By mike corder AP THE HAGUE, Netherlands • Thousands of children suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions over the past 65 years, and church officials knew about the abuse but failed to stop it or help victims because they feared sparking ...
By Kevin Riggs Youths from more than 40 nations gather at the entrance of the Aztec event center demonstrating against global warming, on December 10, 2010, the closing day of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-16) held in ...
As a result, consumption of contaminated fish is now the main source of human exposure to mercury, according to a recently released report by the public interest group Environment America. The coal industry and its friends in Congress argue that the ...
As a result, consumption of contaminated fish is now the main source of human exposure to mercury, according to a recently released report by the public interest group Environment America. The coal industry and its friends in Congress argue that the ...
BEIJING - A man from a southern Chinese fishing village whose death in police custody helped spark a rare revolt was given a hero's farewell Friday as thousands of tearful residents mourned what they called his sacrifice for them.
Naim Ateek is a Palestinian Christian who became a refugee in 1948 and he founded SABEEL after the first Palestinian intifada [translates to: rise up and cast off] that erupted on December 9, 1987. The theology of SABEEL rose out of the oppression of ...
By Julie Bykowicz and Mark Drajem - Fri Dec 16 05:01:50 GMT 2011 As President Barack Obama toured an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers training center in Pennsylvania on Oct. 11, two television commercials made their debuts on local ...
By Bryan Walsh | @bryanrwalsh | December 16, 2011 | + AP A coal plant in Thompson, Texas. New rules from the EPA will force reductions in mercury pollution, which will hit coal plants hard.
And if you think Obama's request for it back was awkward, remember what JFK did after we lost a spy plane. By Dan Murphy, Staff writer / December 15, 2011 This photo released on Dec. 8, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and taken at an undisclosed ...
By Tanya Somanader on Dec 15, 2011 at 4:27 pm House Republicans waged systematic war against the environment this year, attacking environmental protection through climate denial, oil drilling, weakening public lands and water protection, ...
The vandalism appeared to be the latest act of defiance by militant settlers whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to rein in after similar attacks on mosques and vandalism at an Israeli military base. In the village of Burqa, ...
By Chi-Chi Zhang, CNN Beijing (CNN) -- A stand-off between thousands of villagers and authorities in southern China continued Thursday, amid protests over illegal land seizures.
By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY Foreign Minister Oessur Skarphedinsson's announcement makes Iceland one of the first Western European countries to recognize Palestine. "This is the day I formally submit to you the declaration of Palestine independence ...
Brazil's federal prosecutors have filed suit against Chevron and Transocean for R$20bn ($10.6bn) in damages and demanded that both companies shut their operations in the country, in the strongest response yet to an oil ...
The St. Columbanus Church food pantry in Chicago feeds 500 households a week, but some weeks it struggles to keep up with demand. (CBS) WASHINGTON - Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans - nearly 1 in 2 - have fallen into ...
James E. Hanson The head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James E. Hansen, announced the results of break through global warming research last week.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in 2009. There is no mention of wiping Israel off the map; for the overwhelming majority of Arab elites Israel is a fact of life with which they are coming to terms ...
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister said Wednesday that President Barack Obama impressed her as a “good person” through his acknowledgment of attendants and security staff during his recent visit to Australia.
WASHINGTON - The number of young adults lacking medical coverage has shrunk by 2.5 million since the new health care overhaul law took effect, according to a new analysis the Obama administration is to release Wednesday. That drop is 2½ times as large ...
Instead of putting anti-environment policies up for debate as stand-alone bills, they're trying to bypass scrutiny by sticking them into other pieces of legislation -- like appropriations bills -- that have to pass to keep key services or pet programs ...
The total amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is calculated to be greater than the overall quantity of carbon locked up in global coal reserves so there is intense interest in the stability of these deposits as the polar region warms at a ...
Myanmar authorities on Tuesday gave the green light to Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition to rejoin mainstream politics, setting the scene for the Nobel laureate to run for a seat in the new parliament.
In deep water, methane gas oxidizes into carbon dioxide before it reaches the surface. In the shallows of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, methane simply doesn't have enough time to oxidize, which means more of it escapes into the atmosphere.
The absence of a global legally binding agreement on climate change, along with a rethink on nuclear energy, risks a failure to arrest catastrophic temperature rises, the International Energy Authority's chief economist says.