Climate Change Impacts and Emerging Population Trends: A Recipe for Disaster?
More sizzling summers. Rising sea levels. Increasingly violent storms and floods. These are just a few of the many potential impacts of climate change projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific body created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Association and the United Nations Environment Programme. (October 2001)

What's in Store for the Next Earth Summit? An Interview with Tom Lovejoy
PRB recently spoke with Dr. Thomas Lovejoy, chief biodiversity advisor for the World Bank, about prospects for the Conference on Sustainable Development to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in September 2002. Preparations are underway to develop an agenda for the conference, known as "CSD10" since it marks the 10-year anniversary of the original Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (October 2001)

Healthy People Need Healthy Forests

 Deforestation worldwide continues at a net rate of 9.4 million hectares a year, posing a serious threat to human communities and natural ecosystems at the outset of the 21st century. (October 2001)

A New Take on Climate Change: The Sky Trust Initiative
The problem of climate change has surged to the fore recently as the United States, Europe, and Japan have sparred over strategies for addressing the issue. As chairman of Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions (also known as the Sky Trust Initiative), Rafe Pomerance has laid out a strategy for reducing the U.S. contribution to this global environmental problem. (October 2001)

Pesticides: A Threat to Central America's Children and the Region's Future
Pesticides pose a health threat to people of all ages, but children face the greatest danger of all. And while children all over the world are menaced by these chemicals, nowhere is the threat more serious than in Central America. (September 2001)

Childhood Asthma: A Growing American Epidemic
Asthma, the leading chronic illness for children in the U.S., affects one out of every 15 kids. The highest rates of asthma are found in non-Hispanic black children living in families with incomes below the poverty level. (August 2001)

Tackling Asthma in West Harlem
West Harlem Environmental Action (WE ACT), a community-based environmental health and justice organization, has been working since 1988 to reduce childhood asthma in the highly burdened neighborhoods of northern New York City. (August 2001)

Children's Environmental Health
An assortment of both traditional and emerging environmental threats endanger children's health at the outset of the 21st century, a problem that is attracting increasing attention from both activists and policymakers alike. (July 2001)

Eco-Tourism: Encouraging Conservation or Adding to Exploitation?
Eco-tourism, responsible travel to natural areas, has emerged as one of the most important sectors of the international tourism industry. Eco-tourism is a creative way of marrying the goals of ecological conservation and economic development. But some eco-tourism projects are far less than successful. (April 2001)

Earth Day in the Information Age
April 22 marks the first "Earth Day" of the 21st century. Environmental information, "green data," has come a long way since the first day in 1970. (April 2001)