civil society
The new face of activism: Youth
Rather than waiting for adults to act, more young girls and boys are standing up and speaking out on the world's pressing issues.
Thermal houses keep people warm in Peru's Andean highlands
Thirty families from a rural community more than 4,300 meters above sea level will have warm houses that will protect them from the freezing temperatures that each year cause deaths and diseases among children and older adults.
As smog returns, China's cities issue pollution alerts
A government research center says the latest bout of air pollution has lingered because of 'unfavorable' weather conditions.
Local inaction threatens China’s snow leopards, report says
"Human population growth and grassland degradation are likely to push some species to the edge of extinction."
Chile has medicine against desertification, but does not take it
The retention of rainwater which otherwise is lost at sea could be an excellent medicine against the advance of the desert from northern to central Chile, but there is no political will to take the necessary actions, according to experts and representatives of affected communities.
The town that rations water by the hour
Argentina’s Patagonia rebels against oil field waste pits
A project to install a huge deposit of oil field waste pits has triggered a crisis in the north of Argentina's southern Patagonia region, and brought the debate on the environmental impact of extractive industries back to the forefront in this Southern Cone country.