Michael Shank | Posted 12.19.2011
This week's announcement that climate change is shrinking plant and animal species and is likely to have a negative impact on human nutrition in the f...
Ambassador Marlene Moses | Posted 09.23.2011
Climate change has transformed the world we live in. It is as big a threat to peace and security as nuclear proliferation or global terrorism. It brings hunger and disease, drought and deluge; in its wake will come the spread of deserts and a tide of refugees.
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011
In the heat of the day, with the very best crew, Sir Branson was flying quite far from the ground, when he heard a distinct, but a very small sound...
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.25.2011
The 2007 increase in the minimum wage was a modest boost for America's low-wage labor force, but it's making a far bigger splash in the Pacific Ocean, on two remote outposts of the American empire.
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
For a country with a pacifist constitution, Japan is bristling with weaponry. Indeed, that Asian land has long functioned as a huge aircraft carrier and naval base for U.S. military power.
AP | RAY LILLEY | Posted 05.25.2011
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced Wednesday it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have langu...
Tony Wu | Posted 01.09.2012