change.
Earthquakes, hurricanes, cyclones and tsunamis: the world’s 10 riskiest cities
What are the world’s riskiest cities when it comes to natural disasters?