On a humid afternoon in Sungai Tohor, a coastal village in Sumatra's Riau province, 50 or so men are packed into a town-hall conference room. They sit in neat rows of blue plastic chairs, many clad in knee-high rubber boots, loose-fitting polo shirts, and baggy pants--the casual uniform of an...

Comprehensive climate and energy legislation is dead in the U.S. Congress. Now the network of Koch Industries-funded groups that played a central role in its defeat have entered the political fray on the state and regional level, taking aim at a regional cap-and-trade system on the East Coast and the...

It was clear from the opening moments of the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which took place in Tiquipaya, Bolivia, a small agricultural village just outside of Cochabamba, April 19-22, who and what the estimated 30,000 participants held to blame for the warming...

The Bolivian government detailed today a broad plan for future international climate change negotiations and how governments and social movements might work together to push for climate justice internationally.

Bolivian President Evo Morales opened the People's World Conference on Climate Change this morning, strongly condemning capitalism and calling for...

International climate change negotiations will take a significant turn this week when environmental justice and indigenous rights organizations from 150 nations join government representatives and several heads of state for the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.

Bolivian President Evo Morales, who proposed...

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The Unemployment Story No One Notices

Juanita Borden, 39 and jobless, patiently waits as her résumé methodically works its way, line by line, through a fax machine at a state-run job center in downtown Philadelphia. Lying open before her on a round conference table...