While land-grabs and exploration for natural gas and renewables continues across the natural landscape, prospecting for a different prize has gradually taken hold in the built environment.
It was a contest that required all the skills learned over 50 years in Thailand's treacherous business environment, of patience and ruthless determination to win the prize.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has designated 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on the environment and climate change.
Two U.S. scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a primary way the billions of cells in the body sense their environment, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today (Oct. 10).