Tourists meet Tortoise.

Images from Infosys powerpoint on green energy initiatives

It is hot in Rajasthan, India. Four hundred years ago when building palaces, they installed air conditioning to beat the heat.

Photo via Betacontrol

The tiny town of Urucu, deep in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, could easily be seen as some sort of eco-paradise.

Perhaps the most striking thing about flying over the Amazon rainforest is how untouched it looks; there's no checkered quilt of farmland or veins of highway. From horizon to horizon it's nothing but an impossibly vast sea of green, inspiring the same sense of minuteness one might feel gazing at the Milky Way.

U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young

The Associated Press is reporting that 58,000 of Baghdad's estimated 1.25 million stray dogs have been killed in the last three months.

photo: Greg Scales via flickr

We've covered this one on a number of occasions but with World Population Day just passed, it's worth bring up again: In a new op-ed published at Grist and elsewhere,

Beijing shopping mall, photo: John via flickr

James Kanter over at the New York Times point out a very important statistical update: According to an assessment of per capita carbon emissions by the

Two of photographer Antonio Briceño's diptych portraits from Rwanda.

Family and friends pose in front of a house in South Africa with a new solar heating system.

Photo via Deutsche Welle

In its new short-film documentary series Global Ideas, Germany-based news broadcaster Deutsche Welle draws attention to smart sustainability projects all over the world: island conservation in Micronesia, reforestation in Tanzania, green electricity in Spain, energy-efficient stoves in