World leaders will now stay overnight in Copenhagen and attempt to hammer out a deal which will save face - especially the American President's.
Steven Solomon | Posted 12.17.2009 | Books
Those committed to doing the planet's serious business should stay focused on one, often overlooked but trackable key factor of climate change--the pivotal role of water.
Jack Hidary | Posted 12.10.2009 | Comedy
The outspoken President of the soon-to-be-submerged Maldives, announced in Copenhagen that his country will bid for the Summer Olympics of 2024.
Johann Hari | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
The fever of denialism is natural. Climate change is so far outside our experience that is seems intuitively untrue, wrong, or even mad. I desperately wish the deniers were right.
Mother Jones | Rachel Morris | Posted 11.30.2009 | Green
This is the Tuvalu Christian Church, the heart of a migrant community from what may be the first country to be rendered unlivable by global warming....
Wade Norris | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green
Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique...
Bill Chameides | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
Someone tell me ... which is the real environmental news and which is fake?
AP | OLIVIA LANG | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
GIRIFUSHI, Maldives — Members of the Maldives' Cabinet donned scuba gear and used hand signals Saturday at an underwater meeting staged to highl...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
Small island nations have much at stake at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Maldives, along with other islands...
AP | BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Government ministers in scuba gear prepared Friday to hold an underwater meeting of the Maldives' Cabinet to highlight the ...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.15.2009 | Home
Worldfocus producer Megan Thompson is traveling the globe to report on the effects of climate change on small island nations. Megan will tak...
Wade Norris | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver
There is a growing group of people in our world who are in a legal limbo: environmental refugees. And this problem is only going to get bigger as time goes on.
AP | BHARATHA MALLWARACHI | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Maldives government ministers are taking scuba lessons and learning underwater signs in preparation for an unprecedented Ca...
Betsy Taylor | Posted 11.29.2009 | Green
We must protect ourselves against the dark vision of rising seas and temperatures, but not by numbly going through the motions with our actions and alerts. The times call for more risk-taking.
The Independent | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
By Andrew Buncombe | The Independent Almost 150 women living in the Maldives face a public flogging for indulging in extra-marital sex after being co...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 07.16.2009 | Home
Members of the International Monetary Fund meet with officials in the Maldives. The battle over America's pledge of new funds to the Internat...
Dygest.net Green | Dygest.net | Posted 03.17.2009 | Home
Making an entire country or U.S. state carbon neutral would "rock the world," at least according to President Bill Clinton. The Maldives, which yeste...
Beth Arnold | Posted 03.15.2009 | Style
There's something truly luxurious about someone handling our body's mules with velvety care and attention.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.09.2009 | World
The triumph of democracy in the Maldive Islands should be counted as yet another example of the power of civil resistance to create a government by the people, for the people.
NY Post | Posted 09.25.2008 | Entertainment
CAMERON Diaz and Jennifer Aniston traded boyfriends, and Diaz made the better deal. She's having more fun with Aniston's ex, Paul Sculfor, than Anisto...
Just Jared | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Penelope Cruz finds love in the arms of Spanish actor Javier Bardem, spending a romantic few days in the Republic of Maldives (in the Indian Ocean) ea...
Jerry Cope | Posted 12.18.2009 | Green