Businesses Taking Lead in Climate Response
Spurred by consumer demand for eco-friendly practices, many businesses across the U.S. are moving aggressively to reduce their carbon footprint, including a major embrace...
Why world travelers are going cashless
What’s your dream vacation? Whether you live to travel or only manage to get away for a couple of long weekends every year, you...
Africa’s Answer to Climate and Weather Challenges: The Africa Hydromet Program
Tesfaye, a grain and legume farmer in rural Ethiopia, takes a break from guiding his grazing cattle to analyze the skies in Chanco, north...
Why LGBTI Inclusion Is Key to Shared Prosperity
Apple’s birth certificate and other official documents issued by the government of Thailand indicate that she is male. But from the time of her...
Advancing Africa with Renewable Energy Auctions
Driven by a growing interest in renewable energy technologies as a competitive mechanism for price determination auctions have become the fastest growing renewable energy...
Better Migration Systems Can Propel Thailand to Grow Faster
Thailand can strengthen its migration policies and systems to support sustained, innovation-driven growth, under its Thailand 4.0 strategy, experts concluded at a presentation of...
Is natural gas in good shape for the future?
“Are we entering a Golden Age of Gas?” – That was the question the International Energy Agency asked in 2011 when examining the combination...
Afghanistan Resurrects its Largest Hydropower Plant Toward a Brighter Future
Naghlu Hydropower Plant (NHPP), Afghanistan’s largest hydropower plant, has restarted operations of one of its four turbines after being nonfunctional since 2012, providing electricity...
Cooler buildings and lower bills in summer thanks to green walls and roofs
A 15% cut in the energy bill with a 40% reduction of the direct solar radiation in dwellings and a lower indoor temperature by...
Alarm over “stark increase” in hate crimes across UK post-Brexit
Sounding an alarm over a “stark increase” in hate crimes across the United Kingdom as well as “widespread discrimination” faced by ethnic minorities, a...