World Watch

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Latest documents

• Proportional responses: a selection of reader reactions to the announcement that this issue is world watch's last; the announcement offered readers the choice of donating the balance of their subscription or accepting other Worldwatch institute products as substitutes.
• Sanitation innovations help provide safe water and food.
• Rocky future.
• More accurate emissions data needed worldwide, U.S. researchers say.
• My own private hydrogen.
• India imposes coal tax.
• Languishing languages: snapshots of efforts around the globe to preserve unique ways of thinking and speaking.
• India lights future with efficient lamps.
• Voices from Africa: the South.
• A dam sight worse.

Featured documents

• Flushing forests: the pursuit of hygienic elimination is eliminating a lot of forest.
• War and the environment: war can wreck landscapes and ecosystems as well as people.
• Planting hope on Hispaniola: Haiti and the Dominican Republic are both grappling with ravaged forests, each in its own way.
• Our biopolitical future: four scenarios; Emerging genetic technologies could radically reshape the world, for good or ill.
• More responses to "A Challenge to Conservationists".
• Conspiracy of the levees: the latest battle of New Orleans.
• Think mobile, act local: leveraging the rapid rise in mobile phone usage for development.
• Troubled waters: Central and South Asia exemplify some of the planet's looming water shortages.
• Voices from Africa.
• Green awakening in a poor country.