By Shaun Courtney Mayor Vincent Gray asked the National Park Service to remove the Occupy DC encampment, citing health concerns because of a rat infestation.
Twice over the past week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has charged that the Palestinian Authority is the main obstacle to peace, first because of its refusal to negotiation without preconditions and second due to its ongoing refusal to ...
According to statement released by PMO, Jerusalem Post editor Steve Linde's remarks to a conference in Tel Aviv were a misrepresentation of the meeting with Netanyahu. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has denied telling the editor of the Jerusalem ...
The deaths of tens of thousands of people during the drought in east Africa could have been avoided if the international community, donor governments and humanitarian agencies had responded earlier and more swiftly to clear warning signs that a ...
The chairman of Journalists Environmental Association of Tanzania (JET), Deodatus Mfugale told BusinessWeek recently that the Durban CoP 17 conference on climate change lat last year failed to resolve on whether carbon funds should flow through the ...
The boom in drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale and other similar formations will likely suppress the development of alternative energies that are urgently needed to combat global warming, according to a new study by researchers at the ...
And there they will find conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats working together to try to minimise the threat of global warming. Four neighbouring counties, spanning the political spectrum - Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach, ...
It's official: California is a land of bunny-huggers. For the third year in a row, California has earned higher marks than any other state in a survey that looks at everything from the treatment of farm animals to the keeping of pet bears.
By Joe McDonald, AP BEIJING - The World Bank warned Wednesday of a possible slump in global economic growth and urged developing countries to prepare for shocks that could be more severe than the 2008 crisis.
By Neela Banerjee and Christi Parsons Washington Bureau The Obama administration has decided that it will not issue a permit before Feb. 21 for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, according to people with knowledge of the decision.
George Bernard Shaw: “I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.” SL, too.
That's when former Utah governor Jon Huntsman told Time Magazine why he “believed” in climate change. “If 90 percent of the oncological community said something was causing cancer we'd listen to them,” he said.
TEHRAN, Iran - US President Barack Obama has called for direct talks with Iran in a secret letter to the Islamic Republic's supreme leader that also warned Tehran against closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a conservative Iranian lawmaker was ...
By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author Intel science competition semifinalist Samantha Garvey has been invited to attend US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. Garvey, whose tale of academic excellence in the face of ...
Eight years ago, in a speech that catapulted Barack Obama into the spotlight of American politics, the young aspirant senator for Illinois brought the Democratic convention to its feet with this rousing declaration: “There is not a liberal America and ...
By Michele Angermiller/For The Times PRINCETON -- To some, the subject of global warming is a recent phenomenon, but Princeton University physicist Issac Held has been researching it since the '70s.
By Chris Buckley | BEIJING (Reuters) - Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, says the government's latest assessment of climate change, projecting big shifts in ...