The theme of this year's World Environment Day, Forests: Nature at Your Service, underscores the variety of life-sustaining services that forests provide and calls us all to take action to protect these resources and move towards a greener economy.
James Boyce | Posted 05.25.2011
New research is helping make clear that saving our environment doesn't mean compromising our future. According to one study, protecting rainforests reduces poverty as well as conserving biodiversity.
Tulsi Tanti | Posted 05.25.2011
World Environment Day - the day we celebrate the environment. But what exactly is different on this one particular day of the year? Do we for one day ...
Lori Pottinger | Posted 05.25.2011
You've probably gotten the flyers from well-meaning green groups urging you to adopt a species. I'm here to say you need to do more. You need to adopt the whole planet.
John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011
Our lifestyles, our consumption patterns, the way we use resources, the waste we generate and the way we deal with our waste are all major contributing factors in the degradation of our environment.
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
World Environment Day, which falls on June 5 every year, was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 -- shortly after the US instituted Earth D...
AFP | Posted 05.25.2011
LONDON (AFP) - Prince Charles called for urgent action to combat deforestation as part of an effort to fight off the effects of climate change, in a c...
Don Cheadle | Posted 08.02.2011