If everything goes as planned, Angie Nordstrum's son may look out the window of his second-grade classroom at Red Hawk Elementary this fall and see a full-scalenatural gasdrilling operation. He and his classmates, Nordstrum noted, will then have no...
(RTTNews.com) - A new study for Strategy Analytics has revealed that the semiconductor industry solar energy sector is continuing to grow despite a recent spat of bad press.
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- On April 3, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Institute for the Future (IFTF) will join forces with people across the globe and ask them to help solve global poverty through an interactive ...
By Susan Blumenthal, MD Safe and sustainable drinking water is essential for the health and economic well-being of the world's population, and yet 99 percent of the world's water supply is unsafe or unavailable to drink. Despite the challenges this ...
It is estimated that one-third of the world's population currently has latent tuberculosis [6]. Significant progress has been made in the fight against TB in recent decades.
A new method to make better use of vast amounts of data related to global geography, population and climate may help determine the relative importance of population increases vs. climate change. While several recent studies suggest that much of the ...
Saudi Arabia pumped its fossil ( nonreplenishible) aquifers dry, Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute notes. Riyadh harvested last year its last wheat crop.
Restoring the economy's natural support systems - reforesting the earth, protecting topsoil, restoring rangelands and fisheries, stabilizing water tables, and protecting biological diversity- would cost just $110 billion a year, says Lester Brown in ...
By Mail Today Reporter It took a nearly two-and-ahalf month-long hunger strike by an aging environmentalist to stir the government into action on the crucial issue of Ganga's conservation.
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. - Mar 22, 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at a UN Human Rights Council decision to investigate Jewish settlements, calling it “hypocritical” and detached from reality.
Members of the Palestinian community in Colombia demonstrate against Colombia's position of not to vote the recognition of a Palestine statehood by the UN, at Bolivar Square in Bogota on October 11, 2011. (CAICEDO/AFP/Getty Images) JERUSALEM -- An ...
A Palestinian child was wounded in the face by a rubber-coated metal bullet fired by Israeli soldiers who attacked nonviolent protesters against the Wall and Settlements in Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah; a second child ...
Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton asked for EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's attention in his opening statement at a Feb. 28 House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, berated her and held her to account.
Deforestation has become a huge problem in Africa, with some reports saying that the continent is loosing forests four times faster than any other part of the world.
WITH the end of the rainy season approaching, it is time to take stock of what we, as individuals, have done to help curb deforestation that is threatening to wipe out trees in most parts of the country. Although under serious threat from human ...
Due to the loss of 88638 hectares of forest cover annually, the National Forest Authority (NFA) pioneered CFM in 2007 with the hope that the system would reduce deforestation in protected areas. Under the system, local communities were allowed limited ...
WASHINGTON - As Afghanistan seizes more of the political spotlight, the Republican presidential candidates are quick to criticize President Barack Obama's handling of the war but struggle to explain how they would change the strategy they would ...
The decrease in snowfall was among several grim impacts that climate change could have on the Bay Area if current carbon emissions go unabated, USGS climate change coordinator Tom Suchanek said in a lecture called "Projected Climate Change Impacts in ...
Pro-gay-marriage protesters demonstrate outside a 2011 Obama fundraiser in New York. Reuters For those wanting to understand why the political deliberation over gay marriage is such a sensitive subject for this White House, look no further than the ...
“Over my dead body would I vote for Barack Obama,” Santorum said to applause at a rally at Louisiana College. Santorum accused the Romney campaign of engaging in a “ridiculous canard” by suggesting he'd vote for the president over a Republican ...