UK plans to generate one third of electricity from renewables by 2020 [+]
India: 16% of humanity but less than 3% of global fresh water resources. [+]
The Rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) increases a child’s chance of surviving leukemia by 10 to 95%. But this plant is increasingly threatened for a host of reasons, and as they disappear so do our life saving resources. [+]
Climate change already is claiming more than 150,000 lives each year, with causes ranging from heat waves to respiratory illness. [+]
Thermal expansion has already raised the oceans 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters). [+]
India’s total GHG emissions stood at 1,853 million metric tons equivalent of carbon dioxide, about 4.9% of global emissions in 2005, according to the World Resources Institute. [+]
