Glaciers in the Himalayas provide the water source for one-sixth of humanity. Now that water source is threatened by climate change. This report comes from Guanli Wang, a journalist with China S&T, who joined an expedition documenting climate change in action.
At this year’s International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting anti-whaling nations achieved a 37-4 vote for a resolution strengthening the commercial whaling ban. However, Japan still plans to hunt over 1,000 whales in the Southern Ocean this year – including 50 threatened humpbacks.
Greenpeace recently launched a protest against the destructive operations of a paper giant in the carbon-rich forest peatlands of Indonesia's Kampar Peninsula. Days later, the Indonesian government suspended the company's licence to destroy.
