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Saving the forests - and the chimps

Posted by: Vicky Seymour, Posted on: 11 June 2010 - Categories: Africa, Climate Change

After all the excitement of the elections, I took the chance to have a couple of weeks off in Uganda and Ethiopia. Now I try not to think about work when I’m having some down time. But when your work …

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Blog Action Day | A Personal Journey – from Lomborg to Pachauri via Stern (and Homer Simpson!)

Posted by: Shantanu Mitra, Posted on: 15 October 2009 - Categories: Climate Change

If someone had suggested to me six or seven years ago that I would end up working on climate change, I would have taken it with a pinch of salt. If I thought much about the issue at all I …

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