IB Geography Patterns and Change

A swelling global population, changing diets and mankind's expanding "water footprint" could be bringing an end to the era of cheap water.

Several articles in this edition about carbon of setting

The pioneering new president of the Indian Ocean nation announces plans for his country - under grave threat from climate change - to go carbon-neutral in a decade

Government investment worth £50bn would convince private companies that power from the Sahara solar scheme is feasible and attractive option, expert says

Jalozai was the largest Afghan refugee settlement but was demolished in June 2008 and its settlers were told either to go to their home country or move to other locations inside Pakistan. Insecurity, land disputes and lack of jobs have stopped tens of thousands of returnees from moving to their original areas and rebuilding their houses. Some households, including Jamaluddin's, have set up tents and mud huts in different parts of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar

There are already too many people living on Planet Earth, according to one of most influential science advisors in the US government.

Climate change experts in North and South America are increasingly worried by the potentially devastating implications of higher estimates for possible sea level rises.

high-powered group of senior Republicans and Democrats led two missions to China in the final months of the Bush administration for secret backchannel negotiations aimed at securing a deal on joint US-Chinese action on climate change, the Guardian has learned.

Problem of too many men is exacerbating as rural women 'marry out' into cities, says researcher

Problem of too many men is exacerbating as rural women 'marry out' into cities, says researcher

People are moving around the world constantly-either toward opportunity or away from misfortune and fear. This is where people are going, and where they are coming from.

RUSSIA has a long tradition of honouring it soldiers, scholars and scientists for their achievements. Yesterday, it honoured parents with large families with the "Order of Parental Glory" - part of a campaign to halt a dramatic population decline.

Britain is the world centre of a multibillion dollar "carbon offset" industry which is failing to lower global greenhouse gas emissions, a major report from Friends of the Earth claimed today.

The Indonesian Maritime Minister's proposal comes as a report this week reinforces the need to accommodate forecast increasing numbers of people displaced by climate change

A new analysis has shown that payments to reduce carbon emissions from the forests could generate more income than palm oil production on deforested land.

With the European elections having just taken place, Patricia Fungisayi Mukubvu-Mwanyisa describes how the voting process in Zimbabwe in 2008 has left Zimbabwean women with "political wounds" and a deep feeling of disempowerment

Many refugees didn't escape persecution to just vanish or blend in here. They want to contribute to our culture. By Chris Mugan

Video Climate change hurts poor in China

Intercative climate change map for the UK

Move marks dramatic shift away from 30-year priority of keeping population down

We all know that adapting to climate change is going to cost us -- but that doing nothing will ultimately cost us even more -- however, a new report from the International Institute for Environment and Development says that the real costs of adaptation are likely to be 2-3 times greater than those estimated by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change :