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Residential Project Achieves High Standard for Green, Affordable Urban...

In the midst of a South Bronx, New York City neighborhood known for blight, poverty, pollution and crime, families are now moving into a very special residential complex named Via Verde, The Green Way,...

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Study on Fungi Evolution Answers Questions About Ancient Coal Formation and...

 Study Reveals the Potentially Large Influences of Fungi, One of the Most Biologically Diverse Classes of Organisms, On Our Energy SuppliesA new study which includes the first large-scale comparison of...

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Scientists Discover New Trigger for Immense North Atlantic Plankton Bloom

The newly discovered mechanism triggering the blooming of countless microscopic plant plankton, or phytoplankton, in the North Atlantic helps explain the timing of the spring and summer bloom, known to...

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Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Install 69,500 Photovoltaic Solar Panels To Generate...

Sainsbury's has installed 69,500 new photovoltaic solar panels, or 16 MW of power, across 169 stores in the UK.  The significant investment means collectively Sainsbury's supermarkets currently host...

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Global Leaders are Convening at World Water Week to Confront Growing Water...

Over 2500 politicians, business leaders, and representatives of 200 international organizations are meeting at the World Water Week in Stockholm, August 26-31 2012, where they are working to share...

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WASH Media Award Winners Recognized for Excellence in Reporting

 The six winners of the WASH Media Award for excellence in reporting on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene-related (WASH) Issues received their awards during a ceremony on 31 August 2012 at the World Water...

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Finding Means to Meet Water and Food Needs at 2012 World Water Week

 The 2012 World Water Week (WWW) in Stockholm, Sweden, organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute Stockholm (SIWI), undertook the task of addressing crucial concerns focusing on "Water...

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PepsiCo Receives the 2012 Stockholm Industry Water Award

  PepsiCo received the Stockholm Industry Water Award at the 2012 World Water Week in Stockholm for its work to reduce water consumption in their operations and to help solve water challenges on a...

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Singapore Students Win 2012 Stockholm Junior Water Prize

The winners were students Luigi Marshall Cham, Jun Yong Nicholas Lim and Tian Ting Carrie-Anne Ng from Singapore for their research on how clay can be used to remove and recover pollutants from...

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Aditi Mukherji Research Results Make it Easier for Farmers to Access Water in...

Aditi Mukherji, a senior social scientist based in International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Delhi office, has been announced as the first ever winner of the Norman Borlaug Award for Field...

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Free Scholarly Journal Articles and Global Health DVDs Available to...

The Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) at Tufts University, co-directed by Dr. Neva Goodwin, has released an extraordinary collection of publications in the social and environmental...

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Evbuotubu Primary School, Nigeria: A Journalist’s Experience (1 and 2)

Need for Interventions in School W.A.S.H Education andAwareness Creation:        Flooding apart, environmental awareness, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) education and culture this reporter...

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NASA Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East

A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during the past decade.  Published on Feb...

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Book “Water Ethics” Calls for Use of Practical Wisdom from Different Cultures...

Peter Brown and Jeremy Schmidt’s book “Water Ethics” proposes “…that we will need to think about water ecologically—as something that binds us together in a shared and interdependent world—and which we...

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"Ocean In Focus" Photography Contest to Advance Ocean Conservation: Finalists...

SeaWeb, an international non-profit ocean conservation organization, announced the six finalists of the Marine Photobank’s fifth annual “Ocean In Focus” photography contest on 12 March 2013. The...

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One Health Initiative Advances Care for Humans, Animals and the Environment

“One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.” “One Health...

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Human Disease Leptospirosis Identified in the Banded Mongoose in Africa

 Scientists find widespread but neglected disease is significant health threat in BotswanaThe newest public health threat in Africa, scientists have found, is coming from a previously unknown source:...

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Pandas in the Wild Filmed by WWF Camera Traps Offer Rare Glimpse of Habitat...

On 22 May 2013 the WWF released dozens of photographs and video footage of endangered species captured by camera traps in the mountainous giant panda reserves in China, marking this year’s...

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Sanitation Innovator Named 2013 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate

Over the past four decades, Dr. Morgan has invented and advanced low-cost practical solutions to provide access to safe sanitation and clean water for millions of people worldwide. By combining a...

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Global Leader In Drip Irrigation Receives Stockholm Industry Water Award

Netafim, a leading provider of drip irrigation worldwide, was named winner of the 2013 Stockholm Industry Water Award. Currently, more than ten million hectares of farmland are irrigated with drip...

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