Chinese media has taken a stand on air pollution in China by calling on the government to take action against pollution, which according to the media, have reached dangerous levels in the capital city, which is home to around 20 million people. According to the media, the air quality in Beijing [...]

Four out of five Americans now believe A recent poll from AP-GFK poll on climate values reveals that four in five Americans believe that “climate change will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it.” And that’s not all! The poll also found that 57% of Americans think [...]

Fisheries in the European Union are confident that they’re moving towards more efficient and sustainable fishing practices that should see the stocks of threatened species recover. The Associated Press (AP) reports that after a marathon all-night negotiating session, EU fishing nations came up with dozens of new quotas next year [...]

Norway’s government has announced that it’s stepping up its efforts to fight global warming. In recent years, the country has led developed nations by investing billions of dollars to slow tropical deforestation. This week, Reuters reports that the nation’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said his government will be going further [...]

This past weekend, the Japanese headed to the polls to take part in the first election since the catastrophic nuclear disaster. But the election results have anti-nuclear critics across the country shocked and baffled. Many of them are struggling to understand how the Liberal Democratic Party not only won, but [...]

Until recently: If you were a Brazilian landowner who broke the law by clearing your land of native forestry, planting trees was your punishment. But Brazil has reportedly turned to the digital world to make things right in the environmental realm. According to the Associated Press (AP), the country has [...]

The world’s second largest beef exporter is working to contain fears over a spread of mad cow disease. In the latest development, Brazil has announced that China and South Africa have temporarily banned the country’s beef imports. The Associated Press (AP) reports that earlier this week Brazil said the carcass [...]

Developing nations are propositioning a radical plan to seek climate change compensation from wealthier developed nations to help them cope with droughts and rising sea levels. Many developed nations are currently in economic crisis and facing budget deficits, and thus, are opposed to such a plan. The United States delegates [...]

After four years of planning, Indonesia announced at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar that it will set aside land, roughly the size of Singapore, as part of a rainforest conservation project. The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve, in Central Kalimantan province on Borneo island, will protect close to 200,000 acres of land and [...]

Despite the likely possibility that China will in some way withdraw from recent climate talks in order to increase its GDP, US State Department envoy Todd Stern is advocating for a binding, international, and environmentally sustainable agreement by 2015. As part of their long-term climate goals, the Obama Administration is [...]