Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the past century - to the point that now about 1.2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water; another 3 billion do not have adequate sanitation. Further, as climate change alters weather patterns, areas such as the Mediterranean region and ...

Forests help to provide us the very air we breathe, yet we still cut down Portugal-sized chunks of forest every year. Tropical forests cover less than just 5% of the Earth’s surface, but global deforestation threatens their long-term survival, as well as the survival of the wildlife - and Humans - that rely on them. The ...

If you are one of the 3.9 billion people around the World living in a city, the air in your lungs is very likely hurting you. More than 80% of those who live in cities with more than 100,000 that monitor air pollution are exposed to air quality levels that exceed WHO limits. 98% of cities in ...

My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from Sweden. I speak on behalf of Climate Justice Now. Many people say that Sweden is just a small country and it doesn’t matter what we do. But I’ve learned you are never too small to make a difference. And if a few ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on mountaintops, raising sea level by 216 feet. There are more than five million cubic miles of ice on Earth, and some scientists say it would take more than 5,000 years to melt it all. If we continue ...

For decades now you witnessed massive increases in Human population, global warming, famines and droughts, epidemics of unusual infections. Diseases like the black plague, smallpox, and HIV, shifts in water distribution and the disappearance of ecosystems, forests, food and other natural resources. Nature is telling that our World is in terrible trouble, and we are just beginning to feel ...

'Ten Billion' is about us. It is about you, your children, your parents, your friends. It is about every one of us. It is about our failure: failure as individuals, the failure of business, and the failure of our politicians. It is about deforestation, desertification and species extinction. It is about global warming and growing threats ...

The combination of deforestation, climate change, and other factors could push the rainforest beyond the point of no return. If deforestation goes beyond 20% of its original spread, the Amazon rainforest will have reached the point of no return. If the climate changes by deforestation or global warming there is a risk that more than 50% of ...

The World experienced tremendous economic growth over the past one hundred years thanks to the use of coal for the generation of electricity. But that growth model has now moved into the annals of history and will never return. Coal has been displaced by cleaner, cheaper and more effective forms of energy generation, due to the ...

When will we as Humans realize that we are not separate from nature and that infact we are nature. When will we understand than when we destroy the planet we are destroying ourselves. We live in an insane time when no one is thinking long term and actions are based on short-term profits. But there is still hope. ...