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A young boy walks past the turbines at Muppandal wind farm, Tamil Nadu, India. Muppandal is one of the largest wind farms in Asia.
Nomadic Penan leader Along Sega and his grandchild examine a tree stump near their village in the Sungai Nyakit area of the Sarawak rainforest in Malaysia.Their homeland is undergoing one of the highest rates of logging on earth.
This worker on the Juliana-Jaramillo Banana Producers' Co-operative in the Dominican Republic benefits from the membership of a Fairtrade organisation. This guarantees farmers a minimum wage throughout the year.
This satellite image shows the termini of several glaciers in the Himalayan mountains of Bhutan. The glaciers have been receding over the past few decades, and lakes have formed on the surfaces and near the termini of many of the glaciers.
This gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus, photographed north of Point Barrow in the Arctic, is one of 13 species of Great Whales.
Commentary
World must wake up to the coming crisis in the Sahel
In this Commentary, Malcolm Potts calls for new strategies to avert an environmentally-induced human catastrophe on the fringe of the Sahara Desert.
Latest News
Solar power off the grid: energy access for world's poor
Date: 7 February 2012
More than a billion people worldwide lack access to electricity. The best way to bring it to them — while reducing greenhouse gas emissions — is to launch a global initiative to provide solar panels and other forms of distributed renewable power to poor villages and neighbourhoods.
Why cashew is driving Guinean farmers nuts
Date: 5 February 2012
In rural Guinea-Bissau, farmers largely specialized in cashew production when the nut’s prices soared in the 80s and 90s in the global market. Today, they are the archetypal example of people made vulnerable by dependence on global trade and a single cash crop. Fernando Sousa sent this exclusive report.
Energy poverty remains a global challenge
Date: 1 February 2012
Lack of reliable access to electricity, still affecting nearly a third of the world's population, results in health, environmental, and livelihood challenges.
Suriname survey reveals 46 new species
Date: 31 January 2012
A scientific expedition into one of the world’s last pristine tropical forests has revealed incredibly diverse species and extraordinary cultural heritage.