Recently added articles from Environment:
Journeys toward solutions.(EDITORIAL)
Jul 01, 2009; ... In an ideal world, environmental problems move seamlessly to solutions. Scientists, laboring in their ivory towers, uncover an unforeseen threat to humanity. The word gets out, the public agitates, and policymakers implement incentives and regulations. The technology sector responds, ...
Can we grow sustainably?(EDITOR'S PICKS)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Tim Jackson, Prosperity without Growth? The Transition to a Sustainable Economy (London: The UK Sustainable Development Commission, 2009) The UK Sustainable Development Commission provides an independent sustainability perspective on all matters of government policy and action ....
Conservation medicine.(BYTES OF NOTE)(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Conservation medicine, an interdisciplinary field concentrating on the nexus of human and animal health and environmental conditions, has emerged in the last two decades in response to complex health issues as varied as highly pathogenic avian influenza, which connects humans, poultry ...
Stimulating a revolution in sustainable energy technology.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... A consensus is growing that the environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs of the world's addiction to fossil fuels justify a major U.S. federal program to stimulate technological innovation in energy. President Obama and Congress made a down payment on such a program in the February ...
Community-based adaptation to climate change: strengthening resilience through development.(Report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... International efforts to reduce and sequester carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are not yet slowing the rate of global warming. Indeed, the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) anticipates rapid changes in climate even if greenhouse gas ...