The Vanishing Nile: A Great River Faces a Multitude of Threats
The Nile River is under assault on two fronts – a massive dam under construction upstream in Ethiopia and rising sea levels leading to saltwater intrusion downstream.
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The Nile River is under assault on two fronts – a massive dam under construction upstream in Ethiopia and rising sea levels leading to saltwater intrusion downstream.
Midway through a lackluster freshman year at the University of San Diego, I called my parents and told them I planned to leave school after the spring semester.
At the COP 21 climate convention in Paris at the end of 2015, leaders from 194 nations agreed to pursue actions that will cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial conditions.
There’s no denying that the aviation industry has taken a toll on the environment.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at curbing climate change.
As China pursues a startling array of energy, mining, logging, agricultural, and infrastructure projects on virtually every continent, it is having an unprecedented environmental impact on the planet.
A container of plastic garbage pulled into Stockholm a couple of weeks ago.
It could have been angry and defiant. It could have been despondent and fatalistic. Or worse, it could have been rosy and effervescent.
The Trump administration is expected to roll back the fuel economy standards that were a signature achievement of the Obama administration.
As a woman who has chronicled the technology business for close to three decades (ahem), I’m used to being at briefings where the gender demographics are way out of balance and I am decidedly in the minority.