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2008 Goldman Prize Winner Jesus Leon Santos on Bringing Desert Lands Back to...
Photo credit: Will Parrinello and Jim Iacona. In a time when "modern" agriculture is depleting many areas of Latin America as farmers seek higher yields, Jesus Leon Santos is taking the opposite...
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Aral Sea Rehabilitation Program's First Phase Hailed as Success
Not too long ago everyone had pretty much written off the Aral Sea as a lost cause. Soviet irrigation policies had diverted water from
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China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spreads 1,300 Square Miles Per...
Many TreeHugger readers probably know the now-familiar sobering statistics regarding the nature of China’s economic rise and its toll on the environment: 14,000 new cars on the roads each day, 52,000...
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Good Growing Regions Drying Up in Turkey
As the host of a recent meeting on the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Turkey touted its expertise on the subject, with the Environment Ministry's Erdoğan...
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Waterboxx Offers Possibilities for Reforestation in the Desert
It appears to be just a run of the mill, regular, rectangular plastic bucket with a whole in the centre, but the Waterboxx is actually a sophisticated design that traps night time condensation.
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February Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
This month saw the Turkish Parliament finally ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But there were plenty of
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Time to Buy a Quad - Biggest Sand Dunes Get Bigger with Climate Change
One of the many other "changes" (benefits?) to come our way, scientists now predict, is the growth in the worlds largest sand dunes, reports New Scientist this week. We're talking sand dunes that are...
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Observe World Water Day on March 22
Images from Prix Pictet World Water Day, celebrated on March 22 every year, is an initiative of the United Nations that recognises that water is a basic requirement for all life. This year's theme:...
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Rainforests: Lungs AND Heart of the Planet?
Images via: Getty Images New Scientists reports this month a possibly controversial finding that not only are rainforests giant carbon sinks of the planet (lungs), but they may also be responsible for...
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Seedbomb Instills Fear And Plants Trees
The Seedbomb, an unintentional eco-terrorist, is a non-military "bomb" designed for protecting the earth.
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Keeping Sewage Out of Turkey's Salt Lake
The primary source of water flow into Tuz Lake is neither rivers nor rainfall, but sewage from the nearby city of Konya and local villages and towns--and the pollution is not only killing the
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Climate Change Puts the Reality in This TV Show
At first it sounds like any other reality show: "Candidates will be put through a series of tough physical
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Thirsty Yet? In LA, Annenberg Space Photo Exhibit Explores Water Issues
Before and after shots of our vanishing water depict a dramatic display through inspiring imagery at the "Water: Our Thirsty World" exhibit at
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Half of Earth Will Be Uninhabitable by 2300, Study Says
Three hundred years ago, the Age of Enlightenment spread notions of reason, democracy, and scientific progress throughout much of the world. From that time, our global civilization has come a long...
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Scientist Solves Mystery of Fertile Persian Gulf
On land, a fierce dust storm blots out any sign of life. But offshore, these banes of desert-dwellers' existence can be providers of life in what might otherwise be empty waters,
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Mideast Nations to Work Together to Fight Sandstorms
Though conflicts over sparse water supplies have created rifts between Turkey and its neighbors, the sandstorms they exacerbate have brought countries in the region
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Barcelona Design Week 2010: D-Lab's 4 Designs Against Poverty (Photos + Videos)
At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from
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Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art
High above the earth hover satellites; their eyes trained on the surface, capturing images from a perspective few humans will ever experience. Besides their unique position, these satellites are...
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Breathtaking Satellite Photos Showcase the Fragile Earth as Art (Slideshow)
High above the earth hover satellites; their eyes trained on the surface, capturing images from a perspective few humans will
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