RISING WATERS: Cities & Places at Risk
A sampler of interactives, detailed graphics, photo stories and opinion pieces demonstrate and predict how rising waters – sea level rise, urban deltas, flooding and other factors – are a […]
Category Archives: International
RISING WATERS: Ideas & Solutions
Design, planning and engineering innovations from three continents Rotterdam, Thames and Venice Storm Surge Gates: Rotterdam’s Measlantkering in the Netherlands is the largest storm surge barrier in the world, designed to […]
RISING WATERS: Research & Reports
Add these dozen reports and research studies to your online library on rising waters, coastal erosion and climate change! 50 Cities in Climate Change Study: Columbia University’s Earth Institute and […]
Elephant Slaughter Update Oct 25
National Public Radio’s John Burnett traveled to Tanzania to see firsthand how poachers are slaughtering elephants in record numbers, most likely for export to Southeast Asia where there is an […]
CITIES: Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Detroit
A new series looks at urban design, development and cultural life in the world’s cities. Come back often! PARIS: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe won’t be running for re-election (he’s been in […]
Elephants: The Slaughter is On
With a worldwide ban in place since 1989 on trade in ivory, why is it possible throughout Southeast Asia to buy religious icons, amulets and trinkets carved from contemporary African […]
Frogs: Endangered Worldwide
Frogs have been around for 250 million years, and despite what we might call their tenacity to thrive from an evolutionary standpoint, they are highly endangered from loss of habitat, pollution and […]
More Books: Questing
You have only to lift your arms to the keyboard and you’ll be whisked away by page-turners that promise an adventure. Not all are new releases. Oliver Sacks’s decade-old tale […]
Cities: A Plethora of Books
MUMBAI (India) is the fourth most populous city in the world – some 20.5 million people live in the metro area. When Katherine Boo began writing Behind the Beautiful Forevers: […]
Cuba-U.S. Collaborate on Enviro Problems
Nature does not respect political boundaries or, for that matter, tropical storms, hurricanes, oil spills and toxic releases. Too little has been written about the state of biodiversity in Cuba, the risks […]
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