Ecology and Environment

Human Wrongs Watch ​Something came out of Lima climate change meeting: the ground-breaking Initiative 20 X 20, with its bold target of restoring 20 million hectares of degraded land in Latin America and the Caribbean by 2020, was launched during the…

  The Mekong River means life: stop the Don Sahong Dam The Mekong is the lifeblood of Southeast Asia (photo: International Rivers) Dear friends of the rainforests, Millions of lives throughout Southeast Asia are intricately entwined with the Mekong River…

Human Wrongs Watch Despite public funding of climate change adaptation measures reaching as high as $26 billion in 2012-2013, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report issued on 5 December 2014 predicts a significant funding gap after 2020 unless…

The Uranium Extraction Policy of Mongolia: The Current Situation By Selenge Lkhagvajav, head of the national movement “For a Nuclear Safe Mongolia” 1. Overall background Mongolia is located between Russia and China, two large powers. The territory of Mongolia is…

Court Rejects Ecuador’s Request to Remove Arbitrators in Chevron Case Correa Claims Mediators Have Not Acted in “Fair, Impartial” Ways November 26, 2014 On Friday, November 21, the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague rejected a request filed by the…

Human Wrongs Watch As Governments prepare to meet for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, starting on Monday 1 December 2014, a top UN official has highlighted the session as an opportunity to raise immediate awareness on…

A nuclear reactor in Belgium has reportedly been shut down following a fire outbreak at the plant. The Tihange 3 power station was shut down automatically on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. local time (0930 GMT) after one of its transformers…

Human Wrongs Watch 21 November 2014 – Every year, household air pollution from cooking kills over four million people and sickens millions more, the United Nations spotlighted at a New York conference on cookstoves, as it urged Governments to take…

Human Wrongs Watch By Martin L., Joris T., Leon V. and Faiza O.*, 21 November, 2014  – Once upon a time fossil fuel exploration took place far away, out of sight and out of mind. But as oil and gas giants become…

Human Wrongs Watch For every dollar invested in water and sanitation, there is a $4.3 return in the form of reduced health care costs for individuals and society around the world, where 2.5 billion people still lack access to basic…