The reason they make sounds at all is basically because glaciers contain bubbles, which make sounds. We mentioned that a glacier is a big body of ice, and the number of bubbles in one is just enormous—there are billions of bubbles inside. In contrast, when you have an iceberg, that’s
It’s International Women’s Day and while many are asserting their inherent value by participating in “A Day Without A Woman’ events, small scale female farmers in the developing world don’t have the luxury of taking a day off from their responsibilities. Women are the ‘invisible’ producers of more than half
Reporting both live and virtually from Bonn, Germany, The Global Festival of Ideas launched its three day revolutionary “playable conference” today with word that it’s not too late for you to chime in. The “Playable Conference” is mixing digital platforms, ‘trialing’ new ideas and fostering innovative collaborations to catalyze heretofore
In an unprecedented papal encyclical, Pope Francis is calling for a economic and ethical revolution to wage battle against climate change. The letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics will be released in five languages on Thursday, June 18 and will expound upon the link between economics, poverty, and ecological
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, speaking at the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, yesterday emphasized the need to “embed Disaster Risk Reduction into the very DNA of our sustainable development framework.” “Sustainability starts in Sendai,” he said. “Disaster Risk Reduction can be a front
The failure of government officials to adequately represent the necessity to actively involve youth within the framework of the Sustainble Development Goals (SDGs) is further fueling collaboration among numerous organizations championing the rights of youth to determine their future. Reporting on this month’s negotiations on the Post 2015 Agenda, Path
The United Nations launch of The World We Want calls on citizens everywhere to sign up and share their priorities to build “a collective vision that will be used directly by the United Nations and World Leaders to plan a new development agenda launching in 2015, one that is based