ON SEPTEMBER 9th, at the height of its summertime shrinkage, ice covered 4.33m square km, or 1.67m square miles, of the Arctic Ocean, according to America’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC).
Jorge Madrid, in a HuffPost repost A major report released jointly this week by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Latino Coalition on Climate Change, the Center for American Progress and the National Wildlife Federation finds that nearly one in two Latinos live in areas where breat...
Perhaps most disappointing is that President Obama, who felt that achieving an Israel-Palestine two state deal was of such strategic significance to the United States that he made it one of the very first out-of-the gate priorities of his administration, has not only offered nothing new to break the...
LONDON (Reuters) - New research, to be published in the journal Climatic Change in November, suggests humankind may have to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere on a vast scale if emissions
If global warming continues as expected, it is estimated that almost a third of all flora and fauna species worldwide could become extinct. Scientists … discovered that the proportion of actual biodiversity loss should quite clearly be revised upwards: by 2080, more than 80% of genetic diversity wit...
Propelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United Statealities in U.S., data shows, a Times analysis of government data has found.
(AP) â A committee within the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (USA) says the denomination should dump investments in three American companies it says profit from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A report from the denomination's Committee on Mission Responsibility Through Investment says Cate...
So few public figures who are not scientists or environmentalists speak out on climate change these days that it is noteworthy when one does. MSNBC’s Martin Bashir show had a segment a few weeks ago on “The political legacy of Hurricane Irene” with historian Douglas Brinkley, author of “The Great D...
The condemned in Georgia always have a long and tortuous journey to the execution chamber. But the case of Troy Anthony Davis, whose execution is set for Wednesday, has been perhaps the most extraordinary and controversial legal odyssey in the state’s history.
This year's sea ice levels are among the lowest in recorded history. So for the fourth year in a row, thousands of walruses have returned to shore in search of food.
Norman Gary Finkelstein, an American-Jewish political scientist who is highly critical of Israeli policy in the Middle East and banned from entering Israel for security reasons, has slammed the UN's recently released Palmer report on the Gaza flotilla attack describing it as a “mixture of legal frau...
World food prices remained virtually unchanged between July and August 2011 according to the FAO Food Price Index published today. The Index averaged 231 points last month compared to 232 points in July. It was 26 percent higher than in August 2010 but seven points below its all-time high of 238 poi...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama's ratings have plunged at home but he remains highly popular in Europe, with 75 per cent in 12 EU nations approving his handling of global affairs, a poll has