The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
They're creating innovative new ways for women - and men - to lift themselves out of poverty. By Kyla Springer, Global Envision / March 13, 2012 CEO and founder of Samasource Leila Janah takes part in a session during the Clinton Global Initiative in ...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has said food output must rise 70 percent by 2050 to feed a world population expected to grow to 9.3 billion from 7 billion now and as increasingly rich consumers in developing economies eat more meat.
The discussion at the 6th annual Water Forum in Marseilles has been focused on claims that the world's water supply is being strained by climate change and population growth. A boy fishes with a net in the lagoon in Ganvie, near Cotonou, Benin.
Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute points to the potential impact on female empowerment of access to family planning services: "There are 215 million women in the world today who want to plan their familes but who do not have access ...
We don't have a choice -- we cannot let this destruction continue. Join us, for an evening with Bill Mckibben, activist, educator and author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Touch New Planet, a New York Times best-seller.
Former Vice President Al Gore and online entrepreneur Sean Parker gave an overflow crowd at the South by Southwest trade show a pep talk Monday on the need to reform the political system, which Gore said is dominated by corporate interests.
After six days without food, dozens of farmworkers and supporters in Florida ended their week-long hunger strike outside the entrance of the Publix Supermarket Corporate Headquarters in Lakeland on Saturday.
Student activist Sidharth Sharma, who had been on hunger strike for the last 13 days, protesting against fees charged from reserved category students, called off his strike on Monday evening.
Mandujano announced the hunger strike last Tuesday when the board voted to send layoff notices that would allow the district to cut 52 positions -- eliminating sports and trimming music, librarians and counselors -- if state voters reject proposed tax ...
Tuesday, 13 March 2012 UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Meets Tibetan Hunger Strikers VOA Tibetan United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights met with the three Tibetan hunger strikers, who are entering their 20th day of ...
However, I was quite amazed at this work, and found it an excellent read in its own right, as well as a wonderful source and resource book on Palestine and questions related to Palestine. It is a user-friendly composite of history, ...
By Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Americans aren't in love with super PACs, the new independent groups that are transforming the 2012 presidential election.
An oil and gas industry trade association asked a federal appeals court to review a US Environmental Protection Agency regulation governing fuel additives including biological materials.
By Mike Desouza, Postmedia News March 12, 2012 9:00 PM Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent refuses to comment on revelations that climate-change skeptics in Canada are get-ting money from an American think-tank funded by corporations.