The world's foremost environmental prize has announced more female winners than ever before.
The struggle for a healthy planet may sometimes feel like a series of defeats, This year's Goldman Environmental Prize celebrates six remarkable success stories, five of them driven by women.
This is the first time that five of the six are women.
The winners include South African anti-nuclear activists Makoma Lekalakala and Liz McDaid, Vietnamese clean-energy advocate Nguy Thi Khanh, US clean-water defender LeeAnne Walters, and French marine-life champion Claire Nouvian. The one male winner is Philippine anti-lead campaigner Manny Calonzo.
Apr 19, 2018
New Antarctic Process Contributing to Sea Level Rise
A new study has revealed a previously undocumented process where melting glacial ice sheets change the ocean in a way that further accelerates the rate of ice melt and sea level rise. The research found that glacial meltwater makes the ocean's surface layer less salty and more buoyant, preventing deep mixing in winter and allowing warm water at depth to retain its heat and further melt glaciers from below.
Mar 31, 2018
Rhino Population Rises by 12
The population of the one-horned rhino in Assam's Kaziranga National Park has risen to 2,413, according to 2018 census. Correctional census to get a better estimate will be conducted in Kaziranga next year.
Mar 24, 2018
Arctic Wintertime Sea Ice Extent
According to scientists at the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NASA, sea ice in the Arctic grew to its annual maximum extent last week, and joined 2015, 2016 and 2017 as the four lowest maximum extents on record.
On March 17, the Arctic sea ice cover peaked at 5.59 million square miles (14.48 million square kilometers), making it the second lowest maximum on record.
Mar 22, 2018
Too Late to Save World's Glaciers
Scientists studying the impact of climate change on all glaciers in the world found that it is already too late to save 36 per cent of the world's glaciers. And this is for all glaciers in the world, not including the massive Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.
This automatically means that sea level rise cannot be prevented, holding grave consequences for coastal communities all over the world.
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