Living coral reefs may no longer exist by the time our grandchildren reach maturity, before the end of this century. "We've wiped out a lot of species over the years. This will be the first time we've actually eliminated an entire ecosystem," laments ecologist Peter F Sale, in Our Dying...

Long before Rambo, there was Rimbaud.

In fact, the poet Arthur Rimbaud can be seen as a kind of anti-Rambo: a literary child prodigy, army deserter, and blue-eyed French fop who was up for adventure tourism some two centuries before annual swarms of young backpackers would dare to go...

If you've been assuming that 21st century agronomists would be able to fine tune the Green Revolution and stave off world hunger, think again.

The Coming Famine, a sobering book by Julian Cribb, a veteran Australian science writer, warns that global food security...

Why shoot down American bullet trains?

Federal plans to invest billions of dollars in a vast high-speed rail network are aggravating many right wing politicians, who refuse to be railroaded into support. As a focus of political division, high speed rail is gathering pace across the country. Conservative...

The Gaza strip must cope with a drug shortage, even though Israeli and Egyptian officials talk about easing the blockade that has left this crowded enclave effectively isolated since July 2007. A political rift between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank hinders communication and coordination between the...

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows," the singer Bob Dylan once rasped. But a little guidance wouldn't hurt the growing portion of US voters who confuse the weather with the climate. A cold snap inevitably brings out the global warming deniers, and this should...

"Don't touch my junk" has a corollary: don't zap my gonads with radiation, either.

Americans on the go are increasingly upset about the intrusiveness of pre-boarding security checks at their airports, whether by full-body scanner or an enhanced pat-down. Perhaps lessons can...

California is bracing for a battle over Proposition 23. Bankrolled mostly by two Texas oil companies, Valero and Tesoro, this controversial measure on the November ballot would suspend the state's groundbreaking global warming laws before they go into effect and "terminate" the green legacy of Governor Arnold Schwarzegger....

Mexico's first crop of genetically modified maize - due to be harvested later this month - is stoking anxiety about the risks of biotechnology. Chinese environmentalists, concerned about the potential effects of gene-spliced rice in the world's rice bowl, now look to Mexico as a test-case of how to counter...

In California, rusting U.S. navy ships that were poisoning bay waters for decades are being cleaned up, moved and recycled -- thanks to a legal victory by local environmental groups.

It's clear that the health risks from a fleet of decrepit U.S. navy troop ships and tankers, moored for nearly...

Initially, I was reluctant to pick up Stephanie Saldana's stunning new book, The Bread of Angels, because of its twee title and all the blurbs likening it to that irritatingly neurotic travelogue, Eat, Pray, Love.

But once I started reading, I couldn't put this...

Tiger farming advocates say that legally selling body parts of the big cat could thwart the poachers. The profits for selling tiger bone wine to China's nouveau riche are so vast that now African lions are killed and smuggled into China in order to supply "mock tiger" for the...

Fifty flying rabbis recently took to the sky in an aircraft, blowing on sacred ram's horns in an effort to purge swine flu from the airspace over Zion. And now Lady Gaga has arrived in Israel, wearing a spiked Star of David on her black leather fetish gear. Truth...

Swine flu cases breaking out inside Israel? Sure, it's possible. An Israeli man, age 26, who had recently visited Mexico, has been hospitalized in Netanya, in the north of the...

Right on cue for the inauguration, Israelis are starting to warm to the new leader of the free world. I spotted this harbinger of Pizza in the Middle East by the brash Jerusalem blogger, Israelity bites.

They deliver. And hope the new American President...

JERUSALEM --- Conservatives the world over are getting nervous as November 4th draws nigh.

A last-ditch attempt by the Israeli hawks to trash Barack Obama has appeared in the respected daily Haaretz, which has been noticeably tilting right in the past few months. An anonymously sourced news...

JERUSALEM -- Ardent grassroots Obama-supporters from Israel are out to convince Jewish voters in the United States that the Democratic candidate would be a welcome change in the troubled Middle East.

Israelis across the political spectrum, from leftwing actors to retired spy chiefs and generals, are challenging...

While the American media obsess about whether Alaska Governor and aerial wolf-sniper Sarah Palin is ready for prime time and national office, many Israeli political buffs have been scrutinizing the 2008 vice presidential candidates in light of foreign policy issues.

Today, Sen. Joe Biden's photo was splashed on the front...

The anti-Obama rhetoric of the first stages of the McCain-Obama race has been laced with falsehoods, unfair innuendos, and sneaky appeals to religious fundamentalists. One of the worst examples is Dr. Jerome Corsi's abominable snow job on Barack Obama: his book "The Obama Nation." Unfortunately this fallacious book seems to...

JERUSALEM -- In the wake of the evangelical Saddleback presidential faith forum and just as the veepstakes heat up for the Republican campaign, 2008 presidential candidate ex-Arkansas governor and Baptist minister with a grin Mike Huckabee turned up for his tenth trip to the Holy Land. The timely invitation came...